The City of Tampa’s Rising Explorers summer program has 70 paid internships available that can bring students money, inspiration, and invaluable career insight.<\/p>\n
Rising Explorers is for 16- to 19-year-olds who are current students at any Hillsborough County High School, public or private.<\/p>\n
The jobs pay $15 an hour, and the students will work 32 hours a week, from June 8-August 7.<\/p>\n
Application deadline is April 1. Visit tampa.gov\/internships for more information.<\/p>\n
“What a wonderful opportunity for dozens of eager students to get their careers going,” Mayor Jane Castor said. “They’ll get hands-on experience and make connections.”<\/p>\n
The program has been so successful that the number of internships has jumped this year from 48 to 70.<\/p>\n
“The Rising Explorers High School Internship Program is a launchpad,” Workforce Partnerships and Special Projects Director Brenda McKenzie said. “We believe that when we invest in young talent early, we don\u2019t just change their future trajectory, we strengthen ours.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Tampa’s Rising Explorers summer program has 70 paid internships available that can bring students money,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-194873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}