Youth

They aren’t old enough to drive across a bridge, but that didn’t deter Lafayette Elementary School fourth and fifth-graders from donning hard hats and safety vests and learning how to build one...

Two MTC-sponsored climate initiatives, the Youth for the Environment and Sustainability (YES) Conference and Bay Area Bike Share, were among were among the feted at BREATHE California’s awards...

Samantha Sipin, about to begin her junior year at UC Davis, parlayed her experience in MTC’s high school internship program into a couple of plum part-time jobs as she works her way through college....

Their peers may spend the summer diving into swimming pools, but MTC's 42 high school interns will use theirs to dive headfirst into the Bay Area's vast and complex transportation network. Each year...

The Bay Area’s newest BikeMobile is on the move, out to fix bicycles in five different counties during the first week of August alone. From a farm in Sonoma County to libraries in Contra Costa and...

Armed with PowerPoint presentations, and flexing their budding public speaking skills, MTC’s high school interns competed last week to convey their summer experiences in the most creative and...

The Aquarium of the Bay is offering free workshops for teachers from all nine Bay Area counties as part of the BayMobile project, which is funded by the Spare the Air Youth Program. The workshops are...

At a free cycling festival at Antioch High School on Oct. 23, the Bay Area BikeMobile rolled onto campus, stuffed with spare parts such as chains, tires, brake cables, pads and calipers, seats and...

Teenagers in Marin, Sonoma and Napa Counties love public transit. But don't take our word for it. Armed with Go-Pro cameras supplied by MTC, youths in these three areas took videos of their own...

UPDATE February 4, 2015…There’s still room at the YES Conference – Youth for the Environment and Sustainability — set for this Saturday, February 7, at MTC’s Oakland offices, starting at 9:30 a.m. It...