“Out-of-This-World” NASA Summer Internship for Mid-West U.S. Students

GREENBELT, Md., July 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — It is not unusual for
college students to take lessons learned in the classroom and see how they can
be applied out in the real world. But for some exceptional students, their
efforts this summer are literally “out-of-this-world” as they live a 10-week
hands-on research or engineering experience interning at NASA’s Goddard Space
Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C.

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More than four-dozen U.S. mid-west students are about halfway through their
participation in Goddard’s 2011 Summer College and University Internship
Program. Young men and women from cities such as Chicago, IL, Lafayette and
Muncie, IN, South Point and Wooster, Ohio, Bay City, Mich. and Milwaukee, Wis.
have joined approximately 500 other students from 48 of the 50 U.S. states as
well as Puerto Rico in the program.

Each intern was placed with a mentor and provided with a scientific or
engineering research opportunity matching the student’s educational interests
and background as provided in the application. The assigned work may include
equipment design and testing, experimental data collection and processing,
computer software development and use or fieldwork. Many projects are on the
cutting-edge of science and technology and are important to future NASA research
efforts.

The students are using social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
and Flickr to collaborate with each other as well as share their experience with
family and friends back home. To see and hear directly from the students about
their summer adventure, go to:

- Twitter: http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC
- YouTube: http://youtube.com/NASAexplorer
- Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/

For members of the news media who would like to interview a student(s), please
contact either Maria Acevedo-Rivera at maria.e.acevedo-rivera@nasa.gov or Edward
Campion at edward.s.campion@nasa.gov to make arrangements.

SOURCE NASA