The Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers students many employment and research opportunities. The goal of each program is to provide students with a learning, nurturing environment within a real business structure. Those accepted into research or employment positions will have the chance to work with JPL employees who are often experts in their field of study. For more information about JPL's Student programs, click here.
JPL also offers several ways for postdoctoral and graduate students to participate in research projects at JPL.
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In addition, the Human Resources Directorate provides employment and research opportunities, which bring participants from a variety disciplines together as employees to conduct work for pay part-time or full-time for defined periods. For more information about the Academic Part-Time Program, the Cooperative Education Program, and the Summer Program, click here.
NASA recognizes the importance of educators' contributions in making our work possible, and we are dedicated to supporting them in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (also referred to as STEM). NASA provides formal and informal educators unique resources and development opportunities to strengthen the overall teaching of STEM subjects. Using the excitement that NASA's missions inspire, we are working with educators to capture the imagination of students, encouraging them to become the scientists and engineers that we'll need in the future and to strengthen the nation's future workforce.
Examples of stimulating education programs that JPL has fostered include the invention challenge, a friendly, yet challenging competition open to JPL employees and contractors, their family members, and students from local middle and high schools.
Other programs include capturing, for the benefit of pre-college education, the flavor of the vast experience that working scientists have with interesting and practical uses of math and science. And, in the hopes of inspiring girls aged 9-14 toward careers in science and technology, an awe-inspiring ion engine simulation game was developed to educate and inspire our nation's youth about different rocket propulsion methods that will enable NASA to explore farther and deeper than ever before in the coming decades.
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