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The 2023 SPARK Application is LIVE - Apply by June 1, 2023!

 

SPARK is an immersive, paid, six-week public service program for incoming first-year students that deepens community connections between home and Harvard!  Students develop a public service project at home while receiving funding and ongoing support from Harvard staff, faculty, and student leaders.  We launched SPARK in 2019 as a call to action that creates greater awareness of public service pathways at Harvard College.

Through SPARK, students will have access to personal and professional development resources from the Harvard community while they work to design a public service project at home.  Harvard College offers a variety of pathways to explore public service work and all incoming first-year applicants will be invited to participate in a series of discussions led by civically minded faculty, staff, and student leaders.  

Benefits:

  • Contribute to your hometown community
  • Learn to solve a social problem
  • Deepen your commitment to developing a public purpose for your life
  • Join the Harvard community of civic-minded students, faculty, and staff
  • Begin to make professional connections
  • Earn a $2,000 stipend

Join SPARK staff and application readers for weekly office hours!  SPARK staff host weekly, virtual office hours to get to know you, connect you with potential organizations for your SPARK project, and answer questions about the program. SPARK office hours will start on May 4, 2023. Click the date below to register. You are welcome to attend as many sessions as you'd like and you do not need to stay the entire time:

Can't attend office hours? Check out this link to post your questions anonymously and read other Q&A from incoming first-years interested in SPARK. 

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