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The Blackstone Valley Education Foundation (BVEF) concluded an event-filled month of May with a series of initiatives that highlight its commitment to real-world learning, student voice, and career-connected education. From the return of Arts in the Valley to Blackstone Valley Youth Leadership Academy Culmination and STEM Unfiltered, the Foundation’s work this month demonstrated the power of connection, creativity, and future-focused learning.

This spring, the Blackstone Valley Youth Leadership Academy (BVYLA) marks a major milestone: 20 years of empowering young leaders across the Valley. Launched in 2004 by the Blackstone Valley Education Foundation, BVYLA was founded on a simple but powerful idea: that students, when given tools, guidance, and opportunity, can lead real change in their communities.

This hands-on event, happening on May 15th at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, was created in collaboration with faculty at Cummings School of Veterinary medicine at Tufts and organized by student leaders from the middle school cohort of the Blackstone Valley Youth Leadership Academy (BVYLA) — an early leadership program under BVEF’s youth development model.