Pick your name. Your answers save as you go — no “save” button — and you can leave and pick up right where you left off.
Parking-lot questions are on a separate page: /parking
VCS already invests heavily in student formation through our A³ programs — but almost all of that happens on campus, among peers, under our own supervision. An internship is different: it’s the first time a student represents VCS, and themselves, in front of an adult who didn’t choose to mentor them out of obligation. That’s where calling starts to feel real instead of theoretical — where “what do I want to do with my life” gets tested against an actual life.
This isn’t about resume-building. It’s about giving students one real rehearsal for adult responsibility before they leave for college, with VCS still standing behind them if it goes sideways.
You’ve spent years being graded on hypotheticals. This is the first time the “grade” is a real adult deciding whether your work was actually useful to them — and that’s a different kind of test than any AP exam.
A site visit or shadow day lets you watch. This doesn’t. You get a name, a desk, real deadlines, and a supervisor who’s going to notice if you show up late or ask good questions. That’s uncomfortable in a useful way — it’s the closest thing to “is this actually what I want to do” that you’ll get before you’re picking a major.
And it doesn’t disappear when summer ends: a host who saw you show up and do the work is a recommendation letter with actual weight behind it — not “wrote a nice essay,” but “I watched them work and I’d hire them again.”