Youth-Powered Systems Change
Dream Tank's Systems Change L.A.B. brings young people and community leaders together to co-create solutions to the challenges shaping our future.
The founding moment is here.
How will you show up?
Youth. Engineers. Intergenerational mentors. One day. One real civic challenge. Your community's future — designed by the people who'll live in it.
Golden is the founding city.
Be part of what comes next.
This summer, 24 Golden youth, 3–6 Golden High School planning interns, Colorado School of Mines fellows, and 20 community leaders design real civic solutions together — and deliver a Local Action Blueprint to city leadership. The DREAMCAST reaches thousands worldwide.
Trauma-informed spaces where youth and adults feel safe, heard, and ready to lead together.
Youth explore root causes of community challenges and envision bold, unconstrained futures.
Teams prototype real solutions with mentors, experts, and leaders from across their community.
Golden Is About to Find Out What Happens When Young People Design the Future
Golden has a question it's Mayor has been carrying for a while: what would it look like if the people who will inherit this city actually had a hand in designing it? On Friday, August 7, we're going to find out. Dream Tank, in partnership with the PEAC Institute and...
A Story of Bravery, Belonging, and Becoming
Some stories do more than tell us what happened. They remind us who we are. In my recent About Boulder article, I share the story of my grandmother, Margaret “Maggi” Markey, and her path into civic leadership in Boulder County during a time of deep change. It is a...
Learning from the Systems Change LAB: When Color Became the Point
During Dream Tank’s two-week Systems Change Lab in Boulder, Brown University students worked alongside mentors and city leaders to design practical tools for civic systems change. As the cohort prepared to present their ideas to mayors, an unexpected debate emerged:...
