Summer Highlights 2025

October 21, 2025

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For Boston Public Schools students across the city, Summer 2025 was full of meaningful employment and career exploration. This marked the second summer of Mayor Wu’s pledge to guarantee a job to any eligible BPS student who wanted one. Private sector companies and community-based organizations alike answered her call, opening their doors to provide paid early-work experiences.  

The Boston PIC plays a critical role within Mayor Wu’s futureBOS initiative, led by the Office of Youth Employment and Opportunity, which ensures that youth have access to work opportunities that facilitate professional and personal growth. This summer, we prepared and matched nearly 1,050 students with paid internships and jobs with our private sector and community-based organization partners. We assisted another 1,300 students with securing traditional teen summer jobs with employers in retail, accommodation and food services, and other industries. 

The PIC matched 635 students with employer-paid internships in a wide range of fields, including healthcare, financial services, and STEM-related industries, and 411 students were placed at community-based organizations. While the internship programs and roles varied, all students took critical steps in building their future careers.  

Several major hospitals—the core of Boston’s largest employment sector—partner with the PIC to give students hands-on healthcare experiences through internships. This summer, over 320 students explored the world of healthcare at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Mass General Hospital, and more. Interns worked in a wide range of departments, from Materials Management and Compliance to Orthopedics and Infectious Diseases, learning the breadth of roles available in healthcare. Many of the hospitals offered additional learning opportunities, including career conversation roundtables and networking with hospital staff across departments. PIC Career Specialists also visited hospitals to deliver workshops to students on professionalism.  

125 interns worked at top financial services companies, including Bank of America, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, John Hancock, Liberty Mutual Insurance, State Street, and more. Students worked in a variety of roles, such as investment management, information technology, and communications and marketing. Many financial services employers enhance their internship programs with workshops and career exploration activities. On Friday, August 8, John Hancock welcomed their interns, PIC students at other financial service companies, as well as John Hancock-funded MLK Scholars working in nonprofits, for a day of networking which included a personal branding workshop.

In addition to hiring interns, a few financial services companies expanded their commitment to youth employment by funding jobs at community-based organizations. Our thanks to Bank of America and Liberty Mutual for their significant support, which gave many young people the opportunity to build skills, confidence, and work experience, while strengthening the capacity of valued partner organizations.

STEM interns explored a wide range of fields, including biotechnology, engineering, and architecture. National Grid and Eversource Energy introduced their student interns to careers in the gas, electric, and clean energy sectors. Boston Society for Architecture organized a cohort of 14 students placed at 7 architecture firms across the city, providing opportunities for both collaborative group learning and individual worksite experience. At Vertex Pharmaceuticals, 32 interns learned about the wide array of roles and departments at a large biopharmaceutical company. In addition to contributing to the work of their respective departments, the students had the opportunity to conduct hands-on experiments in the Learning Lab in preparation for their final presentation.

The Tech Apprentice program, recently highlighted as an exemplar by Jobs for the Future, prepares youth for roles in technology. This year, 70 students deepened their technology skills as Tech Apprentices at private sector companies, and another 30 held similar technology-focused roles at CBO partners. Tech Apprentice interns worked at companies including ABCorp, Red Hat, and SmartBear, as well as in CBOs like STEAM Ahead and The Clubhouse Network. We are grateful to JPMorgan Chase for their support of the Tech Apprentice program. 

Interns working at over 70 community-based organizations across the city engaged in a wide range of roles and organizations across Boston’s neighborhoods. Some students provided critical childcare assistance, like the interns at Ceeds4Change and Boston Center for Youth and Families (BCYF) Mattahunt, while others worked in administrative or technical roles. At Timothy Smith Network’s Boston Design Academy, students had the opportunity to learn about 3D modeling. Through EdVestors’ Bloomberg Arts Internship program, 47 students were placed at arts and culture organizations where each intern contributed to their workplace, designed group projects, and dove deeper into the creative sector as a cohort through field trips, events, and workshops. 

Thank you to all of our partner companies, institutions, and organizations who hosted interns this summer. We’d especially like to thank our private sector anchor partners, who hired 10 or more students:

• Massachusetts General Brigham (including Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Mass General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, and Mass Eye and Ear) 
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 
• State Street 
• Vertex Pharmaceuticals 
• Boston Children’s Hospital 
• John Hancock 
• Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 
• Tufts Medical Center 
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
• Bank of America 
• Liberty Mutual Insurance