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Project TRUE (Teens Researching Urban Ecology) is an urban ecology research and youth development program at The Bronx Zoo. In Project TRUE, small teams of high school students are paired with a Fordham University undergraduate student, who serves as a near-peer research mentor, to conduct field research. Research topics range from bird behavior and mammal diversity to invasive species management and water quality. Throughout the summer, students learn and put into practice research and science communication skills.
- Application Deadline: March 15th, 2023
- Time Frame: June 29 – August 22
- Focus- Urban Ecology
- Paid Internship
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 our 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 training on how to teach from artworks, to people of all ages and abilities and more!
- Application Deadline: TBA
- Time Frame: June – August 2023
- Focus: Art/ Art History
- Paid Internship
The Ladders for Leaders program offers outstanding high school and college students the opportunity to participate in paid 6-week summer internships with leading corporations, non-profit organizations, and government agencies in New York City.
Ladders for Leaders is open to NYC students ages 16—21, enrolled in high school with a minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) of 80 (3.00) and prior work or volunteer experience.
- Application Deadline: Rolling Application. Opens January 2023
- Time Frame: Summer 2023 (6 weeks)
- Focus: Many – Depending on student interests
- Paid Internship
Rising sophomores, juniors and seniors can intern with a diverse group of socially conscious peers to bring vital social connections to older adults. Through one of our four summer teen internship programs, you can develop leadership skills and engage in meaningful programs with older adults. Through a variety of intergenerational activities – including discussion groups, home visits, creative arts and tech assistance – you can give back to the community this summer while earning over 112 community service hours. Interns will need to travel to their internship location.
- Application Deadline: Rolling Admission!
- Time Frame:
- Session 1 – June 26 July 20th.
- Session 2- July 25th – August 17th
- Focus: Mental and Physical Health
This program is not exclusive to students interested in criminal justice, all students ages 14-17 are welcomed to apply. This is different than an internship because while students may be offered case studies, students will not be exposed to active cases or day-to-day investigation. The day overs a wide variety of topics from a classroom and experiential perspectives, as well as concepts that are designed to enhance student awareness of issues such as cybercrime, cyber bullying and more! Opened to High School students ages 14 – 17.
- Application Deadline: June 23rd
- Time Frame: July 10 – July 21
- Focus: Criminal Justice
- Unpaid Learning Experience
The Internship Program provides paid, mentored internships and career readiness workshops to high school juniors and seniors. Students submit one application and will be matched to an internship. Students acquire hands-on experience, gain entry to small businesses, nonprofits, government agencies and multinational corporations and earn needed money. The five components are the student recruitment and application process, intern placement, career readiness workshops and monitoring, and collaboration with school staff and mentors/supervisors.
- Application Deadline: January 27th, 2023
- Time Frame: Summer 2023
- Focus: Many! Matched with student interest
- Paid Internship
The Urban Leadership Fellows (ULF) Program is sponsored by The Municipal Forum of New York, Inc., and managed by Futures and Options. The purpose of the six-week, paid program is to enable New York City high school seniors to gain valuable hands-on work experience and training in the Municipal Finance industry. This is a competitive program opened to Graduating Seniors Only with limited spaces available.
- Application Deadline: February 19th, 2023
- Time Frame: July 5th – August 18th
- Focus: Business, Finance, Law, Government, and/or Public Policy
- Paid Internship
Through this program, students gain the computer science skills they need to make an impact and prepare for tech careers in our free, virtual summer programs. Summer program participants get exposure to tech jobs, meet leaders in tech careers, and find community in our supportive sisterhood; all while investing in their future self.
- Application Deadline: To Be Announced
- Time Frame: Summer | 2 week or 6 week program
- Focus: Computer Coding
- Unpaid Learning Experience
The GO Project summer internship is an opportunity for high school students to learn and develop leadership skills while working with GO Project students in academic and/or enrichment classes. During the five-week GO Summer program, interns will be supporting instruction in one of our K – 4 classrooms under the guidance of a Head Teacher or Enrichment Teacher.
Applicants will submit the online form first and then will receive a follow up email about submitting supplemental materials, later followed by an invitation to interview, if selected.
- Application Deadline: Rolling Admission
- Time Frame: July 5th – August 4th
- Focus: Education
- Unpaid Volunteer Experience
The HOPP Summer Student Program provides high school students with hands-on experience in laboratory techniques. Students conduct independent research projects and attend enriching training sessions and tours designed to support their interest in the clinical side of translational research and fuel their curiosity for science.
- Application Deadline: February 10th, 2023
- Time Frame: Summer 2023
- Focus: Clinical Research
The Met High School Internship Program offers paid opportunities for students who are two to three years from graduating high school (in grades 10 and 11). This program allows students to connect with art, museums, and creative professionals as they develop professional skills, network, and gain work experience.
- Application Deadline – March 31, 2023. 6pm
- Time Frame: July – August
- Focus: Art/ Art history
- Paid Internship
This is an internship-based program designed to expose students to health careers while enhancing their basic science knowledge, research and communication skills. Participants will spend each day in placement for the purpose of study and career exploration.
- Application Deadline: Opens February 2023
- Time Frame: Summer 2023
- Focus: Medicine
- Unpaid Learning Experience
This position will support the Human Capital team, completing various project and shadowing the team on daily activities within the department. The HC intern will have a number of responsibilities that range from supporting the team’s summer initiatives to helping organize and run the internship program with the HC Associate. This will allow the intern to learn about the many facets of the Human Capital function and organization as well as interact with all levels of management.
- Application Deadline: Rolling Admission!
- Time Frame: June 2023 – August 2023
- Focus: Environmental Field work and Recreation
- Paid Internship
This FREE learning experience applies to students with interest and desire to learn paleoclimatic skills, including field and lab research as well as data analysis. Field research includes plant identification, sediment coring, and sediment probing. Skills include processing samples including Loss-on-ignition, carbon content, x-ray fluorescence, and pollen, macrofossil identification and more! Opened to 10th, 11th, and 12th graders with a 3.0 GPA.
- Application Deadline: Rolling Admission
- Time Frame: Summer 2023
- Focus: Ecosystem Services
- Unpaid Learning Experience
For this project, students will perform a local, intensive, and comprehensive surface energy balance data collection and processing initiative that will help to characterize the urban heat island, the heat index, and more particularly the land surface temperature over various local community built and natural environments. The project aims to produce high temporal and spatial resolution land surface temperatures for the local community and for New York City using the combination of satellite remote sensing observations and ground-based measurements. Opened to 10th, 11th, and 12th graders with a 3.0 GPA.
- Application Deadline: Rolling Admission
- Time Frame: Summer 2023
- Focus: Climate Change / Technology
- Unpaid Learning Experience
Successful applicants will work closely with their mentors in related lakes research areas to analyze surface temperature and land cover change trends of major global lakes using daily infrared-based satellite sensors. Perform validations of satellite-based products such as surface water temperature estimates . Predict and study regional and global ice phenology in lakes and thereby define the impacts of climate change on ice-in and ice-out timing and more! Opened to 11th and 12th grades with 3.0 GPA.
- Application Deadline: Rolling Admission
- Time Frame: Summer 2023
- Focus: Changing Climate
- Unpaid Learning Experience
The intern project will use an ensemble suite of GISS climate model simulations of volcanic events to assess the impact on our climate system. These simulations will apply a special version of the GISS model designed to emulate the ocean carbon cycle. The interns will work with NASA GISS partnered with an international consortium of researchers (climate scientists, ecologists, historians and more) investigating how agricultural and marine productivity was impacted by volcanic activity, and how these impacts projected onto the historical development of human societies. Opened to 11th and 12th grades with 3.0 GPA.
- Application Deadline: Rolling Admission
- Time Frame: Summer 2023
- Focus: Agriculture and Climate Change
- Unpaid Learning Experience
Becoming a New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital volunteer allows you to work in the office along side other staff members to enhance your knowledge to health, communication skills, and basic science!
- Application Deadline: Rolling Admission
- Time Frame: 120 hours, 6 months – upon acceptance
- Focus: Medical
- Unpaid Volunteer Experience
Parks & Recreation is a public agency of over 3,500 people that care for about 29,000 acres of parkland. Parks’ principal mission is to keep the parks, playgrounds, and sitting areas of New York City clean and safe, while also developing the City’s recreational opportunities by offering quality facilities, programs, and events to meet the needs of all New Yorkers. Volunteers may also help to run and organize free public events and get the community involved in Parks and educational and athletic programming in recreation and nature centers. State in your cover letter that you are applying for a summer internship.
- Application Deadline: Rolling Admission!
- Time Frame: June 2023 – August 2023
- Focus: Environmental Field work and Recreation
The position is designed for NYC public high school students interested in pursuing careers in areas including but not limited to business, architecture, construction management, engineering, information technology and/or public administration. Interns will be placed with a SCA department or with one of the SCA’s business partner companies throughout New York City. Students work for six weeks, spending four days with their intern host and the remaining day attending educational programming.
- Application Deadline: March 6th, 2023
- Time Frame: July 10 – August 18, 2023.
- Focus: Business, Architecture, Construction Management, Engineering, Information Technology and/or Public Administration
- Paid Internship
ARISE is an opportunity-based program focused on providing rigorous lab experience under the mentorship of some of NYU’s cutting-edge research faculty. This FREE program is a 7-week full-day summer program on-site at the Tandon and Washington Square campuses. It is open to students living in New York City with strong interests in careers in STEM fields. Students are trained in college-level research, expository writing, scientific methods, professional development, and ethics, then conclude the program at a professional poster presentation and colloquium.
- Application Deadline: March 1st, 2023
- Time Frame: 7 Week Summer Program
- Focus: Engineering
- Unpaid Learning Program
CS4CS is a FREE introduction to the fundamentals of cybersecurity and computer science for high school students with any or no background experience in cybersecurity or computer programming. Throughout the program, students will learn from lessons focused on a spectrum of topics such as “white-hat” hacking, cryptography, steganography, digital forensics, privacy, data usage, and other issues relevant to the fast-growing cyber industry.
- Application Deadline: April 14th, 2023
- Time Frame: 3 Week Summer Program
- Focus: Computer Science
- Unpaid Learning Program
Students do not pay any fees to us to participate in PSJP. The program will arrange and pay for housing, meals, and transportation required for the in-person portion of the program. Taking advantage of lessons learned during the virtual experience of the program in 2020-2022, the Princeton Summer Journalism Program will run the first-ever hybrid summer intensive during the summer of 2023. Participants will attend virtual workshops and lectures and complete related assignments online in July. The summer intensive will culminate with a 10-day residential experience on Princeton’s campus from July 28 – August 7, 2023.
This program is opened to students in the summer following their junior year through the end of their senior year. No exceptions will be made for students in any other grades.
- Application Deadline: February 27, 2023. 11:59 PM.
- Time Frame: July 28 – August 7, 2023.
- Focus: Journalism
- Unpaid Volunteer Experience – Fully Funded
The ACES internship provides an opportunity for students to connect practical experience, informal STEAM education and artistic play. ACES interns assist with Family Art Project, an intergenerational and multidisciplinary program for families to come together and make art inspired by nature at Wave Hill.
- Application Deadline: March 3rd, 2023. 3PM
- Time Frame: June 2023 – June 2024
- Focus: Arts and Science Education
- Paid Internship