Welcome to NewComm, where

A community of students who do real work, build real networks, and move capital into the places that built them.

Why students join

NewComm is where high school students stop preparing for the future and start practicing it now.

  • $10K

    student-led projects with real budgets

  • PAID

    opportunities to build real experience

  • REAL

    mentors, teams, and leadership

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Inside NewComm

We Build Community That Builds Economic Power

The students who change their communities aren't the ones who left — they're the ones who came back with resources, networks, and authority. NewComm builds that. You're in from day one, no application, no GPA cutoff. Over four years the role grows with you — from observer to recruited team member to paid project leader. Real clients. Real budgets. Real compensation. That's what economic power looks like when it's built from the inside.

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Where It Happens

This happens on the campuses of New York's most resourced schools.

Horace Mann. Poly Prep. Independent schools with world-class facilities, expert faculty, and professional networks built over decades. NewComm opens that infrastructure — and puts students from the Bronx and Brooklyn in the driver's seat. Not as visitors. As the people running the room.

Find your nearest design studio → Bring NewComm to your school →
Current Design Studios
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Horace Mann School
Riverdale, the Bronx · Founding Partner 2023
Perched on top of a hill in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, Horace Mann sits on a 26-acre campus known for its expansive libraries, labs, and performance spaces. NewComm’s gathering space is the Atrium in Rose Hall, where Fellows host design studios, meetings, and community sessions throughout the year. Just down the hill, our two-story headquarters house becomes the home base for our summer program, where students spend weeks building projects and preparing to present their work.
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Poly Prep Country Day School
Dyker Heights, Brooklyn · Partner 2025
Set on a rare hillside campus in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, Poly Prep offers the kind of expansive learning environment increasingly rare in New York City. NewComm Fellows use these spaces to host design studios, collaborate with mentors, and build projects that connect Brooklyn students to broader professional networks. The campus becomes a working platform for ideas, collaboration, and leadership.
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The network is growing · Join us
NewComm is building a citywide network of campuses where students can access the facilities, relationships, and institutional infrastructure that shape opportunity. Each new partner school expands the environments where Fellows can meet, prototype ideas, and lead community-driven work. Your school could become the next place where student leadership goes to work.