What we run

Workshops that
build skills.

Free, hands-on, and led by people who do the work. Each session is built to be practical, playful, and genuinely useful. No lectures, just doing.

Intro to Coding✶Design & Branding✶Public Speaking✶Money & Finance✶Résumé Lab✶Interview Prep✶Entrepreneurship✶Career Discovery✶

What we offer

We started by teaching Business, Healthcare, and STEM in our 5-day workshops. But after deep analysis, we realized it still wasn’t fully matching our vision: helping students explore their interests and leave thinking “I am someone who loves to talk” or “I am someone who loves to build,” not “I want to be a doctor.”

We didn’t want to rush students to an end goal, because that comes automatically once you understand who you are. So this year, we’re shifting to a new approach.

Student presenting a computer science workshop

Workshops

4-day discovery workshops

Our workshops are now 4 days, designed to give students space to explore what they like, reconnect with what they already love, and discover things entirely new to them through fun, tested activities. The final day closes with reflection and detailed guest-speaker sessions featuring professionals and student leaders who explain their work, education, daily responsibilities, turning points, and honest advice. Held during summer breaks, school breaks, and long weekends—and always completely free of cost.

4 daysHands-on activitiesReflection + seminars

School year

Semester classes

During the school year, we host semester-long classes taught by high school students who are also deeply invested in exploring their own career paths. Courses span Business, Medicine, Engineering, Cosmetics, Public Speaking, Psychology, Fine Arts, and more. Each semester includes 5 in-person classes, 1 session with a working professional, and one field trip to an actual company.

5 in-person classesPro sessionCompany field trip

Real people, real pathways

Guest speakers who make
careers feel real.

Students do more than hear a job title. Speakers share what their work actually looks like, what they studied, what surprised them, and the choices that shaped their path. Sessions include time for student questions and practical next steps.

Hospitality & tourism

Vishal Singh

A Cornell Hotel School of Management graduate who introduced students to hospitality, service, operations, and the many careers that shape a guest’s experience.

Computer science

Shashish Vasireddi

A Harvard OpenBio Program biomedical researcher who showed students how hardware, software, computing, science, and medicine connect.

Music production

Aarushi Dinakar

A student music producer who opened up the creative and technical sides of making music—from choosing sounds to shaping an idea into a finished track.

Live Q&A

Neurology

Arush Vikram

An American Heart Association ambassador who made medicine approachable through stories and student questions.

Radiology

Krithikram Parthipan

An American Red Cross club founder who explored the people, technology, and decisions behind medical imaging.

Workshops we’ve run

A look back at the rooms we have filled, the activities we have built,
and the faces that make this work worth it.

Workshop 1

Thanksgiving Break

November 2025 · 5 days · 100+ students

CTC's inaugural workshop ran across the full Thanksgiving break, 20 students per day over 5 days. Students rotated through hands-on activities built around business fundamentals, healthcare exploration, and STEM challenges, all designed to spark curiosity rather than push a career decision. Each day closed with a group reflection where students shared what surprised them about themselves.

Workshop 2

Winter Break

December 2025 · 5 days · 100+ students

Building on Thanksgiving, the Winter Break workshop expanded the curriculum with refined activities based on direct student feedback from round one. New sessions were introduced around teamwork dynamics and creative problem-solving, and the final day featured a live seminar with a real-world professional sharing their own non-linear career story.

Workshop 3

Fall Break

Fall 2025 · 5 days · 100+ students

The Fall Break workshop introduced the early version of the PATHFINDER activity, giving students a structured but playful way to map their interests across different fields. Counselors who had connected with CTC during the summer outreach phase observed sessions and provided feedback that directly shaped the curriculum going forward.

Inside the room