Welcome to CUNY Explorers
CUNY Explorers offers students the opportunity to visit a college campus, inspiring academic success while fostering essential life skills. Through a near-peer mentorship model, college students share their personal experiences, highlight college life, resources and build meaningful connections with younger students.
CUNY Explorers at City Tech shares a unified message with all visitors: college is within reach, affordable, and achievable - and students can start taking steps toward their college goals today. City Tech offers engaging college experiences designed for middle school and early high school students, available both in-person and remotely.
What makes Explorers at City Tech Unique?
Our college community embraces and participates in our visits making it a varied and engaging
experience for our young visitors. It is a common place for a class to see and learn about our
radiology lab, interact with nursing department's patient simulators or nursing manikins,
experience our professional restaurant and kitchen and experience first-hand engineer and
architecture tools, blueprints and machines.
Our remote workshops equally engaging and can host up to entire grades. Also run by our
trained college students, providing a connection and a model for our younger students.
39,000+ Students |
Across 11 CUNY campuses experienced interactive and engaging in-person and virtual campus experiences through CUNY Explorers during the 2022-2023 academic year. |
Schools in Districts 75 & 79 |
And those with high numbers of English language learners are provided tailored support through partnerships with campus accessibility and resource offices. |
183 Visits |
In 2023, marked the second consecutive year that CUNY Explorers hosted a summer program, serving 3,934 students throughout NYC. |