Code.Tulsa applications close on Friday, February 27, 2026. Apply here!
Code.Tulsa: Igniting Tech Futures enables MIT students to both learn from and support tech-based community development strategies at work in the Tulsa region.
Students live at the University of Tulsa (TU) over the summer, interning with Native Nations and local nonprofits to support a variety of data science, AI, and coding projects, as well as a STEM boot camp for high school students who are members of federally recognized tribes. This program is open to MIT undergraduates who are not graduating in May 2026.
Students will serve as full-time, summer interns for local organizations like Black Tech Street and the Urban Coders Guild, and for the Cherokee Nation and Muscogee Creek Nation. Past projects have ranged from the development of a patient data system for the Muscogee’s new health center, to building a Virtual Agent for the Cherokee Nation’s online social service portal, to developing a white paper on sociotechnical frameworks for whole community AI adoption. Program participants will also support a one-week summer STEM bootcamp for Native youth at Tulsa University developed by MIT undergraduates.