What is Discovery Internships

Discovery Internships, formerly Career Explorations, is dedicated to helping students stand out and take control of their futures. Our customized internship programs provide life changing experiences for students at a pivotal time in their life. Whether you are a high school student looking to gain clarity on college choices or fields of potential study or just looking for a meaningful summer in one of the greatest cities in the world, you’ve come to the right place. Whatever your needs, Discovery Internships' customized programs will help you explore your future.

Who We Are

Discovery Internships is powered by the expertise and experience of two leading summer program providers, Musiker Summer Discovery and Dream Careers. Summer Discovery has directed award-winning programs for high school students for over 40 years. Dream Careers is the leading provider of college internship programs worldwide, and has placed more than 10,000 interns over the past decade.

What We Do

Since 2002, Discovery Internships has helped motivated students make more informed decisions about their future by exploring a career interest through a customized professional internship.

The Discovery Internships program is an all-inclusive summer internship experience. In addition to gaining hands-on, career-focused learning opportunities, participants explore and live in an exciting city. Our programs feature a safe and fun living and learning environment based in a college residence hall. A meal plan, 24-hour staff supervision and mentoring, and a host of cultural, recreational, and other community events and excursions around the city are all included.

Our participants receive access to supplementary professional development workshops that enhance the internship learning experience and help students excel in both the college classroom and the workplace. Students receive academic credit for their internship and completion of coursework from New York University (NYU).

Today, the Discovery Internships program is provided in Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London. Discovery Internships receives applications from high school students in nearly every state in the U.S. and just as many countries.

Our Mission: Enabling students from around the world to explore their future through dyanmic and experiential career-focused programs.

Our History

In 2002, the first U.S. internship summer program for high school students, Career Explorations, was founded and held its inaugural program in New York City. Participants in the Career Explorations program were placed in impactful internships and provided with all of the support services needed to excel at their internship – housing in a college residence hall, a meal plan, mentorship, staff supervision, a vibrant social community, and cultural enrichment. During that first summer, it was clear that the Career Explorations experience was unique and powerful. Enrollment in the program blossomed over subsequent summers and Career Explorations expanded from New York to Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Each summer, Career Explorations provided summer internship programs to hundreds of students from dozens of countries.

In 2010, Career Explorations joined together with two leading summer program providers -- Musiker Summer Discovery and Dream Careers -- to form Discovery Internships. With Summer Discovery’s four decades of pre-college summer programs expertise and Dream Careers ten years of college internship placement prowess, Discovery Internships is, without question, the finest career-focused summer program for high school students in the world.

- The Discovery Internships Team

Internships. Summer Fun. Career Exploration.

Services

Discovery Internships partners with hundreds of companies in cities across the United States and in London. Discovery Internships offers internships in a wide range of industries and career fields including: advertising, architecture, business, culinary, education, engineering, entrepreneurship, environment/green, event planning, fashion, film/TV, finance, hospitality, interior design, journalism/publishing, law, marketing, media, medicine/healthcare, museum, music, non-profit, photography, politics, psychology, PR, real estate, sports, technology, theater, veterinary medicine, and more.

Discovery Internships programs include more than just internship placement. Our programs offer:

• A guaranteed internship in one of your top career fields of interest
• A personal Internship Coordinator (IC) that will help you determine the best internship opportunities for your interests, skills, and goals; secure your internship with an organization from within our extensive network of internship providers; and support you in all aspects of your internship experience.
• College credit from New York University (NYU)
• First-rate housing and meal plan at a college residence hall
• An opportunity to meet like-minded students from around the world, and generate a network of life-long friends.
• Included activities ranging from sporting events and shows to theatre and tours!
• The Career Accelerator Series presented by NYU and Discovery Internships: From pre-internship orientation through post-internship evaluation, we facilitate engaging seminars designed to help you enter a professional work environment with confidence, maximize your internship experience, and leave the program prepared to make more informed decisions about your future. Interns receive college credit for completion of coursework designed by NYU faculty specifically for Discovery Internships. You’ll also develop a polished professional resume that you will create with the assistance of Discovery Internships and your NYU faculty advisor.
• Local transportation within the city

Discovery Internships Program At A Glance

• 4 week, all-inclusive internship program focused on career discovery and professional development in top cities worldwide!
• Boston dates: July 3^rd – July 29^th 2011
• Chicago dates: June 26^th – July 23^rd 2011
• London dates: July 1^st – July 29^th 2011
• Los Angeles dates: June 19^th – July 15^th 2011
• New York City dates: June 26^th – July 23^rd 2011
• San Francisco dates: June 26^th – July 23^rd 2011
• Tuition starts at $5999

Discovery Internships & Social Responsibility

Discovery Internships is dedicated to providing world class experiential education programs focused on helping students achieve their educational and career goals. We help prepare tomorrow’s leaders to make more informed decisions about their futures and are priveleged to have the opportunity to work with some of the best and brightest students in the world, many of whom will go on to careers of tremendous societal impact. We are excited to play a very small role in addressing a few of the problems that our global society faces.

A few of our initiatives:

1)      Environment – Discovery Internships is a leader in social responsibility and a firm believer in the principles of sustainable development. We have several green initiatives that are both internally focused on reducing our environmental footprint and outwardly focused on educating the students we work with about sustainable development and "green" careers.

2)      Entrepreneurship - Discovery Internships believes in the power of choice, flexibility, and freedom. We believe that all students should have the opportunity to achieve their potential. We know that entrepreneurship can be a path to success and we are passionate about encouraging those brave enough to pursue it though several initiatives.

3)      Healthcare/Medicine - Discovery Internships is one of the top internship placement firms in the medical, healthcare, and pharmaceutical spaces. Through our relationships with hospitals, clinics, and pharmaceutical companies we are helping to train and inspire the next generations of doctors, nurses, and researchers.