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by Eridrus 4092 days ago
I would ask you why you're looking for an internship.

If it's for the cash, as people have mentioned, you're going to have a tough time due to legal issues.

If you're just interested in getting more experience, I would try to find a mentor who could recommend potentially interesting projects to work on. There are a bunch of interesting computing technologies that are becoming more and more accessible to use (e.g. image recognition, NLP, machine learning, augmented/virtual reality, etc), and I think there are a lot more exciting things to do than work on yet another webapp.

Personally I spent ages 14+ learning how to hack websites and web browsers, and I found that to be a lot of fun, but there are piles of other things to get excited about. If you want some cash, companies will pay bug bounties to people as young as 13 for finding security vulnerabilities in their websites (see: HackerOne etc).

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It’s not for the cash — I’m not even concerned that I’ll get paid at all. I more want it because endlessly building things on your own isn’t as challenging or as much fun as being with a team for a little while. I’d also like to meet some more new people along the way.

On security: I’ve emailed several companies about security bugs on their websites, but I hadn’t considered being paid for it. I’ll check that out!

Thanks.

Email me (teenageSec@mailinator.com) sometime if you want to chat about web security stuff. I'm 17 years old and I tend to spend my free time working on bug bounties etc. I can certainly give you some pointers on this sort of thing.
If you're interested in working on larger projects, you should look into contributing to open source projects.