Summer 2025 High School Student Intern - Intro to VR (in-person at Meta HQ)

About Mission Bit

Mission Bit is a San Francisco-based nonprofit that inspires youth of color to explore the world of STEM with project-based computer science education that embraces their identities. We offer a variety of hands-on STEM education programs, including semester-long introductory coding courses.

This class is in partnership with Meta’s Youth Summer Academy hosted at the Meta HQ in Menlo Park, CA.

The role

As a Student Intern with us, you’ll be responsible for integrating critical thinking, problem-solving, creative thinking, communication, collaboration, and global citizenship into your classes, tracking student progress, and helping students realize their potential. This is a highly visible, student-facing role that reports directly to the Innovative Learning Manager.

We’re proud to provide training to all instructional staff to prepare them to teach, along with ongoing support throughout the semester!

If you have a passion for community, social justice, and coding, and if you want to uplift Bay Area youth and bridge the tech divide, then this might be the opportunity for you!

This is a seasonal, semester-based, hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It requires approximately 16 hours per week from May 29 to August 6, 2025.

Schedule

Instructor Training

• Live training (for instructors of in-person classes): Thursday, June 12, 10:00-2:30 in San Francisco, CA
• In addition to the live training session(s), staff are required to complete ~8 hours of self-paced training. All staff are required to complete and attend the trainings

Class Dates

• June 16, 2025 - July 25, 2025
• Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 9:45 AM - 2:45 PM

Weekly Meetings

• 1-hour weekly meetings with the instructional team on Mondays, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM over Zoom

Additional dates:

• Demo Day: TBD
• End-of-semester meeting: 30 minutes between August 4, 2025 to August 8, 2025

Hours

• 16+/- hours per week

Location

• in-person at Meta HQ (1 Hacker Wy, Menlo Park, CA 94025)

Responsibilities

• Support instructors and instructor’s assistants with their lectures, live-coding demonstrations, coding challenges, and Q&A sessions with students three times a week in the classroom
• Create an inclusive and community-based classroom culture surrounding the Mission Bit core values of social justice, community, accountability, smart risks, and love
• Dedicate 1-on-1 time to help students work on their projects
• Develop individual and meaningful relationships with students

• Must be currently enrolled in high school
• Have some technical experience in Game Design/Development, Unity, C#, and Virtual Reality
• Have some experience with Meta Quest 2
• Must be able to pass a technical skills assessment
• Strong understanding of the programming platforms
• Punctual, organized, and prepared
• Values aligned with Mission Bit and passion for sharing CS knowledge
• Experience in teaching
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable and compelling in public speaking situations
• Ability to work with a diverse group of individuals
• Self-starting with the ability to effectively work autonomously with little oversight
• Intelligent, dedicated, flexible with a willingness to experiment

• Accrued sick time-off

Pay

• $22.00 / hour

Mission Bit is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, veteran or military status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.