Please join the Student Conservation Association (SCA) for an upcoming info session to learn about our Career Discovery Internship Program for college students who are Black, Alaskan Native, American Indian,Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, or other racial minority.

Since 2008, the SCA has partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide summer internships for nearly 300 students from culturally and ethnically diverse backgrounds. The program was created to prepare the next generation of wildlife professionals by introducing college students of color to careers in conservation. Participants must be incoming college sophomores and juniors.

Interns attend a week-long orientation held in May and serve in summer internships tailored to various U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service career tracks. As part of the Youth in the Great Outdoors Initiative, the program gives students hands-on public lands service. During the 12-week program, interns work at various sites across the country.