Internships & student Roles
High School, College, and University Students Driving Community Innovation
At Bridges Strong, high school, college, and university students play a vital role in our mission. Through hands-on internships and roles, college and university students support the organization and high school collaborations via short- or year-long opportunities. High school students (including seniors and rising seniors) participate directly as collaborators in programs such as our Summer and Winter internships. Together, students identify community challenges solvable through engineering solutions and develop educational programs for adults that spark innovation, invention, and collaboration across local underserved communities and beyond.
Why Participate?
Our programs create a true pipeline where high school students act as collaborators — researching challenges, proposing engineering solutions, and contributing to real educational content for adults. College and university students provide mentorship, technical expertise (including AI), and co-creation support. Everyone gains practical skills while making a tangible difference.
Act as collaborators in identifying local community challenges and engineering-based solutions.
Contribute to developing practical online educational programs for adult learners that promote innovation, invention, and community-led progress.
Build engineering knowledge, project management, teamwork, and documentation skills.
Explore AI tools ethically and effectively to accelerate research, analysis, and development workflows.
Gain real-world experience, portfolios, recommendation letters, and connections that support future academic and career goals.
Flexible formats with opportunities for in-person collaboration in Hampton Roads schools and communities.
Current Opportunities
Past & Featured Internship Highlights
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High school collaborators developed Water Purification Module 3. Participiants gained hands-on experience in engineering education and community problem-solving.
During the internship, students researched and produced the English and Spanish documentation for this module,
Designed templates to be simple and understandable, while highlighting the critical information for the programs.
Produced the English version for the reverse osmosis video.
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College and high school interns are working in Agile/Scrum cycles to advance bilingual educational modules, contributing to adult learning programs that spark local innovation.
These programs demonstrate how high school, college, and university students collaborate to identify engineering solutions for community challenges and build educational resources for adult learners.