2024 Hartford Youth Data Fellowship Open for Applications!
The Hartford Data Collaborative has opened its application for Hartford youth to join HDC starting in January 2024. The Hartford Youth Data Fellowship is a 5-month data training and community-based project development program for Hartford students as part of the Hartford Data Collaborative. The program is designed to increase data literacy and analysis skills for high school seniors and college students and improve their confidence in interpreting data and sharing their insights with others. These skills and experiences will serve youth in their college and career explorations and provide an analytic foundation for youth interested in using data to make an impact in the Hartford community.
Hartford Youth Data Fellows will serve as co-researchers on a data project using training from data workshops, discussions with other Fellows, and collaboration with CTData staff. The final project will be presented through a Data Walk with community officials, posted on the CTData website, and can be shared in a portfolio for college, internship, or job applications.
What Training Will Youth Receive?
Through this program, Hartford Youth Data Fellows will learn how to:
Identify public and private data sources for research
Analyze data to answer research questions
Review the data life cycle
Describe data insights connected to experiences as a youth in Hartford
Develop data stories and visual data projects
Present their findings to community and city/state leaders
What is the time commitment and compensation?
The fellowship runs from January through June 2023. Fellows will meet one afternoon a week and are expected to plan additional time to work on their projects each week. The time commitment is about 10-15 hours/month. Youth will receive a stipend of up to $1500 for completing the entire program.
Where is the fellowship held?
This is an onsite program held at the Hartford Public Library- Park Street branch once a week after school. We will also have one on one and small group meetings at the library and at other locations in Hartford.
Who can apply?
Youth who live in Hartford enrolled in school or college, ages 17-24. You must be a senior in high school or have completed high school. The program is designed for youth from Hartford, who live in and understand the conditions of Hartford neighborhoods.
What types of data projects will youth fellows work on?
Fellows will break into project teams to work on data projects developed with the Hartford Data Collaborative on social issues facing Hartford youth and the community. The projects are designed to inform the Hartford community and will be shared with city and community organizations. Here is a link to prior data projects.
How to apply?
If you know of a youth you think would be a good fit for this program, please encourage them to apply using this form. The deadline for applications is January 15, 2024.
For additional information, contact Kate Eikel keikel@ctdata.org, Director of the Hartford Youth Data Fellowship
For More Information
Hartford Youth Data Fellows create community-based data projects through a paid fellowship with the Hartford Data Collaborative. To read more about their work and see the full data projects, click here. If you are interested in learning more about Hartford Data Collaborative, click here. To review more Hartford data projects by CTData, click here. You can keep up with us by subscribing to the CTData newsletter and following us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.