Launched in June 2020, the Summer Internship in the CS Media Lab seeks to provide undergraduate students from around the world with the opportunity to get hands-on experience in the many different aspects (front end and/or back end) of science communication, informal science education, public engagement, and science policy (collectively known as civic science) through new or existing projects to support the work of individual Resident Initiatives in the collective managed by the lab. Interns are matched with one of the Residents in expertise, interests, and other domains. As such, it is highly recommended that prospective interns have 2-3 names of Residents whose work they are interested in before they apply. The interns then work with guidance from their resident mentor to accelerate ongoing work that could include conducting landscape analyses, designing new research proposals (see examples below), project outreach, collecting/analyzing data, social media marketing, survey design, database building, and more.

The internship typically runs virtually for ~10 weeks between June to mid August each year and the interns present a summary of the work they did over the summer at the end of their internship. Interns are expected to commit roughly between 5-6hrs a week and are provided a stipend of $1000. Given that the internship is completely virtual, it is designed to be an add-on experience. Ordinarily, interns usually have other projects (jobs, internships, etc.) outside the summer internship. 

The application portal opens Feb 1 through March 31 each year. We recommend applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible since the reviews will be ongoing. Ordinarily, applicants are notified sometime in April with a decision. 

Email us: mlab@civicsciencemedia.org