Genentech Foundation Futurelab Scholarship
The Genentech Foundation's Futurelab Scholarship awards ten scholarships (totaling over $100,000 per year) to graduating seniors from the South San Francisco Unified School District who plan to pursue STEM degrees, including biotechnology and biomedical engineering; past recipients have gone on to intern or work at Genentech.
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SEAONC High School Scholarship
The Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) awards $2,500 scholarships to high school students planning to pursue structural engineering, architecture, or construction-related careers, with priority given to women, underrepresented minorities, and students with disabilities.
PG&E Better Together STEM Scholarship
The PG&E Corporation Foundation awards $2,500-$10,000 scholarships to high school seniors (and other students) within PG&E's California service territory who plan to study engineering (electrical, mechanical, power/energy), computer science, or related STEM fields at an accredited four-year college.
ASME INSPIRE / Charles W.E. Clarke Scholarship
ASME's INSPIRE program awards twenty-five $2,000 Charles W.E. Clarke scholarships to graduating high school seniors with financial need who plan to enroll in an ABET-accredited mechanical engineering program.
SIREN Youth Leadership Internship
A paid year-long internship with SIREN (Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network) in which youth ages 16-25 organize alongside immigrant and refugee communities in the Bay Area (San Jose) or Central Valley (Fresno), building leadership and community-organizing skills. Interns support SIREN's Youth Leadership Institute programming and civic engagement campaigns.
Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes - Biomedical Engineering
A two-week online course through Stanford's Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes that introduces students to biomedical engineering topics including implantable devices, neural interfaces, prosthetics, and AI applications in medicine, culminating in a capstone prosthetic-arm design project.
UCGHI Summer Global Health Bootcamp
A free, two-week virtual bootcamp from the UC Global Health Institute where rising California high school seniors attend interactive lectures and case discussions with UC faculty and grad students on topics like climate/planetary health, gender and health justice, and infectious disease. Offered in place of UCGHI's full six-week research internship, which is paused for 2026 due to funding limits.