I second Nathan's answer, but besides that here are a few programs specifically for HS students you might be interested in.
- SPARC (deadline closed for this year)
- ESPR
- PAIR
- Non-Trivial
I'd also recommend applying to those university programs! When I was talking with the organizers of those programs at EAG, n=3 seemed to believe it'd be perfectly appropriate for me to apply. I suspect other programs would also (major caveat: may only apply to non-residential programs for <18 for legal reasons).
(also, Yarrow B's answer is a joke, but, anecdotally, a major failure mode of young EAs are becoming too dedicated and sacrificing all their other interests and such for it. )
Attempt to bequeath your future self a kinder, more joyful, more competent person. This might involve:
You are probably right that it's hard to make concrete improvements to the world right now, but you can give a gift to your future self of a better situation. The key is for that to be something that that person will endorse. Increasing their competence, joy, kindness and optionality seems likely to be good.Â
Unless you become a billionaire in which case I want a bit of obligation, sorry
There are videos scattered across https://www.givedirectly.org but you get their recipients stories in a more raw form from https://live.givedirectly.org (in many cases click on the summary story for past questions and answers with that recipient).
Outside of GiveDirectly, I found https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street informative.
Disclosure: I work at GiveDirectly