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Aerospace Engineering

A guide to resources for high school and undergraduate students

NASA Opportunities

NASA Education home page: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/about/index.html
This is an excellent portal to access resources for students and teachers in all areas of NASA's research.

Lists of all of NASA's educational programs can be found on this page: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/index.html
This list organizes the opportunities alphabetically: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/descriptions/All_Alpha.html

NASA Education website "Opportunities" page, in the "For Students" section: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/current-opps-index.html
This page lists a large number of opportunities, divided by age/education level.

The NASA Education "Centers and Facilities" page, http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/centers/index.html
This page lists NASA facilities that provide education programs and gives links to their education pages. [NOTE: some facilities not listed also provide educational opportunities, but on a smaller scale.]

NASA's Undergraduate Student Research Program, http://usrp.usra.edu/about/
The program offers spring, summer, or fall internships for full-time undergrads at many different NASA research centers throughout the country.

One Stop Shopping Initiative (OSSI), http://intern.nasa.gov/accessable.html
NASA is implementing the OSSI for their numerous internship, fellowship, and scholarship opportunities. This will, hopefully, make it simpler to apply for NASA opportunities.
Part of this initiative is a universal online application for their student internships, etc. called the Student On-Line Application for Recruiting Interns, Fellows, and Scholars: http://solar.nasa.gov/web/public/main/

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory list of internships and fellowships, http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/internships/

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory intern videos: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=88
These videos demonstrate past interns' experiences at JPL.

NASA's Langley Research Center, Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars (LARSS) program, http://www.nianet.org/larss/
This program is for college juniors or seniors and graduate students. High school seniors and college freshman and sophomores can take advantage of a "bridge" program if they have a GPA of 3.5 or more and have been in a NASA program before. [NOTE: This program is not accessible through the NASA One Stop Shopping Initiative.]



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