Every spring, Rowland Hall highlights upcoming summer internships in our annual Only at Rowland Hall publication. Since that feature, this year’s program grew, adding three new opportunities for students in summer 2025.

This year, 24 Rowland Hall students and recent graduates participated in 15 internship experiences. These opportunities, made possible by generous community partners, allowed participants to explore careers of interest and enjoy real-world experiences in a variety of professional fields:

• Bakery Maison Hector (international food service)
• House of Eos (digital content creation)
• Mayan Languages Preservation and Digitization Project (language preservation)
• McNeill Von Maack (law)
• People's Health Clinic (marketing)
• Redemption Holding Company (business and entrepreneurship)
• Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District (land stewardship)
• The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital (biomechanics and human performance)
• The University of Utah (conservation biology)
• The University of Utah, Drakos Clinical and Research Team (cardiac recovery)
• The University of Utah (isotope geochemistry)
• The University of Utah, Williams Lab (neurobiology and anatomy)
• The University of Utah, Zelikowsky Lab (neurobiology of social states)
• The University of Utah (neuroscience and molecular biology)
• Waldorf Astoria (finance)

Over the weeks, interns engaged in many exciting tasks, strengthening skills like communication, writing, and mathematical calculation, and trying out brand-new ones: data mapping, financial analytics, MATLAB coding, arbitrator vetting, and even practicing surgical techniques on rats. Whatever they took on, students reported that their time in the Upper School greatly prepared them to thrive as interns. For instance, senior Sophia Hijjawi, who created a website wireframe during her internship at the Mayan Languages Preservation Project, said her computer science courses were instrumental to her success.

“I learned about the theoretical power of cooperation in computer science in both AP Computer Science Principles and AP Computer Science A,” Sophia wrote. “Practicing this skill in the classroom was an amazing first glance at the real world of programming and equipped me with the skills I needed to effectively communicate with team members and work towards collaborative solutions during this internship.”

Across the board, mentors reported that the Rowland Hall interns were professional, courteous, curious, organized, prepared, hardworking, and responsible.

The interns also made an impression on their mentors, who across the board reported that they were professional, courteous, curious, organized, prepared, hardworking, and responsible— one even likened a rising senior’s performance to that of an undergraduate.

“The Rowland Hall interns were a pleasure to work with,” wrote Flora Ye, a neurobiology researcher at the University of Utah’s Williams Lab, who mentored five of the school’s interns this summer. “They were not only polite and respectful but also remarkably quick learners who mastered new concepts with ease. Their genuine passion was evident, and their overall performance exceeded our expectations.”

Congratulations to all of our interns on a successful summer, and a big thank you to the community partners who make these transformative experiences possible. We look forward to seeing how the program continues to grow in summer 2026.

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