Summer Youth Internship Program Kicks off 11th Anniversary Year by Connecting M-DCPS Students with Local Businesses

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) Superintendent Dr. Jose L. Dotres; Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava; Miami Dade College President Madeline Pumariega; President & CEO of The Children's Trust James R. Haj; Executive Director of Career Source South Florida, Rick Beasley; President of EdFed-The Educational Federal Credit Union, Michael DiBenedetto; Program Officer of the Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation, Judith B. Fletcher; Executive Director of the Foundation for New Education Initiatives, Erin M. Sicker; internship business partners, M-DCPS students

The Summer Youth Internship Program (SYIP) 11^thAnniversary Kick-Off event

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

8:30 a.m.

Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus

Chapman Conference Center

300 NE 2nd Ave

Miami, FL 33132

The SYIP Kick-Off event will recognize the major funders of the program, as well as SYIP internship employers in an effort to recruit even more businesses to participate. Attendees will also hear directly from previous student interns about how they benefited from the experience and what they learned.

M-DCPS is partnering with The Children's Trust, Miami-Dade County, Career Source South Florida, EdFed - The Educational Federal Credit Union, the Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation and the Foundation for New Education Initiatives to offer internships, which are available to 10th- to 12th-grade students who complete the application process by May 1, 2026. All new and former employers must register at miamiinterns.org and can hire up to ten interns.

Last year 3,661 students from 92 schools successfully completed internships with 924 employers from hundreds of different career paths, from engineering to culinary arts, childcare and even veterinary medicine. M-DCPS and its partners invested $7 million in the program last summer.

Elmo R. Lugo, Media Relations Director at [email protected].