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YouthTank is an opportunity gateway for young people to thrive in Detroit’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, earn while they learn marketable design and tech innovation skills, and build professional relationships and confidence that drive upward economic mobility, as they contribute to real world outcomes and feed the talent pipeline to Detroit's economic growth and community prosperity.

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Detroit is a city you can make anything.

YouthTank came to Detroit to make education better.

And that's what entrepreneurship is all about.

                       Better.
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CORE VALUES & PROGRAMS

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Call it our slogan, maxim, a cultural value - at YouthTank Detroit, it's ride or die. As co-founders, board members, program designers, interns, teachers, learners, and fundraisers - young entrepreneurs are always in YouthTank's driver’s seat.

FOR YOUTH BY YOUTH 

OUR STORY

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Veteran educator and entrepreneur, Holly Arida, set out to prove her high school students were ready to launch and lead an actual startup. Together, they co-founded YouthTank Detroit, a 501(c)(3) business incubator. In YouthTank's after-school and summer programs, expert mentors empower young entrepreneurs to apply design, technological tools, and business innovation to chart their own future and impact their communities.

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