Laurel's signature internship and research assistantship program - Protégé - enables each student to focus on her unique passionate areas of interest and build an internship or a research assistantship in that area of interest. While other schools fit students into pre-developed internships and research projects, Laurel stands alone in starting with the student - focusing on her - helping her follow the future that is calling her.

Nicole E. and her mentor during Nicole's summer internship in nuclear engineering

We place our students in "satellite" relationships of two kinds:

• Internships provide students with an opportunity to learn about a specific field by undertaking actual supervised projects in the workplace.
• Research Assistantships place students in working research projects including medical research laboratories and social science research labs.

These out-of-school learning experiences occur during the school year in semester or year-long formats, as well as during the summer, and are recognized on the Laurel transcript.

Click here to see a list of previous Protégé projects

Click here to learn how to pass on contact information for a possible future Protégé project