North Carolina Student Participates in Unique NASA Internship at Goddard Space Flight Center
Posted on: Wednesday, 27 June 2007, 15:01 CDT
GREENBELT, Md., June 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mindy Love-Stanley, a student from Fayetteville, NC, is spending this summer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. as a participant in the prestigious NASA Student Internship Program (SIP). Love-Stanley is an environmental science major at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
SIP, a research intensive program that allows students to explore various career opportunities within NASA, commissions students to spend their workday in a Goddard or Wallops Flight Facility laboratory or Headquarters office conducting research for various projects and missions. By the end of the summer, each student should complete close to 400 hours of research on a project related to NASA's goals and deliver a poster presentation where they will share the results of their research with NASA personnel and fellow interns.
"I am excited to learn more about the technology used to monitor CO2 in the atmosphere," says Love-Stanley of the opportunity. "I like the chance to work with like-minded scientists."
Each SIP student is assigned a NASA scientist or engineer as a mentor and assists the mentor with his or her current project. The SIP participants help their mentors conduct research and use data for the projects and in turn, the mentors guide the students and help them learn as much as possible from their experience at NASA Goddard.
For example, in the summer of 2005, several SIP students built miniature engines for unmanned underwater vehicles. The ten-week program runs now through Aug. 11.
"This is a wonderful experience for a student," said Dr. Vigdor Teplitz, chief of Higher Education for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. "NASA's space program is just about the greatest show on Earth if you are a technical person and having these young eager people with fresh points-of-view and questions is good for NASA. It makes a productive summer for all."
This year, SIP brings together 46 students from around the country including Puerto Rico who are pursuing degrees in science, engineering, mathematics, computer science or another field of interest to the aerospace industry.
With this program, NASA continues the agency's tradition of investing in the nation's education programs. It is directly tied to the agency's major educational goal of strengthening NASA's and the nation's future workforce. Through this and the agency's other college and university programs, NASA will identify and develop the critical skills and capabilities needed to achieve the Vision for Space Exploration.
News media should contact Dewayne Washington at 301-286-0040 of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Public Affairs Office for additional information.
For more info about SIP go to: http://university.gsfc.nasa.gov/programs/sip.jsp
NASA
CONTACT: Dewayne Washington of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,Greenbelt, Md., +1-301-286-0040
Web site: http://www.nasa.gov/http://university.gsfc.nasa.gov/programs/sip.jsp
Source: PRNewswire-USNewswire
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