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That might be difficult ... at least for a paid internship. Most companies look for 3rd or 4th year student interns.
Likely the wrong place for solicitations of internships. This is a car forum after all, and the field of engineering is quite wide even within sub-disciplines. There are typically career fairs hosted by the school.
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Boston Dynamics in Waltham?
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Or, if your school has a career services department, which likely has some connections to other companies, your son could get into contact with them.
Some advice from a fellow student (not in college, though), don't forget to ask smaller companies that may not be as well known (if the purpose for an internship is gathering field experience), even if they don't have an official intern program! For reference, I've got a spreadsheet of smaller companies for my intended field, and even just shooting some employees/executives from those companies a quick email or asking to have a coffee chat with them can go a long way in terms of networking and gathering some insight (and possibly spiral towards an internship). These smaller companies are generally willing to hire interns, even more so considering your son is fine with an unpaid internship (think about that from the perspective of those companies, which may not have much staff). It did take a LOT of searching, but eventually I got an internship (not in engineering) using that tactic. None of the places I asked had official intern programs (as those dont exist in my field at my level).
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Isn't hiring 14-year-olds illegal in the U.S. . . . or have I lost track of how long it's been since you were 13?
But I'm curious, though. Just what "field" is a young teenager in?
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I think you will need to look out of state. Where my husband works has interns and while this summer's positions are already filled, the intern assigned to him this time is a sophomore (2nd year) in the engineering program. We are in Illinois though (not MA)
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I'm not "in" a field, I meant I was interning for a field. To my knowledge, it is perfectly legal to have a 14 year old as an intern. This will also be in the summer, by which time I’ll be 15. The field in which I’m interning for is finance, and I’m doing it specifically to learn more about financial modeling and conducting proper general market research, both of which are among the things I’ll need to be proficient at for my career (investment banking). One more thing I want to only see is how much algorithms are used (probably not much) and where they could potentially be implemented by me for my role in the future. Although it’s called an “internship”, I’m pretty sure I’ll just be a excel and PowerPoint monkey, which is fine by me as I can still shadow other employees and get to learn more, which is the main reason I’m going. Doing actual impactful work will sadly probably be reserved until I’m doing college internships, since there’s a pretty low chance a company trusts a teenager with any kind of impactful work (in the field of finance specifically).
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Sometimes I can't decide whether you're 14 going on 40, or 40 going on 14. 
I do enjoy your posts, though.
I do enjoy your posts, though.
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I consider both parts of that a compliment, so thanksSometimes I can't decide whether you're 14 going on 40, or 40 going on 14.
I do enjoy your posts, though.
Anyways, not to hijack the thread. Perhaps this thread would be better placed in the "off-topic" section(although that could limit visibility, maybe keep it here for some time), or maybe post this in the North East Lucid regional group (https://lucidowners.com/groups/northeast-lucid-regional-area.9/)!
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71Sometimes I can't decide whether you're 14 going on 40, or 40 going on 14.
I do enjoy your posts, though.
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If you're planning to go into investment banking, you'll be an Excel and PowerPoint monkey for your first several years as an associate .... And get to stay up all night with the young law firm associates, senior associates and junior partners working with your investment bank ....
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Not yet, been canvassing the area. I think those that offer internships may have already found them.
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Add analysts to that, and you are pretty much spot on lol. Associates are getting more involvement these days though, and the "90 hour weeks" portrayed in the media are EXTREMELY rare (normal hours are still high at about 60-80 a hour depending on your firm, but oh well).
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Sorry, @dsherris, I wasn't referring to you. I was referring to our forum teenager who, oddly enough, never seems to be in school.
