The
NOAA Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving Institutions Undergraduate
Scholarship Program is accepting applications. Program encourages
advisers, mentors, and potential applicants to take advantage of the NOAA
resources made available in this message. Competitive applications: (i) address the NOAA mission; (ii)
have resume and personal statements that are crafted to be relevant to the NOAA
mission, and (iii) have recommendations that are well developed and
made relevant to the NOAA mission.
What: Provides scholarships for two years of
undergraduate study.
Who: Rising junior undergraduate students
majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields that
directly support NOAA's mission.
The Program:
- Students
receive total awards valued at up to $35,000 in total support during their
junior and senior years.
- Students
complete a nine week paid summer internship at NOAA in Silver Spring, MD,
between May and July of the first summer. During the second summer,
students complete paid internships at NOAA facilities across the country.
During the summer internships, students are paid a stipend and receive a
housing allowance.
- Student
scholarship recipients attend a two-week orientation at NOAA in Silver
Spring, MD, and begin their first summer internship in early June.
- At
the end of both summer internships, students present the results of their
projects at an education and science symposium in Silver Spring, MD
(travel expenses paid).
Undergraduate
Scholarship Application Link: https://oedwebapps.iso.noaa.gov/uspa/