Internship Opportunities

We don't have any open positions at this time.

Students' academic and career goals are positively impacted when they have the opportunity to experience work-based learning. Recognizing this, the MPC Foundation collaborates with MPC’s Work Experience program to facilitate internship placement throughout Monterey County. 

Since lower income students often can’t afford to participate in unpaid internships that may be offered by non-profit organizations, government agencies, or small start-up businesses, MPC Foundation provides stipends to qualifying students so that they can take advantage of these valuable work experiences, rather than working low-skill jobs that don’t offer the same professional networking and skill-building opportunities.

Stipends are currently funded by generous donors and funding agencies, including the Monterey Peninsula Foundation and Chevron. In addition, we are actively building an endowment fund that will provide a sustained source of revenue for future generations of students. 

One of our students who completed an internship at the Naval Post Graduate school explains, “[My internship] positively influenced me by giving me the opportunity to earn extremely valuable practical experience, making me realize that I can do so much more than I thought I could in terms of being a lab scientist, and teaching me about the many careers I didn't know existed in biochemical and chemical engineering. My experience introduced me to a great mentor and great people in STEM."

If you are interested in supporting internships, read more about our Internship Endowment here.