Program Length:  3 months+…Internships run year round

Location: ONLINE so you can join our team from wherever you are in the world! 

Admissions Req: Currently enrolled in high school: 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade. Shoot us a quick email at internships@building-U.com. Attach a resume if you have one handy, but mostly just let us know why you’d like to explore becoming an intern with us!

Highlight: Hey, speaking of unique internship opportunities — at building-u, we are always looking for high school students to join our crew in a variety of roles.  We believe that in a world where everything about the lives of students is changing rapidly, you should have a chance to be involved in strategizing and decision-making in an organization that is dedicated to creating useful resources for your future. The organization is fundamentally focused on building a database of free and helpful resources for students in the form of opportunities, internships, scholarships, contests, and education programs for students ….. with a bit of a twist: the organization itself is structured around a set of high school teams (with slightly older team leads in some cases), each in an area that specifically responds to a need at building-U, and each set up to produce specific things that reach, resonate with, and inform high school students.

All of the teams are focused on practically addressing business problems that we have at building-U.

• • Resource R&D =>team of students who work in pairs to research and create detailed, reader friendly write-ups for the opportunities for highschoolers  we feature in our database of Internships, Education Programs, and Contests and Challenges. The Social Media Content and Analytics team, works in pairs as well, to create eye-catching posts with a dash of humour around these featured  resources  that then appear on our social media platforms like Instagram, FB, LinkedIN, and TikTok. Students working on these two teams meet at the same time since they work on the same resource content
    
  • Marketing =>team of students that helps develop and implement our Google Ad campaigns and analyzes marketing data through Google Analytics
    
  • Blog Squad and Substack Writers => team of students focused on jointly developing and writing articles on various sustainability initiatives especially as they impact high school students. They also work hand in hand with the Substack management team on editing all pieces that appear on our Substack (A popular blog platform where we highlight resources and sustainability initiatives to create articles that go directly to potentially interested readers on our mailing list). Generally meets with the Business team.
  • Coding Team=> 1 team of students who learn about web and database development and prepare for frontend project work in REACT through foundational work in the following areas: HTML, CSS,  MEDIA QUERIES/RESPONSIVE DESIGN, BOOTSTRAP, JAVASCRIPT, JAVA and the DOM, REACT.  With appropriate foundational skill demonstrated, team members can then elect to work individually or in smaller teams to apply them to specific front end or back end projects within the larger contexts of 1) particular pieces of the new building-U website (REACT/ NODE JS) and 2) upgrades to our annual virtual game $4YT (Dollars 4 Your Thoughts)
  • Business and Development=> team of students that works to become fairly clear on , and support everything we do at building–U. This can include projects on this team and parts of ones that are from other teams. Projects on this team usually come in the form of operations organozation/ data entry/ and communication, Content creation, graphics, interviewing, video-editing, developing partnerships, and tasks arpund $4YT (our annual game) upgrades. Because there are so many different  projects on this team and because clarity is soo important consistent communication is essential for those thinking of joining this team
    
  • Animation=>team of high school students working on putting together a branding animation for building-U. Students from different teams  created the story and the storyboards for this original allegory featuring a turtle named Fredddy . The team is currently working  on a strategy for synching up scenes for the animatic and for the final colouring and animation…. which will still take a bit of time!
    
  • Data Privacy=>team who is working on creating a friendly animation in Powtoons that can make understanding  data privacy rights and responsibilities,  more user friendly, and accessible  for high school student

Beyond specific team project skills, students build essential teamwork and communication skills, and are always invited to join in on other team meetings to contribute ideas to other projects —  building knowledge integration skills as well!

Check’em out and send an email to internships@building-U.com to join an info session to learn more!

Financial: FREE with high potential for self-directed growth!