Description: This eight-week program gives motivated and self-directed students a chance to conduct their own research in a state-of-the-art lab under the guidance of a post-doc, and then publicly present their results. A stipend is awarded upon completion of the program.

Description: Created to help ease the difficulty teenagers have finding summer jobs, the Career Connection spends two weeks teaching interns skills like conflict resolution, dressing for success, and public speaking. The rest of the program is spent mentoring students through six weeks of work at multiple locations, followed by a Portfolio Night where each presents about their experiences. Interns receive a $1,500 stipend, $300 clothing stipend, and two monthly MetroCards.

Description: Interns help out in one of three different District Attorney’s offices, as well as attend special presentations and field trips, and take part in mock trial competitions. Interns receive a weekly stipend of $175.

Description: This rigorous, five-day a week, two-month physical and academic internship teaches kids about ecology in an urban setting via interns building and maintaining woodland trails, removing invasive plant species, shoring up eroded slopes, and helping restore disturbed woodland toward a more balanced state. First-year interns earn about $1,400 for the semester; second-year interns earn about $2,000.

Description: This internship consists of three main components: A department placement chosen based on the student’s interests, rotation through an assortment of career labs, and planning and executing a final event where interns demonstrate their skills learned over the course of the internship.

Discription: The six-week summer internship introduces students to multiple health-care professions via shadowing and encourages discussion of health issues that affect their particular community. There will also be lectures and field trips. (There is a similar program for residents of Manhattan and Staten Island.) Internship is unpaid.

Discription: During two separate four-week sessions, summer interns work together to give back to the community by volunteering with older adults, delivering meals, helping with technology, and socializing with homebound senior citizens. Internship is unpaid, but offers a minimum of 92 hours of community service, and stipends are available for travel costs.

Discription: Saltz interns learn about the museum and its exhibits, so they can then share their knowledge with visitors, especially children. Interns receive a MetroCard and uniform for the duration of the program, and a stipend upon completion.

Description: Interns work as teaching assistants in a K-5 classroom under the supervision of a head teacher, and in small groups or one-on-one to help with academic skills and model good behavior. Interns will also participate in professional development to hone community leadership skills. Internship is unpaid.

Descriptin: NASA internships, fellowships and scholarships leverage NASA’s unique missions and programs to enhance and increase the capability, diversity and size of the nation’s future STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) workforce.