Special Opportunities

The SCA Summer Internship Program (“SIP”) recruits talented NYC public high school students for a six-week paid internship with various SCA departments and business partner companies throughout New York City. SIP is designed to expose students to careers in various industries, including but not limited to architecture, engineering, construction management, business, and public administration. The program provides interns with diverse internship experiences along with career mentoring. Students spend four days a week with their intern host and the remaining day attending educational programming. Assignments will vary depending on the company or department and the student’s skill set. The internship is an in-office position, and the standard hours for the program are 9:00am-4:00pm Monday through Friday. A 10-hour OSHA construction safety course will be provided for students based on assignment need, prior to the start date. Internship assignments may include limited supervised visits to one or more construction sites. Students will be required to submit a parent consent form signed by their parent or legal guardian prior to participating in construction site visits.

The Greenbelt Nature Center hosts the NAC Student Urban Nature Internship program during the summer (with some pre-program requirements earlier in the year).  The application deadline is January 14, 2026.
Since 2022, the NAC has run a paid urban ecology internship program for local high school students to use the framework of science identity to promote environmental stewardship among NYC youth. Over the course of six weeks, high school interns will gain skills in flora and fauna identification, field ecology, natural areas management and stewardship, and the scientific method through several mentored monitoring and restoration projects. Interns will also participate in professional development training in public speaking, networking, and resume building. Finally, interns design and carry out their own ecological research project focused long-term forest health monitoring in NYC Parks. Interns can look forward to collaborative stewardship and field trip days. This program will work out of NYC Parks in Forest Park, Queens and Greenbelt Nature Center in Staten Island.
See the CDC google classroom for the detailed information.

Seeds of Fortune Inc. Scholars in Partnership with Yale Women in Economics is a 10-month program that delivers an Economics capstone project and college prep.



40 scholars are selected to learn economics with Yale University professors with the goal of having youth enter the field of economics and use the knowledge to rethink the economy for their communities.

Next summer, BU is offering four distinct pre-college programs, each of which provides rigorous and collaborative college life experiences that will enable high school students to gain a strong sense of their personal and academic potential and get a glimpse of their futures. Here is a brief overview of each of the programs:

1. High School Honors is a six-week residential, commuter, or online program in which students take Boston University undergraduate courses and earn up to 8 transferable college credits. Students must be entering their junior or senior year of high school in fall 2026.
2. RISE Internship/Practicum is a six-week, non-credit residential or commuter program in which domestic students conduct university-level scientific research under the guidance of university mentors and instructors. Students must be entering their senior year of high school in fall 2026.
3. Academic Immersion (AIM) is a three-week, non-credit residential or commuter program for students to focus intensively on a single academic topic while experiencing life on a college campus. This summer we are offering four AIM tracks: Introduction to Experimental Psychology; Introduction to Medicine; Creative Writing; and Business. Each track combines classroom work in the subject area with hands-on experiential learning activities. Students must be entering their junior or senior year of high school in fall 2026.
4. Summer Challenge is a two-week residential or commuter program in which students take two non-credit seminars of their choice and experience a taste of college life. Students must be entering their sophomore, junior, or senior year of high school in fall 2026.
Tuition fees apply. Please discuss all opportunities with a parent/guardian.

Johns Hopkins Engineering Innovation Pre-College Programs—offered on campus, online, or in a hybrid format; offers pre-college programs for credits toward college and a future in engineering.

This summer, you can explore real-world engineering challenges as creative problem-solvers, collaborate with motivated students from around the globe, and earn college credit from Johns Hopkins University.

There are tuition fees. Discuss all opportunities with a parent/guardian prior to applying. Interested students are encouraged to apply by 1/30/26.