INTERNSHIP YOUTH
INFORMATION
What are YOU doing this summer?
Through the Home Run Paid Internship Program, you can gain hands-on experience and get paid while you learn! The Home Run offers internships with local employers to qualified high school students from all Washington Unified School District high schools. Check out the boxes below to see if YOU qualify, and see which employers have hired interns in past years here.
Home Run Internships
The Home Run internship program offers paid summer internships to qualified high school students in the Washington Unified School District. Interns receive training and mentoring from supervisors and the Home Run team.
Skill Development
The Home Run high school programs focus on developing skills you will need in any job, such as oral and written communication, collaboration and teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking.
These skills are different from the technical skills you need for specific jobs. For example, to be a software designer you need some skill in coding. Coding is not usually needed to be a firefighter or a farmer. But both jobs require problem solving and critical thinking.
How to qualify
To be eligible for a Home Run internship you must be 16 years old by the first day of the internship (usually mid-June). River City High School students must have completed at least one Career Technical Education course. Yolo and Washington Middle College High School students may qualify with a recommendation form completed by a teacher or counselor.
Career readiness training
Interns will spend a few hours together each week during the summer to receive career skills training, share successes and challenges, and provide peer coaching to one another.
How to apply
Internship applications will be accepted starting in early April. We are transitioning to a new application system, and information about how to apply will be available at that time. Students should expect to submit an application and a resume, and are expected to interview for the positions they want.
Save for college
Home Run interns can receive a $50 deposit to their Ready, Set, Save! accounts, as well as other incentives. These funds can be used for college or other postsecondary education or training expenses. Click on the Ready, Set, Save! tab to learn more and open an account.
All applicants are required to attend a virtual informational session about the internship program. Info session schedule TBD.
This is an experience that you won't really find in many other places, and you get real job experience in potentially a career field you want to go into.
Robbie
Summer Intern, WUSD IT Department
