The Education Trust, a nonprofit aiming to improve equity in education from preschool through college, hosted three students with the Rutgers Scarlet Service in D.C. program, Rania Ragoub NCAS '27, Alice Merolli SAS '27 and Joey Reyes SAS '27.

Endurance Laryea worked with the Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership to monitor the water health of the public access points from Piscataway to Perth Amboy.

Gaby Barona reflects on her summer interning at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.

Andie Purks and Sofia Little share how living and interning in Washington, D.C. was a transformational experience.

Karyna Anderson spent her summer interning for Newark Emergency Services for Families, where she worked with individuals in need of housing and employment.

Freyja Quinn and Nadia Elieff discuss their paid internships with NASA and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman.

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.