Registration is open for the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office Youth Public Safety Academy, a summer program for kids ages 8 to 12 and counselors-in-training ages 13 to 15.

The program runs out of the sheriff’s training academy in Chelmsford and is open to children from any of Middlesex County’s 54 cities and towns. That includes Everett.

Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian called it “an exceptional and low-cost summer program” and said “generations of Middlesex County youth have enjoyed the opportunity to learn directly from the public safety professionals that serve their communities every day.”

The academy is broken into five one-week sessions. According to the sheriff’s office, kids take part in hands-on activities with Youth Public Safety Academy staff and area first responders, with programming focused on public safety lessons, teamwork, and leadership.

The listed cost is $125 per child, per week.

That fee includes transportation from designated bus stops, along with breakfast, lunch, snacks, and a graduation ceremony each Friday. Families in Billerica and Chelmsford are the exception and must handle drop-off and pickup at the training academy.

Registration closes June 15 at noon, and the sheriff’s office says payment is required at the time of registration through a new online system. Families applying for one of the limited scholarships can do that during registration as well.

There is no Everett bus stop listed this year.

That does not make Everett children ineligible, but it does mean families here would need to use one of the designated pickup and drop-off locations in other Middlesex County cities.

The bus stop schedule announced by the sheriff’s office is:

July 6 to 10: Chelmsford, Lowell, Tewksbury, and Wilmington.

July 13 to 17: Lexington, Stoneham/Wakefield, Tyngsborough, and Woburn.

July 20 to 24: Bedford, Belmont/Watertown, Billerica, and Newton/Waltham.

July 27 to 31: Acton/Boxborough/Maynard, Framingham/Natick, Hudson, and Marlborough.

Aug. 3 to 7: Arlington, Burlington, Malden, and Medford.

For Everett families, the practical question is simple: is getting to Malden or Medford in the first week of August workable, or is this one of those countywide programs that is technically available to everyone and logistically easier for some places than others?

Families looking to sign up can do so through the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office website at middlesexsheriff.org.