UPCD High School Program · Internships

Bike Towns, Bluebikes, and Streets Cabinet Internships

Through the City of Boston Streets Cabinet internship experience, high school students move from classroom learning to field-based planning work.

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Overview

The internship phase introduces students to transportation planning, bike safety, active transportation, community engagement, and public-sector implementation.

Bike Towns

Pop-up learning spaces

Students support temporary Bike Town activities that help youth learn bicycle rules, safe riding practices, and confidence.

Bluebikes

Customer intercept surveys

Students observe and document how people use bike-share systems and identify barriers to access.

Field work

Streets as planning classrooms

Students connect transportation concepts to the built environment through observations, inventories, surveys, and public engagement.

Internship gallery

Photos from Bike Towns, Bluebikes fieldwork, student posters, and streets-based planning activities.

Students with bicycles at a Bike Town activity — Students participating in Bike Town activities.

Student conducting Bluebikes fieldwork — Bluebikes customer intercept and field observation work.

Students setting up a Bike Town activity — Students help build a temporary active transportation learning environment.

Student internship posters — Student posters documenting findings and recommendations.

Students during a campus field tour — Field-based learning links public space, campus design, and planning practice.

Students presenting community outreach work — Students translate fieldwork into public presentations.