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Join curaJOY’s selective 2025 Summer Impact Fellowship — where students design AI-powered solutions to cyberbullying, self-harm, and emotional distress.
Opportunity Details
The curaJOY Summer Impact Fellowship empowers youth to build real-world AI and social good projects that improve digital safety and wellness while gaining career-ready skills and publication opportunities.
Since 2022, curaJOY’s year-round Youth Ambassadors and Joymakers have completed more than 40 software and community projects. Seventy percent of alumni who applied to internships were hired by companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, EA and the UN. The Summer Impact Fellowship distills those best practices into a competitive, 7-week paid program—making this Founding Cohort both new and built on a proven talent pipeline, intended for high-caliber youth who are committed to showcasing their technical and leadership capacity.
What You’ll Gain
Career Skills
Build React dashboards, design APIs, and deploy with AWS CDK
Operate real-world data labeling & ML retraining workflows
Earn DataCamp Premium seat + UserTesting certification
Admissions Edge
Mentorship from university faculty and industry experts
Fellows co-develop tools and content that will be used by students, caregivers, and educators nationwide
Guidance towards publication, abstract submission and additional grant funding support.
Public Impact
Hands-on experience in research and using AI to reduce cyber-bullying, negative self-talk, and self-harm on Discord and social media
Create the first youth-annotated, multi-platform “online-harm + emotion” dataset
Program Cohort
Tech Cohort
AI Safety Dashboard (React + Node + AWS): Fellows audit and retrain our detector for cyber-bullying, negative self-talk, and self-harm.
AI Coach: Respond to online harm with a breathing prompt, positive reframe, or resource link seconds after low-risk harm is flagged.
Outcome: open-source code + live demo
Research Cohort
Tapestry of Emotions Dataset:15 000 multi-platform posts labeled for bullying/self-harm + emotion; dual-pass QA.
Impact Mini-Campaign: 8 IG posts, 150 teen surveys, 1-page infographic of results.
Outcome: The first open dataset created by and on Gen Z to study cyber-bullying, self-harm, and negative self-talk across TikTok, Discord, and Instagram + impact snapshot
The program is completely free. They do not charge any tuition or fees, and all selected fellows receive a stipend of $1,250.
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