2025 Internships
We are Girls Code the World, a nonprofit organization that aims to empower young girls in STEM, not only by encouraging them to enter related fields, but by becoming leaders and instilling confidence through mentorship. Our projects and curriculum focus on real-life applications to coding, natural sciences, and engineering.
Our 2025 Internships run from January 2025 through July 2025. The deadline to apply is January 3, 2025.
Current Open Roles
Grant Writing
Become an essential part of our mission by helping to secure the funding that drives our programs empowering women and girls in STEM. You'll play a pivotal role in telling our story to potential funders, showcasing the impact of our initiatives, and sharing the passion that fuels our organization. This could include:
Explore various funding sources and identify grants that align with our mission and programs
Collaborate with our team to craft persuasive narratives that highlight our work and its significance
Collect data, testimonials, and success stories to strengthen our grant applications
Help track deadlines and ensure all submission requirements are met in a timely manner
Your Supervisor
Marketing, Communications, and Public Relations (MCPR)
Showcase what makes our organization so special, ranging from our incredible volunteers & employees all the way to our unique curriculum. You will play a part in sharing the stories, statistics, and passion behind this organization. This could include:
Content creation for the organization's website, blog, or newsletter
Managing social media accounts, engaging with similar organizations and potential users of our materials
Create and schedule posts, engage with followers, and foster relationships with similar organizations and communities
Your Supervisor
Curriculum
Align our existing lessons to match our mission, interact with our audiences to understand their needs and behaviors, and develop the framework for us to continue building out the curriculum once the internship is complete so that we can ensure these changes are sustainable. Some of the tasks to complete will include:
Developing 10-15 new lessons plans, both in-person and virtual formats, targeted around elementary, middle/high school level biology, chemistry, mathematics, environmental science, physics, technology, engineering, and coding
Structuring educational program plans that have targeted themes utilizing certain lesson plans (i.e. lessons to include in our Subscription Based programming)
Your Supervisor
Skills and Qualities
Our interns are:
Highly organized
Driven and committed
Patient
Interested in STEM fields
Devoted to woman-based mentorship
Commit to community engagement
Good communicators
Adaptable
Leaders by taking initiative
Roles and Responsibilities
Our internships are low time commitment volunteer opportunities to work on long-term projects and have execution responsibilities within the organization.
Our interns meet bi-weekly with a supervisor and align on action tasks.
Our 2025 Internship will run from January 2025 through July 2025.
We generally expect our interns to commit 3-4 hours of work a week (including any meetings) to build momentum and complete tasks in a reasonable timeframe, but this can be flexible.
This is a great option for people looking for short-term skilled work experience, recommendation letters, or resume boosters.
Requirements
Must be a high school or college student
Highly recommended to have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0
Timeline and Deadlines
Deadline for this application is January 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM. The timeline will be as follows:
Deadline: Friday, January 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Final decisions: Sunday, January 5, 2025 by 11:59 PM
Deadline to accept your offer: Friday, January 10, 2025 by 11:59 PM
2025 Intern Kickoff and Orientation (mandatory for newly selected interns): Sunday, January 12, 2025 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
This will be an in-person event in Philadelphia, PA — please mark your calendar in advance.
Application
Girls Code the World is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides resources, role models, and opportunities for young girls in science, technology, engineering, and math through STEM-related educational programming and extended mentorships. It was founded by Sydney Gibbard and Mina Shokoufandeh in 2018.
We work with a primarily socioeconomically disadvantaged and underrepresented community. Our curriculum for our educational programs should target our population's interests. This means our curriculum must be engaging for youth, should inspire them with role models that come from a similar background, and must expose them to a variety of opportunities within the STEM fields.
Girls Code the World is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.