<p>Sozo: Walter Reed is through the SEAP-Army. SEAP was a program created like 20 years ago by the Department of Defense, but it got split in two recently. Basically, its an 8-week internship at a Navy or Army research facility where you do meaningful work(some more than others). </p>
<p>The two major facilities are NRL(Naval Research Lab) and the Army based Walter Reed. There are a bunch of smaller facilities like Naval Warfare, Army Research, Sea Systems and a list of like 15 more that only take a couple kids.</p>
<p>I think NIH's high school apprenticeship is the hardest to get into, with NRL being number two. NIH is biomedical oriented(genetics,biochem,medicine, etc.) where as NRL is more generic oriented. I think NRL is bigger(2000 researchers, full campus) but both have a lot of accomplishments. NIH brags about Genome Project, NRL brags about inventing radar.</p>
<p>Anyways theres lots of opportunities in the DC Metro area to do research and there are a lot of great labs.</p>
<p>Navy SEAP: <a href="http://armanagement.org/seap/default.htm%5B/url%5D">http://armanagement.org/seap/default.htm</a>
Army SEAP: <a href="http://gwseap.net/%5B/url%5D">http://gwseap.net/</a></p>