Internships

Student Work Experiences - Spring 2025

 

 

SPPS partners with the City of Saint Paul’s Right Track program to offer youth employment experiences and strengthen college and career opportunities in high schools across the district. Spring internships are an incredible way for students to gain work experience while in high school and learn about how businesses work.

Since starting the program in 2021, over 450 SPPS students have completed work experiences with more than 100 employer partners. Students have completed work experiences in business and communications, human services, innovative and emerging technologies, and science and medical fields.

Information for SPPS High School Students:

For Spring Internships 2025, students will have an opportunity to choose between YJ1 and YJ2 internships:

Youth Jobs 1 (YJ1)

YJ1 is for SPPS students, aged 14-19 years old, who are looking to gain their foundational job skills through their first or second work experience. The Spring YJ1 internship primarily provides job experiences at Recreational Centers, Libraries and nonprofits. Spring YJ1 interns will earn $13.50 per hour. 

Youth Jobs 2 (YJ2)

YJ2 building on those foundational skills by providing internships to young people, ages 16 to 21, at career-focused organizations and businesses across the industries. The internship experience in the Spring YJ2 internship incorporates an increased level of independent work and project-based work. Participants are requires to have some work experience. Wages are primarily paid for by employers, with interns earning a minimum of $15.57 per hour. 

SPPS high school students interested in applying for a paid spring 2025 internship can sign up using the Right Track registration form. Please contact your WBL Coordinator if you have questions about the Career Seminar course.

Information for Potential Business Partners:

Saint Paul Public Schools is seeking local business partners to host work experiences for high school students in spring 2025. High school students greatly benefit from gaining this meaningful work experience and exploring career possibilities.

Business and organization partners are asked to hire two student interns from February 24 to May 16, 2025, for up to 100 hours. Work experiences can be project-based or job shadowing where students meet with different departments within an organization.

Interested employers can contact the Work-Based Learning Coordinator at the high school they are interested in working with (see contacts below). Apply by the end of October to guarantee interns for this spring. We appreciate our employer partners for supporting the next generation of leaders!

SPPS High School Work-Based Learning Coordinators:

AGAPE HS                            sang.le@spps.org 

Central HS                             jennifer.singerhouse@spps.org

Como Park HS                       mike.zamacona@spps.org 

Creative Arts HS                    sang.le@spps.org

Gordon Parks                         larry.iwen@spps.org

Harding HS                            jerome.utecht@spps.org 

Highland Park HS                  kristine.somerville@spps.org 

Humboldt HS                         anna.parvi@spps.org 

Johnson HS                           mary.voigt@spps.org 

LEAP HS                                 sang.le@spps.org

Open World Learning (OWL) anna.parvi@spps.org 

SPPS Online School              ann.wothe@spps.org 

Washington HS                     TBD