San Diego Natural History Museum High School Internship
School-credit internship rotating through Paleontology, Entomology, and Botany departments.
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Caltech Summer Research Connection (ZTF track)
6-week research placement for Pasadena USD students analyzing real Caltech telescope survey data.
Judith River Dinosaur Institute Dinosaur Digs
6-day campout excavating real Jurassic dinosaur bones in Montana.
Western Science Center Junior Volunteer Program
Fossil lab work cleaning/preparing Ice Age fossils in Hemet, CA.
CHOP Neurology High School Scholars Program
A paid five-week internship at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia pairing sophomores through seniors with a neurologist or neuroscientist mentor for a research project, clinical shadowing, and a final poster presentation. Program is paused for 2026, set to resume July 2027.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: Experiences in Research
Paid 6-week internship for Northern CA students on data science/computational research.
NEURO-RocHS
A paid six-week neuroscience research program pairing Rochester high schoolers with University of Rochester Del Monte Institute lab mentors for hands-on research and career-pathway exposure. Currently limited to Rochester City School District partner schools.