About ExtracurricularHub

What is ExtracurricularHub?

ExtracurricularHub is a free discovery platform that helps high school students find extracurricular opportunities — competitions, internships, summer programs, scholarships, volunteering, clubs, and leadership experiences. We organize 1,900+ catalog entries in one searchable place, with cost, eligibility, deadlines, format, location, and where to apply on each.

What you can check

Each statement below links to the page where you can check it.

  • The catalog lists 1,900+ published programs. The figure is rounded down from the live catalog, so it can understate the count but never overstate it. Browse the catalog
  • 23 of our 56 comparison pages carry an in-depth section in which every fact is copied word for word from the program's own website: 754 dated facts from 33 official sites. A script confirmed each quote on its page before it was published, and our tests fail when any fact was last read more than 120 days ago. Program comparisons
  • Aggregate catalog statistics, each figure with the number of programs it was counted over, are published on the statistics page and as a CSV under CC BY 4.0. Statistics and CSV

Who it's for

  • High school students, freshmen through seniors, building a focused extracurricular profile for college applications.
  • Parents and counselors looking for one place to explore programs, deadlines, and pathways.
  • Universities, nonprofits, and companies offering opportunities to high schoolers who want to reach motivated students nationwide.
  • Teachers, club advisors, and mentors curating opportunity lists for their students.

What types of opportunities are listed

Why we exist

Information about high school opportunities is scattered across school bulletin boards, university websites, social media threads, and word of mouth. Students with strong networks tend to hear about more programs than students without those networks — a gap that has nothing to do with talent or motivation. ExtracurricularHub exists to close that gap by making opportunity information centralized, searchable, and free.

How opportunities are selected and organized

Programs are added by our editorial team and supplemented by direct submissions. Each listing identifies its title, taxonomy, organization, eligibility, deadline, location, format, cost, dates, and application destination wherever those details are available. A field we hold nothing for is left off rather than filled in. Our methodology sets out the rule for each field.

Editorial standards and corrections

Listing data publishes when an administrator or import job supplies a structurally valid record. The newest structurally valid enrichment is used automatically, while missing or unannounced details stay unknown. Anyone can report an error from a listing page or via contact.

Private import, source, model, and review metadata is removed from public responses. Aggregate catalog data is published on the statistics page, each figure with the denominator it was computed over.

Who runs ExtracurricularHub

ExtracurricularHub was founded by Parker, a high school student who built the tool he wished existed while researching programs himself, and is maintained with a small editorial team. That origin shapes the rules the site runs on: student discovery tools are free to use, every listing links the program's official site, and editorial decisions are made from the student's side of the table. Read a note from our founder.

How organizations can submit opportunities

Universities, nonprofits, companies, and program organizers can submit their high-school programs through our submission form. Submissions are reviewed by our editorial team before being added to the directory. There is no fee to be listed.