While our main programs take place in the summer, we also have scope for research internships during the school year for students in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade.
These are only for students whose schools fund such programs. Schools will describe them with names like “work based learning” or “career technical education”, and they will have a mechanism for paying students, as long as the student can find an internship program to work with – that is where the Institute for Computing in Research can be your mentoring organization.
If your school has such a program, please contact us. We can work with your school to see if it is viable, at which point we can discuss specific projects.
Students interning “during the year” will work on projects in or adjacent to their area of interest. In most cases these projects will be selected by the Institute to have a focus on developing educational materials for the Institute. Very often the projects will involve developing a chapter for the book of “mini courses” that we use to train students ahead of time.
Here are a couple possible scenarios (others might be possible) for a during-the-year internship. They are all contingent upon the school having a funding mechanism.
- An Institute intern from the previous summer has been invited by their mentor to continue collaborating on their project, and their school can fund them through a work based learning program. The student would continue working with their mentor from before.
- A student has discovered that their school has a work based learning program, and has learned enough about it that they can put us in contact with the coordinator. Once the Institute makes an agreement with the school, the student will have to engage with us, satisfying the prerequisites, and then apply at our usual page, stating that they are applying for a during-the-year internship. In this situation the Institute will pair the student with a mentor with the goal of developing research materials for our educational programs.
And of course please contact us if you have questions.