Ignite Curiosity & Escape a Summer of Boredom!
Get ready to ignite your summer with Summer Spark! Join us for a season filled with creativity, growth, and endless opportunities to shine bright. Together, let's spark curiosity, inspiration, and unforgettable memories as we embark on this exciting journey of learning and discovery.
Stay tuned for a Summer Spark 101 video, coming soon!
3 Ways to Get Involved
Get Started!
Summer Bucket List
Should you accept it, your challenge is to complete five activities in four categories, as a match! Our hope is that this will stretch your comfort zone and provide summer-long fun! You can print your bucket list at a local library for free. Need a copy? Ask Angela.
BONUS: Once you complete the Summer Bucket List challenge, email Candace Mitchell for free tickets to a summer activity of your choice. A few of the options include Elitch’s, Waterworld, Meow Wolf, and a paddleboard rental.
Summer Meetups
Hang out with other matches during one of our Group Meet Ups this summer. We have exciting plans for a college campus tour, office open house, a few workshops, and more!
Meet Ups are a unique way to meet other matches in your area and connect with Save Our Youth staff. Stay tuned: Signups are coming soon.
Summer Stipends
We want to help mentees invest in their interests and discover new ones! That’s why we have curated a list of enriching summer opportunities in the Denver Metro and beyond. Many offer scholarships. Plus, Save Our Youth will cover up to $100 of remaining fees.
Learn more and apply for a summer stipend below!
Level All
Level All is a unique and interactive component to our Skills 4 Success programming. It provides mentees with a personal roadmap to success via fun, easy to use, bite-size lessons.
The best part? We have put together a curated list specifically for matches to do together for Summer 2026! Once matches complete this “Journey,” we’ll send you a short feedback survey in exchange for a $20.
To get started, we recommend mentors make an account on behalf of their mentee (with login information they are comfortable sharing with their mentee). However, if a mentee is 13 or older, he/she can make their own account if preferred.
Make the account using the onboarding code: SOYUSER. Choose the grade level and demographics of the mentee, not mentor. Create Account
Get familiar with Level All by watching the intro video! Watch the Video
Click on the “Journey” tab at the top of your account to access the “Summer Spark” journey.
Over the summer, work through the lessons together as a match. You can break this up and spread it out however you want. When you and your mentee complete the Summer Spark Journey, let your Mentoring Specialist know; we’ll send a feedback survey in exchange for a $20 gift card!