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Frontier internships for high school students

The frontier is hiringearlier than you think.

Screened internships at vetted startups across 23 sectors, from spacecraft to synthetic biology. Free to apply.

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At sixteen you can train a model, publish research, or machine a part to spec. What you cannot do is get past the front desk of the companies doing it for real. Skill shows up early now. Access does not. First Orbit exists to close that gap.

A humanoid robot under work lights in a test facility

These rooms have no door for a student. We built one.

Not a course about the field. A desk inside it: the test stand, the wet lab, the trading floor. You take a real task and the room watches you carry it.

Choose your frontier.

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Every seat is earned.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Founders make the final call.

How selection works

Your first orbit starts on the ground.

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