Skills for Rhode Island's Future | Jobs in Rhode Island
SkillsRI offers job search support, career enhancement services, and free training program opportunities to unemployed and underemployed Rhode Island residents.
LEARN
PrepareRI interns learn critical work readiness skills, explore careers and learn about real workplace expectations.
EARN
PrepareRI interns are paid $13.00/hr and can work up to 280 hrs. Earn up to $3,360 during the summer of 2022.
CONNECT
PrepareRI interns are matched with one of SkillsRI’s 180 employer partners.
Start building your future today through the PrepareRI Internship Program which provides high school students with paid summer experiential learning internships connecting school learning with the world of work.
*In-Person Internships for 2022
The placed-based internship model for 2022 is subject to change based on the ongoing public health concerns with the COVID-19 pandemic. Should the program need to become virtual, students and parents will be notified immediately of any changes to the program.
As COVID-19 quickly impacted plans for the 2020 and 2021 high school internship programs, SkillsRI launched an entirely reimagined summer internship program, the Innovation Challenge, in 2020 and 2021 which brought together high school interns from across Rhode Island for a real-world view into the evolving work landscape.
The Innovation Challenge presented an engaging virtual internship experience that encompassed gamification and challenges, team-engagement, professional communication and innovative research and design. Interns formed their own student-run corporations, collaborated across remote teams, built and pitched viable solutions that addressed real-world challenges companies and industries are actively facing due to COVID-19 and other workforce and market factors.
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