Mirely Peralta worked with teens during her summer internship, helping them increase their career readiness by connecting them with corporate leaders for the chance to compete.
Student Experiences
Every year through Rutgers Scarlet Service, undergraduates from all campuses gain hands-on experience addressing national issues while fostering self-discovery and meaningful interpersonal connections.
Stories
Tejas Sinha interned for the federal agency supporting a machine-learning model that turns survey responses into quantitative data.
Grace Asare worked in our nation’s capital learning how advocacy translates to action as a congressional relations and social impact intern.
Yiraldo Campos worked as an interpreter and paralegal with Latino clients seeking name changes and/or asylum.
Santiago Diaz De Leon Dominguez worked in the nation's capital during his internship as an outreach and recruitment intern for the Fulbright program.
Amanda Osborne spent her internship in Washington, D.C., where she helped interview, train and onboard new volunteers, write newsletters and assist with events.
Videos
Kaiel Maynor discusses her summer internship with Grow It Green Morristown, a nonprofit urban farm that gives back to local communities.
Zach Soricelli discusses his summer internship experience at New Jersey's Pinelands Adventures and the importance of our natural ecosystems and sustainability.
Lauren Johnson and Chelsea Fernandez discuss how their paid internships in Washington, D.C. opened up new possibilities and enriched their student experience.
George Gandour helped teens build healthy habits, leadership and independence through the sport of cycling as an intern with the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia.
Working at a dementia resource center gave Rutgers-Newark junior Favour Ikedife a lesson in empathy and a daily sense of fulfillment as she put her neuroscience background to use to help others.
Maddison Van Der Mark, a sergeant in the United States Army, reconnects with her community by teaching at-risk youth boxing at New Jersey Give a Kid a Dream in Long Branch, New Jersey.