Hopkins Engineering Innovation & Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs Program & YouthWorks Partnership

Requirements for JHSJP-YouthWorks students who select EEI or SEE as their placement:

• Baltimore City residents  
• Baltimore City Public Schools students  
• Students at least 15 years old by March 31 of the program year  
• Good attendance throughout high school  
• Meet Engineering Innovation Academic Pre-Requisites:  
• As and Bs in your high school math and science classes.  

For EEI

• Completed Algebra II. 
• Completed a high school lab science course (Chemistry and/or Physics).  Many students feel that knowledge of physics is particularly helpful for the course. 
• Completed a course where the trigonometric functions are taught.  You must be able to use sine, cosine, tangent, and the Pythagorean Theorem to determine angles and side lengths for right-angle triangles.   

 For SEE 

• Completed Algebra II. 
• Completed a high school science course with a lab.  

Accepted students will:

• Be invited to attend Engineering FUNdamentals (a pre-course introduction to campus and a review of material needed for the courses)  the week before the course starts and have your participation paid at $15 an hour.
• Be paid $15 an hour for up to 25 hours per week to attend Explore Engineering Innovation or Sustainable Energy Engineering at the JHU Homewood campus as a commuter student. 
• Be paid $15 an hour for up to 25 hours per week while placed in a position in the Whiting School of Engineering either before and/or after your Engineering Innovation course
• Have the potential to receive three college credits from JHU  
• Have the opportunity to apply for a need-based full or partial scholarship to attend an Engineering Innovation course

Email the Engineering Innovation Office at [email protected].   

In the email, please include your full name, school, and email address and that you are interested in EI-JHSJP. You will receive specific instructions on how to complete the application.    

Complete an application for YouthWorks. When you complete the YouthWorks application, please select “Johns Hopkins” as your “Career Interests 1.”  Students applying for placement at Johns Hopkins, including in an Engineering Innovation course,  for summer 2026 must apply to YouthWorks; that application must be completed between January 2 and February 15, 2026*. More details on this application can be found on the YouthWorks website.  

*Note that the YouthWorks application is open through April 2026, but to be placed at Johns Hopkins, students must apply by an early deadline in February.

Complete an application for Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs Program (JHJSP). The application will be available between January 2 and February 15, 2026.

Complete an application for Engineering Innovation. The deadline for summer 2026 to take an EI course and be paid through JHSJP is February 15, 2026. NOTE: You can still apply to Hopkins EI Pre-College Programs after that date, but you will not be eligible to be paid through JHSJP.  

December 2025 

• Engineering Innovation online application is available here.   

January 2, through February 15, 2026

• YouthWorks application is open. Please select Johns Hopkins as your “Career Interests 1” when completing the application. 

• Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs Program application is open. 

• Students must apply to EI, JHSJP, and Youthworks to be considered for the program.   

February 15, 2026 

• Application deadline for students interested in applying to  EEI: In-Person or SEE: In-Person and JHSJP-YouthWorks.   

• **Note that students can apply to the courses after February 15, but they will not be eligible to be paid through the Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs Program – YouthWorks Collaboration.   

March 30, through May 15, 2026 

• Onboarding for JHSJP

• Vaccination records (childhood immunizations) 

• Paid TB testing through JH Occupational Health

• Background check and work permit 

June 22, 2026 

• First day of JHSJP

June 2026 (exact dates to be announced)

• FUNdamentals for EEI  and SEE  students – JHSJP participants will be paid to attend a week of introductory activities on the JHU Homewood campus
• Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on the JHU Homewood campus   
• Students taking  EEI  and SEE are encouraged to participate  

June 29, 2026

• First day of  EEI  and SEE

July 24, 2026 

• Last day of EEI  and SEE

July 27, through August 7, 2026

• Students will be placed in a job in an office in the Whiting School of Engineering

August 7, 2026

• Final day of JHSJP