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Fermilab offers a variety of internship programs for high school, undergraduate and graduate students, secondary school teachers, and professionals. Working alongside our scientific, engineering, computing, and operations professionals, our interns support and advance particle physics and accelerator research.
Application deadlines, length of assignments, selection process, eligibility and requirements vary by program. Explore the site to find the program that is right for you or use the Internships Quiz by selecting the banner below to narrow down your choices!
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Internship Programs
PRISM – Program for Research Innovation and STEM Mentorship
This program provides the opportunity for students to explore cutting-edge STEM fields while connecting with Fermilab STEM professionals.
TARGET
A work and hands-on experiential learning opportunity for Illinois high school sophomores and juniors interested in undergraduate study and careers in STEM disciplines.
TECHS – Technician Education for Careers out of High School
A work and hands-on experiential learning opportunity for Illinois high school rising juniors interested in pursuing technical fields upon graduating high school.
VALOR JROTC – Veteran Applied Laboratory Occupational Retraining
The VALOR JROTC program invites high school cadets to experience technical hands-on training during the summer months.
ASPIRE – Advancing Scholars in Physics and Innovative Research in Engineering
ASPIRE provides immersive learning experiences in accelerator engineering fields at Fermilab.
CCI – Community College Internships
Sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Science, community college students are immersed in STEM technical training during the summer months.
Cooperative Education Program
Undergraduate students work alongside world-class scientists and engineers. Students apply what they learn at their home institutions to cutting-edge experiments and projects vital to Fermilab’s scientific mission.
Fermilab and Brookhaven Summer School Exchange Program
The Fermilab and Brookhaven Summer School Exchange Program is a unique opportunity for undergraduate freshmen majoring in STEM fields to participate in a summer school experience at both Fermilab and Brookhaven National Laboratory.
LBNF/DUNE, SD
Undergraduate engineering internship for students majoring in mining and related fields who are interested in working at a major underground construction project, and undergraduate business students interested in learning more about construction procurement and management.
QCIPU – Quantum Computing Internship for Physics Undergraduates
Physics undergraduate three-week online-only program for students interested in quantum computing for the simulation of physics to gain hands-on Python and Qiskit programming experience.
SIST – Summer Internships in Science and Technology
Undergraduate sophomores and juniors majoring in physics, engineering (mechanical, electrical and computer), materials science, mathematics and computer science conduct research with Fermilab scientists and engineers.
SULI – Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship
Sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Science, undergraduate physics or engineering majors work with scientists or engineers on projects at the frontier of particle physics research.
URA-Fermilab: Undergraduate Women in STEM
This program engages women science and engineering undergraduate students from under-represented groups to conduct research at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in fulfillment of its mission, concluding with full-time employment at the laboratory.
VALOR VetTech Internship Program
Military veterans provide routine technical support for an assigned experiment or support group. The program assumes apprentice-level expertise, general military experience, and/or knowledge based on academic study.
US CMS Undergraduate Internship
The US CMS Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program seeks to address the under-representation of women and minoritized students in STEM fields, in particular Physics. It is a 10-week paid internship program, which offers female and minority undergraduate students an opportunity to perform a project under the mentorship of scientists working at the frontier of Physics at one of the 50+ institutions in the United States.
ASPIRE – Advancing Scholars in Physics and Innovative Research in Engineering
ASPIRE provides immersive learning experiences in accelerator engineering fields at Fermilab.
CSGF – Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Summer opportunity for doctoral candidates in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems.
FCSI – Fermilab Computational Science Internship
Graduate student cybersecurity, cloud-based distributed computing, big data, high-performance computing, machine learning, and quantum computing opportunity to use cutting-edge tools and technology.
GEM – Graduate Fellowships in Engineering and Science
The GEM Program recruits and supports Master’s and doctoral students pursuing science and engineering degrees.
High Energy Physics Center for Computational Excellence: Graduate Student Summer Internship Program
Computationally-oriented graduate students attending U.S. institutions interested in new educational, training, and research opportunities in the high-energy physics areas of cosmic, energy, and intensity are exposed to leading-edge computational areas including next-generation architectures, the use of high-performance computing resources for data-intensive tasks, and analysis of large-scale data sets.
NSF Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship
Mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics summer internship for graduate students pursuing a career in academia or industry.
SCGSR – Science Graduate Research Program
Graduate awardees receive funds to conduct part of their thesis research at a host DOE laboratory/facility.
Italian Student Program
Graduate physics and engineering students attending Italian universities conduct summer research at Fermilab.
Fermilab QIS Summer Institute for K-12 STEM Educators
Summer Quantum Information Science (QIS) content-training opportunity for K-12 STEM educators.
TRAC – Teacher Research Associates
Professional summer experience for science, mathematics, computer science and technology teachers.
VALOR Apprenticeship – Veteran Applied Laboratory Occupational Retraining
The VALOR Apprenticeship provides hands-on training experiences and full-time technical career placement at Fermilab to military veterans at the start of their civilian career. Apprenticeships begin during Fall & Spring.
VALOR VetTech Internship Program
Military veterans provide routine technical support for an assigned experiment or support group. The program assumes apprentice-level expertise, general military experience, and/or knowledge based on academic study.
VFP – Visiting Faculty Program
Sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Science, faculty and student teams conduct hands-on research to support and advance innovation and workforce development.