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The New York Technology Meetup is a networking organization of 15,000 entrepreneurial techies with a lot of new ideas. But their latest venture is an internship program with a big goal.

"To create a pipeline between New York City students that are interested in technology and the New York City technology industry, which is absolutely exploding and has a really significant demand for a funnel of young talent," said Adam Schwartz of New York Technology Meetup.

The culture at startup companies may be a good fit for a first job.

"They're very casual but everyone works really, really hard and you're all working to a very specific goal. So I think it's great for a high school student to be in a startup culture and see that working doesn't have to be this boring experience in a cubicle but when you're working on a project that you care deeply about and you feel like you're helping build something, rather than just being a cog in a wheel," Schwartz said.

"It's pretty laid back, but at the same time you're expected to do your work, which I really like cause somebody's not on top of you 24/7 like at school or at home," said student Pedro Jerez.

Instead of recruiting interns from the city's elite science schools, the students were chosen from participants in after-school tech programs in low-income neighborhoods.

"When I was in high school, I didn't have anything like that. And I'd love to be able to help get those kids ready for the workforce," said Wayne Folkes of Meetup.com

"It's a new experience. I've never had a white collar job before, you know, going to Manhattan everyday," said student Anthony Kellman.

"They're all getting different skills: coding, sales and marketing, business development. All the different things that happen at a startup," Schwartz said.

And while students are getting paid to build their resumes and learn the industry, the startups say they need more up and coming talent.

"We can't meet the demand for all the companies and all the engineers that we need and all the coders that we need and people that understand this industry. So for young people to gain some skills in the Internet and in technology at a young age, they are really setting themselves up for a career in the startup scene," Schwartz said.