Our Summer Fellowship will run from June 8 through August 14, 2026. Fellows work full-time and are paid between $20-$25/hour.
Applications are open now and will close on Monday, January 19 at 11:59 PM PT. Applicants must select one of the following tracks for their submission: cybersecurity, data, design, product management, or software engineering.
Join us at an upcoming info session to learn more about the Fellowship and the application process, hear directly from alumni, and get your questions answered. You can register by clicking one of the links below:
Our team will offer two virtual office hours during the application period. Drop by if you have any questions or need assistance with completing your application. No registration needed.
At the time of your application, you must meet the following requirements to be considered for the 2026 Summer Fellowship:
You must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or permanent resident.
You must be at least 18 years old at the start of the program on June 8, 2026.
You must be located in the United States for the entire program.
You must have one of the following educational backgrounds at the time of application:
You are enrolled in, or have recently graduated from, a bachelor’s, master’s, professional, or doctoral degree program at an accredited educational institution in the United States or an overseas equivalent.
Undergraduate level applicants: Your (expected) graduation date should be between May 1, 2025, and December 31, 2027 (i.e, current juniors, seniors, and recent graduates at the time of application).
Graduate level applicants: Your (expected) graduation date is no earlier than May 1, 2025.
You are enrolled in, or have recently completed, a bootcamp/certificate program with a minimum program length of three months (12 weeks) and live instruction. Your completion date should be between May 1, 2025, and January 31, 2026.
Still unsure if you are eligible for the 2026 Summer Fellowship? Use our quick eligibility screener tool.
January 5-19
Our application is easy to complete! It will ask you for a few details about yourself, to upload a formatted resume using either our template or builder tool (more info below), and to complete short-answer questions.
After our team reviews all applications, qualified candidates will be invited to complete a video interview with our team. This will help us evaluate your technical skills and how your background and experiences align. There are no coding assessments as part of this process.
After reviewing all assessments, qualified candidates will be considered for interviews with our government partners. Our team will refer candidates to our government partners for an interview based on the candidate’s fit for the available roles. Not every candidate is guaranteed an interview.
After interviewing candidates, government offices select their finalist(s) to whom we will extend an offer. Candidates may be asked to submit their transcripts to verify their educational background before acceptance. If you receive an offer and accept, we will be excited to have you join us as a 2026 Summer Coding it Forward Fellow!
To standardize the submission and evaluation of applicants in our process, all applicants MUST use our standardized resume template.
Use one of the following options to get started:
Click on the links below for three example resumes:
Our team also prepared a video walk-through of our template and the Resume Builder tool. Watch it at this link.