OSGC hosted their second annual Student Symposium on November 14th at the Powell Learning Center / Memorial Union on the OSU Campus. The 2008 NASA Student Interns presented their research and information about the 2009 internship programs was available.

Click here to read the proceedings from the symposium.

DoD Space Agencies and Student Opportunities

• National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
• National Security Agency (NSA)
• National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
• CIA Student Opportunities
• Air Force Agencies with opportunities for current and future Dept. of the Air Force personnel
  • US Air Force Space Command
  • US Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center
  • United States Strategic Command
  • For more information on US Air Force Space Opportunitites, read the Air University Space Primer

Other (unfunded) opportunities available:

• The NASA Contracting Intern Program
  The program prepares students for their careers in the Federal Government.

• NASA Cooperative Education Program
  NASA Cooperative Education Programs are designed to combine academic studies with on-the-job training and experience and to give students an opportunity to work at a NASA Field Center while completing their education.

• The NASA History Office
  Internships are paid during the summer, when interns work approximately 40 hours per week, and unpaid the rest of the year, when interns work approximately 20 hours per week.

• NASA Scholars
  The program consists of individualized need-based scholarship or fellowship programs at 14 minority-serving institutions.

• NASA Student Job Opportunities
  Are designed to combine academic studies with on-the-job training and experience and to give students an opportunity to work with NASA while completing their education.

• New Opportunities Through Minority Initiatives in Space Science
  The program is designed to encourage minority students (particularly those of Hawaiian ancestry) to engage in learning about culture and its relevance to the study of space science.

• The Visiting Researcher Exchange and Outreach Partnership
  VREO is a partnership between the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Academic Affairs Office and Universities Space Research Association. The project is designed to stimulate involvement of university, private sector and government agency researchers with NASA.