PRYDE Youth Investigators Featured in Einhorn Center for Community Engagement Video Showcase

In Spring 2025, PRYDE Scholars facilitated lessons in social science research at New Roots Charter School in Ithaca. Aimed at making research feel exciting and relevant for teens, the PRYDE Youth Investigators Program is a five-module social science training curriculum. This partnership was recently featured in a community-engaged learning video showcase put together by the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement!

“We want to empower youth to ask questions about their community,” said Reagan Allvin ‘26, a PRYDE Scholar who facilitated these lessons at New Roots. “Because they are experts in their own experience.”

This experience served not only to impart tenth graders with research skills, but also provide PRYDE Scholars with a community-engaged learning opportunity — partnering with young people to navigate topics related to social science.

“Students do better when they get to be engaged in their community,” said Eleanor Griggs, an English teacher at New Roots. “They have more investment in the learning. The more partnerships that we build, the stronger connections students have to their education.”

Check out PRYDE’s Youth Investigators on the David M. Einhorn Video Showcase here!