Teen Summer Research Program and Micro Internship

Work with our mentors including Alumni and PhDs from MIT, Brown, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, McGill, to publish your work in our journal: The International Journal of Social Good and Innovation for Young Scholars and participate in a health consulting experience

Empowering students and building confidence

The BioEndeavor mentorship and internship programs enable middle and early high school students to meet professors, university students and participate in mini internships

  • Work with health experts and pre-med students from MIT, Brown, McGill, Western , University of Toronto.

  • Understand integrative medicine and whole patient health. Build your clinical skills by practicing on interactive virtual patients.

  • Learn how technology is providing patients with autonomy over their health.

  • Explore how (biotech and pharmaceutical) drugs are discovered, health tech, AI in biomedicine, and even how climate change will change the role of doctors.

  • Participate in a guided, virtual experience with Pfizer; Create a patient centric drug launch strategy.

  • Hear from students/healthcare providers active in the climate space.

  • Learn how you can become active in the health and climate space to do good and strengthen your college application.

  • Students have enjoyed presentations by university professors, engineering, business, science undergraduates and professionals.

  • Our Numbers: 300 Alumni from our 2022-2024 STEAM and career development programming.

  • Apply by March 31 2026. APPLICATION LINK PROVIDED BELOW.

Learn more about our summer program designed by professors and patients

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Mentorship and Biomedical Work Experience

  • Topics

    Learn about patient engagement strategies across various diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and women's health; Understand the drug discovery process and craft a patient engagement strategy; Learn about digital health and emerging careers in this space; Explore how virtual care is changing health; Explore the role of doctors to protect patients from climate change.

  • Career Mentorship

    Explore emerging careers in the biomedical area; Explore academic programs in the biomedical and health sciences; Develop a unique high school portfolio to build confidence and do good in this area.

  • Internship

    Molecule to Market - Virtual Work Experience; Participate in a guided virtual experience in the pharmaceutical industry (with Pfizer in Partnership with The Forage); list the mentorship and experience on your resume.

  • Instructor

    Work with academics with over 15 years experience in health and medical innovation and post secondary school career planning.

  • Mentors

    Receive mentorship from patient family advisors with experience in cancer care, academics in biomedical sciences, health innovation and policy development, AI in medicine, pre-med students active in the climate health space, professionals working in healthcare.

  • Schedule

    July 13th to July 24th; work with our faculty and mentors in the morning. Engage in career and portfolio planning in the afternoon including designing a passion or social innovation (community) project including office hours with our faculty.

Apply Here

Complete our application form on or before March 31st 2026.

Apply here

Lead Faculty

Dr. Minna Allarakhia

Dr. Minna Allarakhia is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University. She is the founder of BioEndeavor and the Purposeful Learning school - seeking to inspire students to find their purpose and passion through STEAM for GOOD. The STEAM Accelerator is an initiative to empower middle and early high school students by sharing with and connecting students to exciting programs, schools, and STEAM careers. Dr. Allarakhia fundamentally believes that students must be engaged as early as grade 6 on planning their high school courses, designing a purposeful, meaningful and cohesive extracurricular portfolio, and learning how to design their post secondary educational pathways. It is more than about "getting into university/college" for Dr. Minna Allarakhia. It is about enabling personal clarity for her students on what success, fulfillment and balance means today, in high school, in undergraduate, graduate school and in life itself. She brings vast experience across the sciences, engineering disciplines, and in the management of technological innovation as Faculty and as an entrepreneur. Dr. Minna Allarakhia has studied at a number of institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Her kind demeanor and deep commitment to all students has been appreciated by the 100s of students each she has taught.

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