In April, YPP participated in an historic gathering with veteran civil rights leaders to celebrate the founding of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). Fifty years ago Ella Baker organized the meeting that led to the birth of SNCC.  YPP was able to use  this historic occasion to bring YPP students and staff together from around the country to introduce ourselves to the community whose work and legacy we have inherited

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Project Overview

In December 2010, with support from the National Science Foundation (ITEST), YPP began a new initiative titled Bridging Math & Digital Media Literacy

Through this project high school are trained as computer programmers, and are then tasked with creating math based games for younger students and teaching them how to program their own games.

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Fifty years ago, the Freedom Riders—more than 400 Black and White, mostly young people—risked their lives and freedom to face down segregation in the Deep South. A powerful new Stanley Nelson film, “Freedom Riders,” chronicles their bold and dangerous journey riding commercial buses into Alabama and Mississippi challenging Jim Crow, while facing angry mobs, terrible beatings, fire bombings and imprisonment.

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We wish you all the best, and we hope that you and your family and friends have a wonderful and joyous holiday season and new year!

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