Internships for high school students are hard to find because they are traditionally for college students. For this reason, finding one that meets your needs requires planning. An article on collegeboard.com that does good job answering the question how to find an internship is appropriately titled "How to Find an Internship".
In it, there was a little story about a high school student who landed an internship at a local newspaper to find out if she wanted to pursue journalism as a career. She learned a lot about the newspaper industry and decided to major in journalism in college.
Doing an internship in high school can give you a leg up in a lot of industries, especially journalism. Will a high school internship at a newspaper land you a full-time job after graduation? Probably not, but the contacts you make will help you later on when you start looking for jobs or other internships. It will also help you decide if you pocess a passion in the industry you interned in. If more people in high school did internships, I bet there would be less college freshmen who list "undecided" as their major.
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