Internships for high schoolers

The Hanover Summer Internship is a paid employment opportunity that provides motivated high school and college students with professional work experience, while helping them develop essential skills like time management, communication, teamwork, leadership, and critical thinking. It also allows interns to explore new interests and gain insight into the workings of Hanover's town government.

Since 1985, Texas law has required all high schools in the state, public and private, to offer voter registration applications to eligible students two times during the academic year. Despite the clear obligations under the law, reports by the Texas Civil Rights Project and others find that the law is not sufficiently implemented across Texas, and that high schools continue to struggle with providing voter registration to eligible students. The High School Civic Engagement Internship Program, a collaboration between Rice University and the League of Women Voters of Houston (LWVH), seeks to expand prior efforts and initiatives by working with directly with high school students.

The Accelerate Cancer Education (ACE) program is a summer research program specifically designed for minority and underserved high school students. The goals of the 6-week program are to expose students interested in biomedical careers to firsthand educational experiences related to oncology, introduce them to a variety of potential career paths and demonstrate the commitment of The University of Kansas Cancer Center to a diverse workforce by offering a comprehensive education and training experience to a wide variety of students.

The Voelcker Biomedical Research Academy enables rising high school sophomores to participate in research experiences mentored by biomedical scientists from UT Health San Antonio. The academy runs for three years—including a seven-week research program in the first year—and aims to introduce high schoolers to careers in biomedical research.

Expand your knowledge this summer with DPR’s Build Up High School Internship in Construction Management. Tool belts not required! DPR’s Build Up internship is 8 weeks, 35-40 hours per week, in person.

The Broad Summer Scholars Program (BSSP) invites highly motivated high school students with a strong interest in science to spend six weeks at the Broad Institute. We match students with Broad scientists to conduct original, cutting-edge research projects in areas such as: cancer biology, psychiatric disease, chemical biology, computational biology, infectious disease, and more. In addition to original research, students will get to explore scientific careers; attend interesting scientific talks; present their research to the Broad community in a scientific poster session; attend a college fair; participate in fun social events; and meet other students who share similar interests.

Teen Gallery Guides at the Getty Center is a paid summer internship opportunity for teens interested in art, working in community with teen peers, building public speaking skills, and engaging with art professionals and museum spaces in unique ways. Over the summer, interns will learn strategies for understanding and discussing artwork, audience engagement techniques, and teaching strategies to lead gallery experiences and activities for school-aged visiting groups. Transportation to and from the Getty Center is provided to each intern, as well as a stipend.

Education Interns (Interns) support the effective delivery of educational lessons and activities for children ages 3 to 15 during week-long summer camp programs. Interns participate in 1 week of training and rotate through various summer camp duties. Duties include assisting with or leading camps for ages 3 – 15, leading extended care activities, and caring for DelNature’s collection of educational animals. Interns will have the opportunity to develop and lead activities as well as assist with programs.

Participants will learn how to conduct academic research, discover different types of engineering, and have the chance to create a project for the Utah Science & Engineering Fair. Students will also participate in workshops focused on subjects like ethics in research, how to write for science, conversations with alumni, and many other interesting topics.

The Stanford Medical Youth Science Program (SMYSP) is an academic enrichment program for students from low-income, underrepresented backgrounds. Over five weeks, participants engage in faculty lectures, professional development workshops, Stanford Medicine networking events, and a public health disparities research project.

Voices of Oklahoma is a summer internship for rising high school juniors and seniors who are members of communities traditionally excluded from archaeology. This for-credit program introduces students to the discipline of archaeology as a tool that can produce knowledge that complements other ways that communities understand their heritage (e.g., historic documents and oral traditions). Each summer’s curriculum focuses on a theme chosen with hopes it will resonate with the students. In summer 2023, that theme will be Indigenous boarding schools.

When you volunteer at University Health, you add some light into a patient’s or a family member’s life. Whether that’s greeting visitors with a smile at the information desk, handling clerical work so our doctors can spend more time with patients, reading to hospitalized children or knitting preemie-size sweaters for newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit, our volunteers add an extra layer of compassion to our work.

Are you an iJAG student currently in your junior year of high school? Does the thought of taking advantage of an outstanding learning and development opportunity at the Principal Financial Group sounds appealing to you? If so, look no further. This new learning and development summer internship is geared specifically towards iJAG students completing their junior year. It will allow you the ability to get a head start on your career after high school and specifically at Principal.

Boston Cares partners with nonprofits and schools to expand their impact by mobilizing diverse people to collaboratively address our community’s critical needs. Volunteers will do a variety of activities volunteering and many different places across the community, helping other while also connecting with other students their age.

This program offers volunteer opportunities for high school students to work with archival materials and learn about Delaware history. Participants work on various projects, such as indexing and digitizing documents.

As the signature program for ROTARY/One, JOB1 prepares City of Chicago High School 11th grade and graduating seniors, who are sixteen and over, for the workplace by providing job readiness training, as well as, substantive paid summer internship opportunities with local businesses and not for profits in the Chicago area.

This seven-week program includes: a high level, 5-week authentic research experience in participating NYU faculty labs, mentoring in that placement by a graduate or postdoctoral student, a stipend of at least $750 for completing the program, as well as two weeks of workshops, college advisement and other activities geared to preparing ARISE students for the college application process.

Explainers are high school students who have been accepted into a competitive internship program and work as volunteer educators in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden. Explainers learn about nature and plant science in order to become environmental educators for children and families by exploring the Garden. They commit to a minimum of 125 training and volunteer hours.

Dive deeper into subjects and earn college credit upon completion, so you can start building your college transcript. These courses feature additional reading and coursework hours compared to our enrichment options.

The Zuckerman Institute’s Brain Research Apprenticeships in New York at Columbia (BRAINYAC) program prepares today’s youth to become tomorrow’s scientists. BRAINYAC provides high-schoolers with an immersive, hands-on summer research experience in a Columbia laboratory. We emphasize opportunities to connect with real scientists, learn key skills required to work in a research environment, and become part of the Columbia University community.

In this paid internship, New York City teens immerse themselves in art and art history, and learn about museum education while creating their own lessons for audiences of all ages. Museum Apprentices: - Meet artists and curators to learn about art and the Brooklyn Museum’s collections - Discuss critical topics in the field of museum education, such as working with the public school system and the role of museums in social justice movements - Connect with education staff and get trained on how to use artworks to teach people of all ages and abilities - Assist with family programs such as Art Explorers: Families Create - Develop tours and teach summer camp groups - Learn about education programming in a museum setting, and work to make connections between art and our world - Build public speaking, lesson planning, research, and teaching skills - Strengthen communication, collaboration, time management, and organizational skills - Get paid $16 per hour. Second-year Museum Apprentices serve as leaders in the program and are paid $17 per hour. - Work up to 180 hours for the year! MetroCards will be provided to support weekend and summer work.

Musée Magazine is a dynamic, print and digital biennial, and interactive website dedicated to featuring works by emerging and established artists. Musée prides itself on giving our interns valuable hands-on experience and insight into the digital publication industry. As an intern with Musée you will be exposed to the photographic community’s most established figures, up and coming works, premiering films, and gallery openings.

At our Southwest Headquarters Ground Operations, there are various opportunities available to provide personnel support to Southwest Airlines employees at the station. These include tasks such as assisting with payroll, attendance and leave, staffing, maintaining personnel records and resources, and coordinating events and meetings.

Take regular Cornell courses online, study with university faculty, and earn credits and a Cornell transcript.