HACKER Q&A
📣 etherio

Internships in High School?


Hey! I'm Uzay, and I'm in high scool right now. I'm super passionate about tech and programming and I was super excited to be doing an internship at kitty hawk this summer.

Unfortunately, it got cancelled but this is a small inconvenience considering the global situation.

I was wondering if any of you guys ever managed to get tech internships while in high school.

I have been working on lots of projects but I wanted to see what it'd be like interning in a tech company to learn more about the career.

If you know of any opportunities, my github is https://github.com/Uzay-G and you can check out some of my projects there. Also I have a blog / personal website here at http://uzpg.me

Thanks for your help, and best of luck in these trying times!

Edit: I am comfortable with Ruby/Rails, Python and webdev with JS. I'm also beginning to learn c++ to get into competitive programming.

  👤 enhdless Accepted Answer ✓
I had a few internships in high school doing webdev at startups. I got them through referrals (though not family members). Companies don't actively recruit for high schoolers (I've tried looking!), so unfortunately I think you'll have to rely on networking/connections, cold-emailing, etc.

This is a crowd-sourced repo of internship statuses for this summer, which might help: https://github.com/gcreddy42/hiring2020

My advice is to just continue building projects and you're already well on your way!

👤 CardenB
In high school I was able to shadow someone for no pay at a small engineering firm near my house. While it wasn’t really that crazy, it gave me some practical insight into what a typical engineering job was like. If you can’t land an internship, it doesn’t hurt to shadow someone for a week or two and make the most of it.
👤 kleer001
Oh wow, I got nothing. In my high school days I had a cranky old PC. I fiddled with Qbasic on it and this was well before the climaxed internet we have today. Good for you, that's amazing, you're well ahead of the curve.