For high-school students
Find opportunities worth your time.
Create an account to explore summer programs, competitions, research, internships, scholarships, and local volunteer opportunities — and see what applying actually involves before you open the form.
80 opportunities from 73 organizations. Posting an opportunity?
- Every listing reviewed before it goes live
- No public student profiles
What is inside
80 opportunities, from 73 organizations
Every listing is read from the organization's own website, checked by a person before students see it, and dated so you know how fresh it is.
- Summer program
- Competition
- Research program
- Internship
- Volunteer opportunity
- Scholarship
- Workshop
- Fellowship
- Student leadership
- Community project
Free for students, and always will be. No public student profiles.
For students
How Pathlumi works
Other sites show you what exists. This one shows you what is worth your time — and what applying will actually involve.
Tell us what you are into
Your grade, your interests, roughly where you live, how much time you have and what you can afford. Two minutes, and none of it is public.
See what actually fits
Every card says why it matched — your interests, your grade, your budget, your distance. If you are not eligible, we do not recommend it.
Know before you start
Open any listing and read exactly what the application asks for: the steps, the materials, the essays, the fee, and how long it takes.
The difference
You should know what an application involves before you start it
A programme that looks perfect can turn out to need two teacher recommendations, an official transcript and a 650-word essay — which you find out forty minutes in, at eleven at night, three days before it closes.
Every Pathlumi listing has an Application Preview: the numbered steps, the materials checklist, the essay questions where the organization has published them, the fee, and an honest estimate of how long it takes. We also show when we last checked, because requirements change.
Application Preview
What applying looks like
Time
~3 hours
Fee
None
Decision
6 weeks
- Create an account on the official programme site
- Complete the personal information section
- Upload an unofficial transcript
- Request one teacher recommendation
- Answer two short-response questions
- Submit before the deadline
Illustrative example. On a real listing this section is filled in by the organization and shows the date it was last checked.
For organizations
Reach students who are actually looking
Nonprofits, schools, universities, research labs, community groups and companies can post opportunities for free. Local volunteering sits next to national programmes — a Saturday shift at a community centre matters as much here as a university summer placement.
Free to post. No payment details are collected anywhere on Pathlumi.
Create your organization profile
Tell us who you are, where you are based and what you do. A person on our team reads it.
Write the listing, including the application
The wizard walks you through eligibility, dates, cost and — the part students care most about — exactly what applying involves.
We review, then it goes live
Every listing is checked before students see it. Once live, you get view, save and application-click counts.
Trust and safety
Built for a platform that serves minors
Safety here is a set of product decisions, not a policy page. These are the ones that shaped how Pathlumi works.
Every listing is reviewed
Nothing reaches students automatically. A person checks each organization and each listing before it is published.
Students are not browsable
There is no public student directory and no student profile page. Providers cannot see who saved their listing.
No messaging between adults and students
Pathlumi has no inbox. Applications happen on the organization’s own official site.
Anyone can report a listing
Every listing has a report button, signed in or not. Safety reports are acted on first.
Find opportunities worth your time
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