Summer Camps, Internships and Jobs
Why should you think about getting a job?
As Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder points out in The New College Reality: Make College Work
For Your Career, the end game of all this education is becoming a person with sought-after
skills. What better way to see what skills are valued in the world than working in
a job?
Some other reasons to work at a job are 1) it feels good to get paid in return for
your efforts and 2) from a college admission perspective, students who have held
down a summer job are assumed to have character traits like responsibility and grit.
Here’s a listing of volunteer job opportunities: volunteer jobs to get you started.
Camps and internships:
There are of course many, many summer camps and programs out there. Here is a listing
to start you off, http://www.tjhsst.edu/supportingtj/careercenter/summerpg.htm, but
if you want some directed guidance, give me a call.
As a science aficionado, here is a list of some of my favorites summer programs:
Summer Science Program (SSP)
Research Science Institute (RSI)
Women's Technology Program (WTP)
The Ross Program
COSMOS (California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science)
Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS)
Canada/USA Math Camp
