Free Internships for High School Students
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35 published catalog entries match this page; the 30 most relevant are featured below; 4 can be done online.
Catalog entries
Browse 30 catalog programs:
- NIH Summer Internship Program (SIP) — High School Senior Eligibility — Catalog organization: National Institutes of Health Office of Intramural Training & Education — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Virginia House of Delegates Page Program — Catalog organization: Virginia House of Delegates Clerk's Office — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Ted R. Lilley CURE Program — Catalog organization: OHSU Knight Cancer Institute — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Genesys Works High School Internship Program — Catalog organization: Genesys Works — Cost: Free · paid stipend · Deadline: Rolling applications
- Forage Virtual Job Simulations — Catalog organization: Forage — Cost: Free · Deadline: Rolling applications
- Expanding Horizons Institute (EHI) — Catalog organization: Teach Democracy — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Boyce Thompson Institute High School Research Experience — Catalog organization: Boyce Thompson Institute — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- UGA Young Dawgs Program — Catalog organization: University of Georgia — Cost: Free · Deadline: Rolling applications
- Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Internships — Catalog organization: Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage — Cost: Free · paid stipend · Deadline: Rolling applications
- Michigan Science Center Explainers — Catalog organization: Michigan Science Center — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Fermilab Program for Research, Innovation, and STEM Mentorship (PRISM) — Catalog organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- 2027 Girls Who Invest Scholars Program — Catalog organization: Girls Who Invest — Cost: Free
- Great American Leadership Program Paid Summer Internship — Catalog organization: Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Summer Program Advancing Research Knowledge, Education and Development (SPARKED) — Catalog organization: Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Fred Hutch Summer High School Internship Program (SHIP) — Catalog organization: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Mikva Challenge Summer Fellows — Catalog organization: Mikva Challenge — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Scripps Research REACH High School Summer Internship — Catalog organization: Scripps Research — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Internships (College-Level) — Catalog organization: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- U.S. Department of State Student Internship Program — Catalog organization: U.S. Department of State — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- NASA OSTEM Internships — Current High-School Eligibility Notice — Catalog organization: NASA Office of STEM Engagement — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- CodeDay Labs — Catalog organization: CodeDay — Cost: Free
- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Academy — Catalog organization: UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and University of Pittsburgh — Cost: Free
- Young Ambassadors Program — Catalog organization: Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Student Urban Nature (SUN) High School Internship — Catalog organization: Natural Areas Conservancy — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Science for Success Teen Internship — Catalog organization: Cleveland Museum of Natural History — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Careers in Science (CiS) Intern Program — Catalog organization: California Academy of Sciences — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Youthcast Media Group Journalism Programs — Catalog organization: Youthcast Media Group — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- St. Jude High School Research Immersion Program — Catalog organization: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- DOE Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) — Catalog organization: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- OHSU School of Dentistry Summer Research Internship — Catalog organization: Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry — Cost: Free · paid stipend
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