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What kinds of internships exist before college?

Before college, "internship" covers at least three different things: a paid placement with an employer or nonprofit, a research internship inside a lab or agency, and a residential research program that is not a job. They share a winter application season more often than they share a definition. Pay, eligibility, and links stay in the account.

Students collaborating on a robotics project

Three shapes students mix up

Bank of America Student Leaders is a paid summer with a nonprofit. The NIH summer internship is research inside the agency. Research Science Institute is a residential research program. Treating them as one list of "internships near me" hides the choice you are actually making.

A sample, not the catalog

Scout's opportunity catalog is larger than these three, and it changes as deadlines pass. The public site keeps a few stable examples so search engines can see what the product is about, and so you can decide whether to create an account.