TEC Internships for Boston and MetroArea

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The Education Cooperative (TEC) provides students with unique opportunities to explore future career direction through the innovative Internship Program. TEC's Internship program provides a meaningful, hands-on experience in a supervised professional environment that helps to encourage students to realize their full potential. Our internships are time-limited work experiences with defined goals that take place in a professional work setting of varying types.

TEC Internships are an alternative way to learn outside of the classroom. This can be an important way students can gain experience and begin to make contact with their chosen careers. These opportunities are available to both high school and college students.

We are NOW accepting applications for Academic, Extended and Post-Secondary Internship Programs! We accept applications for Summer Internships beginning January 20. If you are interested in an internship, please read our FAQs to learn more about the placement process.

Limited Internships are available in some careers, apply early...

Pricing for the various Internship opportunities can be found below.

Internships help to give you answers
Internships are experiences offered to help apply what is learned in the classroom. They can play a crucial role in every stage of career planning.

Call it project-based, shadowing or working independently, the main purpose is that students gain benefits such as:

• Interning in a job related to a potential major
• Clarifying career goals
• Gaining experience for a resume
• Making potential contacts for a future job search
• Academic planning
• Learning professional behavior

This opportunity allows students to visualize their futures. It can provide each intern with the opportunity to identify likes and dislikes regarding certain careers, departments in a company, office atmospheres, etc. Students should consider these internships as a "test-drive" of a career. Al of these internships are what you make of them. In the end, you will come away with an experience - not just an internship.

How does the TEC Internship work?

TEC high school internships are available to students who have finished two years of high school and complete the initial assessment screening process. TEC's Signature Internship experience is a custom 60-hour internship over a period of a minimum of four consecutive weeks in the summer or 8-10 consecutive weeks, over three months, during the academic school year. Please see our FAQs for further details about the placements process and schedules. TEC also offers Extended and Post Secondary Internships.

Students may receive credit for their participation from their individual school. A certificate of completion and a letter of the student's participation are sent to each student's counselor/advisor once all requirements of the internship are fulfilled. Letters of recommendation may also be provided to each intern.

TEC College Internships run in a similar manner. College students should check with their advisor for their school's requirements of potential credit. College students should apply early. Several of our placements require that the intern's college award credit for their internship experience. An internship for a college student may be paid. This is NOT guaranteed.

Where will each student intern?
A TEC Coordinator, acting as an internship advisor, will interview each student that applies to the Internship Program. The coordinator will evaluate the student for levels of maturity, motivation to participate and responsibility. Once the career of interest is determined, the coordinator begins the process to find a best match for the needs of the student and participating business sponsor. Geographical parameters, transportation, and student's availability to partake are considered during this process.

Once the potential best match is determined, the business sponsor and student meet for an interview to decide on suitability of the placement. The specific dates and hours for an internship are determined in a mutually agreed contract between the intern and sponsor. The TEC Internship Coordinator will facilitate this process as necessary.

Students are in contact with their coordinators on a regular basis and report through their required journal portfolios provided by TEC. Resume writing, interviewing skills and college essay workshops are also available as a part of this program for no additional fee.

Make it happen, don't wait, experience new ways to learn now.

TYPES OF TEC INTERNSHIPS - not all internships available are listed here
[Due to professional confidentiality, we do not post names of placements on this website].

An Internship may help you to discover other career fields you hadn't even considered.

Internship Cost:
Academic Year 60-hour "Signature" Internships: $550 for students who attend school in TEC member districts*; $650 for those whose schools are in Non-TEC member districts. Applications are due 8-10 weeks before the desired start date.

Summer 60-hour "Signature" Internships: $550 for students who attend school in TEC member districts*; $650 for those whose schools are in Non-TEC member districts. Applications are due by May 1st for that Summer!

Extended: $900 for students who attend school in TEC member districts*; $1200 for those whose schools are in Non-TEC member districts.

Post-Secondary: $2600 for all students who have already graduated from High School

*If a student lives in a TEC member community but attends school in a Non-Member town or attends any private school, that student must pay the Non-Member fee.

With both the Academic Year and Summer Internship program, the program fee includes a non-refundable $150 processing fee. No refunds will be issued once a placement has been secured. The information regarding our refund policy is further explained under the Resources / FAQs section of this site.

The program fee covers:

We do our utmost to find a custom placement in one of the student's chosen fields. Students must interview with and be accepted by the TEC Coordinator and the Sponsor.

Summer applications should be received at TEC by May 1. If a student wishes to apply for a summer internship after that date, he/she should call the TEC Office and speak to a member of the career services department first.

For Applications:
Click here to download an Application.

For any further questions:
Please contact Sherri Sigel, College and Career Services Program Coordinator. Office: 781-326-2473 x 121; email: ssigel@tec-coop.org.