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It's a bit disheartening, but I agree, I'm too young. Who in their right mind would want to hire a 15-year-old high schooler versus a 20-year old college student?
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Bingo. Without exceptional established skills for a 15-year-old, and I mean *exceptional*, it's unlikely that anyone is going to offer you anything worthwhile.
Look at it from an employer's point of view: you may be only an intern but you'll be taking up desk/lab/whatever space and someone on the regular paid staff will have to supervise you. In exchange for that, the company/organization has to see some potential reward that makes sense.
There are also biases, not without justification: there are enough 18-20-year-old college students that have holes in their work ethic, to put it politely, that gambling on the maturity of a 15-year-old begs the question, do you [as an employer] *really* want to do this?
With that as context, then look at it from your point of view: an internship consisting of getting coffee & donuts and making photocopies isn't much of a learning experience except for what you pick by osmosis from the work environment. Getting something of substance? Go back and look from the employer's point of view.
You'd be better off spending your summer taking a community college course or, better yet, setting up your own independent study course for something your interested in, getting a teacher or CC professor to mentor and guide you and maybe assign a culminating project like a presentation or major research paper by the end of the summer.