Student Opportunities

Put your skills to work and find an internship, study abroad program, service learning project, or other learning opportunity below. Check back often for updates and new opportunities.

Camp Promise is a week long experience for adults and teens with neurodegenerative disorders. These camps are looking for counselors, photographers, culinary arts, and other enthusiasts to provide services during this week.

This experience is ideal for a variety of majors like education, human services, health sciences, hospitality, marketing and digital media, and liberal arts. Learn more at their website.

The City of Virginia Beach is offering multiple Information Technology, Human Resources, Emergency Management, Biology, and Engineering Internship opportunities. For more information on internships please view the “Internship Opportunities” document provided.

NOTE: The internship opportunities in Information Technology include IT Systems Analyst, IT Business Analyst, and IT Business Intelligence/Data Science.
Transcripts, Cover Letter and Resume are needed with the submission of your application.
To apply to an Information Technology Internship please visit.

VDH Summer Academy:

The Summer Internship Academy is a structured 10 week program that allows current or recent students to explore what it is like to work in at the Virginia Department of Health. The program is for students with a broad range of backgrounds, from accounting to graphic design, environmental health to biology, and public health to engineering, every field is applicable to the agency. The academy will be placing interns in many locations across the state.

The VA/MD WIC Dietetic Internship:

This internship is a fully accredited program whose mission is to offer a supervised experience program based on the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics Standards of Education and entry level program requirements which will produce highly competent community based registered dietitians who can work effectively in the changing healthcare environment.

Learn more on the VDH website about an existing program or customized internships by emailing internships@vdh.virginia.gov

“Our award winning internship program is more than just a few weeks and a project or two.  The interns in our program represent over 85 majors, come from over 93 different schools and live across the country. More than 70% of our interns return for multiple summers, and 75% of our senior interns receive offers of employment.”
We typically hire interns majoring in business, engineering, IT, liberal arts, math and science, and technology and trades.
For more information, contact:

LaShay Isaac – Intern Program Coordinator (lashay.isaac@dominionenergy.com)
Aaron Varella – Intern Recruiter (aaron.a.varella@dominionenergy.com)

Or visit the Dominion Virginia Power Career Website for a list of current opportunities.

HeroX is a crowdsourced project platform that allows groups or individuals to get together to develop a solution to a problem and win a prize.

Gather some of your friends and find a challenge at their website.

Student opportunities include: paid research experiences at NASA Langley and NASA Wallops in a variety of areas.

Please refer questions to NASA Research Experiences 

Melissa Brown, m11brown@odu.edu, 757.766.5210

Nicole Shaw, lnshaw@odu.edu, 757.766.5210