That's why teaching and mentoring aren't extras here — they're the journey. Students run this club, and they have since 2009.
Nobody gets appointed. The path is the same for everyone, and it starts the first week.
Join a bench. Build real skills on real equipment — from zero is fine.
Explain it to the next student. You don't fully know it until you've taught it.
Guide younger students — in the clubroom, the Fifth Ward, or across an ocean.
Run a bench, a project, an office — and help build the club for the students who come next.
When students explain a concept, lead a team, help a younger student, or solve a problem together, they build mastery, patience, confidence, empathy, communication — and leadership.
Leadership in YTC is earned through service, reliability, and growth. Officers aren't elected on popularity or appointed on grades — leadership accrues to the students who teach, because everyone in the room has watched them do the work, explain the work, and hand the credit away.
The president is the president because people trust them to keep things going.— Furqaan, 17 · YTC student, Evanston
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We are helping them become the kind of people who can help others succeed too. Emma Bernal studies cybersecurity at DePaul. Ava Mosely studies mechanical engineering at Purdue. Both walked this path from 2021 to 2023 — as this club's co-presidents.
I can confidently say that this club has well prepared me for engineering in college and beyond.— Ava Mosely · Purdue University
YTC was the best decision I ever made, and I am confident that I will be successful in life because of it.— Emma Bernal · DePaul University