{"id":6778,"date":"2015-12-28T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2015-12-28T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T21:06:10","slug":"nasa-academy-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?p=6778","title":{"rendered":"NASA Academy 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 NASA Academy is being offered at three locations: NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California, NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center in Ohio, and NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Applications are being solicited for this 10-week summer experience for college students with emphasis on immersive and integrated multidisciplinary exposure and training. Activities include laboratory research, a group project, lectures, meetings with experts and administrators, visits to NASA centers and space-related industries, and technical presentations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Students learn how NASA and its centers operate, gain experience in world-class laboratories, and participate in leadership development and team-building activities.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants must be U.S. citizens (including citizens of the U.S. territories Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands and Northern Marianas) majoring in a STEM discipline. The applicants must be undergraduate or graduate students enrolled full-time in accredited universities and colleges in the U.S. and its territories. Students may apply to any of the NASA Academy opportunities by following these steps:<\/p>\n<p>1. Log into the NASA One Stop Shopping Initiative, or OSSI, site at <a href=\"https:\/\/intern.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/intern.nasa.gov<\/a>.<br \/>\n2. Register and set up an account.<br \/>\n3. Select the \u201cSearch Opportunities\u201d tab at the top bar.<br \/>\n4. Select \u201cNASA Center(s) of Interest\u201d under \u201cNASA Center\/Facility.\u201d<br \/>\n5. Enter \u201cAcademy\u201d in the \u201cKeywords\u201d block at the bottom of the screen.<br \/>\n6. Click the \u201cSearch\u201d button at the very bottom of screen; a list of Academy Opportunities will then be displayed.<br \/>\n7. Click on the \u201cView\u201d icon in the first column under \u201cAction\u201d to read about the Opportunity of interest, followed by comments on additional instructions for completing the application, including two requested essays.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for receipt of NASA Academy application(s) and associated documents is <strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1532484888\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Feb. 16, 2016<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Please direct questions about NASA Academy to <a href=\"mailto:NASA-Academy-Application@mail.nasa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA-Academy-Application@mail.<wbr \/>nasa.gov<\/a>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 NASA Academy is being offered at three locations: NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California, NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center in Ohio, and NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Applications are being solicited for this 10-week summer experience for college students with emphasis on immersive and integrated multidisciplinary exposure and training. Activities include laboratory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}