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Get Your FREE Youth ID to Live More, Play More!

Access special programs, trips, Teen Nights, and more with a Youth ID card, available FREE to residents ages six to 17. Learn more about Youth IDs and how to get one.

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In a darkened gymnasium with party lights, two young women roller skate while smiling and holding hands. There are some orange cones on the floor near them, marking the skating area.

Teen and Pre-Teen Nights

Summer Teen Center Logo

Summer Teen Center

Three teens pose in a room with a wooden floor. One gives peace signs with both hands.

Safe Summer and Teenfest

In a room, five teens in gardening gloves plant seedlings in soil in a container.

Student Service Learning Hours

In a gymnasium, seven young women in tiaras and large ball gowns walk across the floor in a line, escorted by young men in bowties and suspenders. Behind them, adults sit at banquet tables.

Mis Quince Program

A young woman wearing denim overalls and a white turtleneck holds a microphone in her right hand, smiling. Her left arm is raised as if waving.

Teen Vocal Showcase

Sixteen teens pose in the grass under tall trees. They wear matching orange t-shirts with a white logo.

Youth Advisory Council

Six young women smile while posing in the corner of a room, amid musical instruments and amps. They all wear black t-shirts that say YOUNG STARS on them.

Young Stars

Seven young women in black leotards and tights dance on a stage.

Junior Academy of the Performing Arts

On a darkened stage lit by a reddish spotlight, a young woman with short, curly hair sings into a hand-held microphone.

Teen Performance Ensemble

A young woman stands up from her seat in an audience, speaking into a handheld microphone. People sit in rows of blue chairs in front of her and behind her, in a large room.

Teen Arts Council

A man wearing a tan corduroy jacket and a red knit cap speaks into a handheld microphone. To his left is a man in a blue suit with a matching hat, red vest, and red pocket square.

Teen Arts Summit

Outside near a wooded area, a ranger wearing a green shirt and a wireless headset microphone holds a nest containing a large blue bird over the head of a small child in a yellow tank top.

Nature Quest Art Contest

Three large, framed and matted artworks sit on easels in a room next to a white cinderblock wall with two large windows. A young woman wearing glasses poses with the painting on the far right.

Youth Arts Corps

Several dozen people in formalwear pose on the landing of a large stairwell under a chandelier. The young women wear white gowns and tiaras; the young men wear tuxedos.

M-NCPPC Teen Cotillion