Opportunities for K-12 and undergraduate students

Please note: Only some of these resources are from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. As a resource, this page also lists other organizations that offer programs for students. Please contact the individual programs directly for details on their offerings.

K-12 Opportunities in Ocean Science at WHOI and beyond

Experiences:

Visit WHOI

You can visit our Ocean Science Discovery Center to learn about ocean exploration vessels, vehicles, and tools developed and used by WHOI. Depending on your group size and age, we also offer dock tours.

WHOI Sea Grant Ocean STEAM Powered Women Fellowship

Residential summer research experience for rising juniors and seniors in a Massachusetts high school, 1 week. All costs are covered.

N ew England Aquarium Teen Programs

The aquarium offers a variety of teen programs including summer paid teen internships.

Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, MA

There are a variety of high school programs both on shore or at sea ranging from 2 to 3 weeks.

Summer Programs for Young Adults in the Woods Hole, MA area

There are ocean focused summer camps and other opportunities listed on this site.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Student Opportunities Database

There are opportunities across the US!

Useful websites to explore:

WHOI K-12 Page

This website includes information about our research, a variety of ocean topics, coloring pages, images, videos illustrations, and more!,

Marine Careers Website

This website will introduce you to a wide range of marine career fields and folks working in the field. Take the quiz to see which career is right for you!

The Marine Mammal Center

A great website for students to learn more about commonly known marine mammals! Briefly classifies and describes different marine mammals.

National Aquaculture Association

This is a great website to learn all about aquaculture

Maine Aquaculture Association

A great video repository about shellfish farming that highlights what a day in the job looks like

Free online course

Entry Level Oyster Farm Worker and Science, Safety, and Best Practices for Oyster Farming Workers

Instructables website

Step by step instruction on how to build and create everything from simple crafts all the way to complete robots.

Arduino Website

The Arduino world is a great place to start for folks that are interested in learning how to code with a little device. This helps to make code physical as opposed to just something that lives on your computer. Learn to blink an LED, spin a motor and interface with sensors!

For K-12 Educators:

WHOI K-12 Page

This website includes information about our research, a variety of ocean topics, LTER data literacy workshops, interactives, and more! Coming soon - our resources will be searchable and linked to NGSS standards as well as Ocean Literacy standards!

WHOI Sea Grant K-12 Education Page

We run educator workshops twice a year, have classroom lesson plans and activities, as well as other great resources.

Sea Grant Bridge Ocean Science Education Page

This is a curated page of activities, background information, and data series.

NOAA Education Page

This is a curated page of opportunities and resources from across NOAA for students and educators.

Undergraduate Opportunities in Ocean Science at WHOI and beyond

WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (SSF)

Residential summer research experience for rising seniors, 10-12 weeks. Stipend, housing and travel allowance provided.

Community College Research Experience at WHOI (CC-CREW)

Full-time summer research experience for MA community college students. Stipend provided and travel allowance provided.

WHOI Blue Economy Internship for Cape Cod Community College students

Includes short course and research internship placement for spring semester (part-time). Stipend and travel allowance provided.

WHOI - UMass Dartmouth Internship

Includes short course and research internship placement for spring semester (part-time), co-advised by WHOI and UMassD advisors. Stipend and travel allowance provided; WHOI housing provided for 3 weeks on-site.

Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP)

A program of the Woods Hole Diversity Initiative. Residential 10-week summer research experience for undergraduates, including a 4-week course for credit. Stipend, housing and travel allowance provided.

Inclusive NOAA Fisheries Internship Program (IN FISH)

Full time 10-week summer research or management experience including 2 weeks of a course for credit. Stipend, tuition, and course supplies provided. (Locations across the country)

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF REU) in Ocean Science