The North Carolina State Highway Patrol Summer Program
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) offers a high school internship program designed to provide students with hands-on experience in public safety careers, offering a 40-hour program with non-enforcement duties and professional standards.
The program takes 5 students from each school.
Deadline: June 10 (when the 5 slots are filled, no more applications will be accepted)
Dates: June 22-27, 2025
Log into the Competition/Scholarship Google Classroom for more information and to access the application.
NC State Design Lab / Spring 2025 / Weekend Workshops
Only 4 Workshops remaining this semester!
Workshops are held at NCSU on Saturdays from 9:00am - 4:00pm and will introduce students to design thinking and the design process through challenge-based activities. Through these workshops, students will have the opportunity to develop a better understanding of our designed world and find answers to these questions: What is design? How do designers think?
April 26 // Architecture
April 26 // Media Arts, Design and Technology
Prior to Registering, Please Read the Following:
Registration Process and Policies
- The registration fee for each online workshop ranges from $60 – $100. Payment is due upon registration. Students may register for multiple weekend workshops at a time, but SHOULD only register for one workshop per Saturday. All forms and payment must be completed in order for registration to be finalized.
- Registration will remain open for each workshop up until 6 calendar days prior to its date.
- Those who have completed registration and payment will receive a confirmation email immediately. And all registrants will receive an email at least 5 business days prior to the start of their workshop with further information on procedures and protocols.
- Each workshop will take place on Saturdays from 9:00am – 4:00pm with Lunch at noon. Lunch will be provided for all workshops; our staff and instructor will accompany students to Clark Dining Hall, near our location on campus.
- Students should arrive between 8:45am – 8:55am and students must leave or be picked up no later than 4:15pm. Drop-off, Pick-up, and Parking information will be shared after registration is complete.
- Cancellations for Weekend Workshops: We must receive request for cancellation in writing via email to designlab_k12@ncsu.edu. Cancellations made 10 calendar days prior to a workshop are eligible for a full refund. Cancellations made 5 calendar days prior to a workshop are eligible for a 50% refund OR request to have their program fees donated to our Design Lab outreach funds. If the workshop is cancelled by the Design Lab, full refunds will be issued. Refunds can only be issued by the same means of the original payment.
- Due to the upfront costs of our workshops, this is a firm policy, as we are not able to provide refunds for money that has already been allocated towards workshop expenses.
If you have any questions, please email designlab_k12@ncsu.edu.
NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher: Summer Volunteer Program Applications OPENS March 17th
The Summer Teen Volunteer Program itself will run from Sunday, June 15th-Monday, August 9th. Summer Teens are expected to volunteer for 50 hours for the summer at the Aquarium. This is about 8 hours per week and usually consists of 2 4-hour shifts, but we are flexible about what would work best with your schedule. Participants will also be required to attend 3 learning opportunities throughout the program. These opportunities will be both on and offsite. Examples include shadowing husbandry team members at the Aquarium, touring Carolina Beach State Park with a ranger to learn about park maintenance and fire suppression, and beach clean-ups in our community. You are allowed to attend more than 3 of these programs.
The Summer Camp Counselor in Training Program will run from Monday, June 16th-Friday, August 15th. This program is for current or new NCAFF teen volunteers. Counselors in Training support NCAFF staff during summer camps (2-week requirement). Duties include assisting with crafts, including setup, help during the crafts, and cleanup, assisting with games or activities, storytime for younger campers, assisting with lunch set up, serving, and cleanup, including helping load and unload the dishwasher, making lemonade, cleaning off tables, sweeping the floor, taking out compost, trash, and/or recycling, and assisting with equipment cleanup.
*Registration for both programs will run from Monday, 3/17- Monday, 4/28*
Apply and Info HERE
Cape Fear River Watch - 2nd Saturday Clean-Up
Each month on the 2nd Saturday, CFRW conducts a community clean-up somewhere in the local Cape Fear area. Clean-ups are almost always from 9am-11am. Anyone can sign-up to join the clean-up event. CFRW staff provide gloves, trash/recycle bags, and grabbers for volunteers. Check the calendar each month as locations are usually TBD until about a week before. You should register to attend so they will have enough supplies. Click on the event in the CFRW calendar to register.
Special Olympics Youth Innovation Project - ages 14-25
A Youth Innovation Project is a project that is designed, planned, and implemented by Youth Leaders to promote inclusion in their communities. Students would create their own project, working with a local Special Olympics chapter to be implemented in their school or another community group (like a church). Project has to be completed over 6-9 months (good project for the summer?)
Reagan Mauk
Email: reagan.mauk@nhcs.net
NHHS Office: 501
Laney Office: 401 in media center