I am having trouble searching for opportunities for Internships at the NASA OSSI Internship website. I have completed my Interest Profile, all required categories for my application, and multiple professor recommendations for this internship. According to the website, I have completed everything. However, when I try to search for an opportunity on their website, I am given the “no results were found” text. I have tried refreshing, re-submitting my application, but none of these have worked. I am applying for an internship for the Summer of 2017, and it says that all applications must be submitted before March 1st, and mentors will be able to see my application. However, they do not mention anything about offers or opportunities popping up. This needs to happen, because only then can I send my application to the desired opportunity, and actually apply for it. So far, my application is completed and just lying in a pool of applicants.
If anyone is also applying for the similar NASA OSSI internship, or has applied before, could you give me some insight on this problem? Thanks to all.
NASA posts specific jobs on the OSSI site sorted by degrees that can apply. Did you choose your major, push it over to the right column and then select it out of the right column?
@eyemgh What I did was select student assistance for applying to a OSSI oppurtunity. Filled out the entire application and submitted it. I recieved a notification that my application was recieved. And, as the site says, they instruct me to search for oppurtunities through the site intern.nasa.gov, and select searched oppurtunities. I have created a very broad interest profile so that I can apply to as my oppurtunities as possible. I have submitted a separate resume of my completed work as well.
I have not tried the method you speak of, but will now.
@IsoDidact Its good to find someone else applying, I can’t find anyone else except @eyemgh
I am looking at opportunities regarding Computer Science and Engineering and Mathematics as a main area of focus.
Regarding my original problem, I am not able to see any opportunities through the NASA OSSI website, therefore I can’t consider any!
Please let me know when you have submitted your application, as I would greatly appreciate your help!
I have a few questions for you as well, are you in college? And what fields are you looking into for this internship?
I have put down that I am available in all locations offered by NASA. I am more than willing to travel and live elsewhere for my internship. I do have some preferences though, such as NASA Headquarters, Goddard Flight Center, and the Kennedy Space Center. Those are more well-known as well.
How about you?
I’m afraid I’m of no help. My son is an engineering student. Looking for opportunities available to specific degree programs is easy. As a HS student however, I wouldn’t know. Don’t get your hopes up too high. You don’t have much to offer yet and it’s very competitive. Good luck!
@eyemgh still the way to search for oppurtunities are alike. I won’t be sad if I don’t get in, but I am sad that I cannot even send my application to any oppurtunity. Would it be possible for me to contact your soon via CC so I could understand how he searches and considers opportunities for his field? Once I can see the listed opportunities, this thread will be resolved.
Thank you so much for your time
Start here: https://intern.nasa.gov/ossi/web/public/guest/searchOpps/
Choose you level of education in the top box.
If you have a specific location, choose it.
Choose Summer 2017 (unless you want to drop out :D)
Don’t pick any academic disciplines, because you don’t have one yet.
Press Search and…Voila!
Good luck!
@TryYourBest1 Great to see the problem resolved for you. When the results roll out in a few months, be sure to update us on whether or not you got accepted! Good luck
@IsoDidact Same goes for you as well. You have as much a chance as I do!
Say, after resolving this, I spark up another question. After being able to see so many opportunities, I realize that each internship only requires one or two max students. That sounds very cut-throat, though I am not sure how many people apply. Do you, by chance, know what the difficulty in acquiring internship from NASA is (I know it wouldn’t be easy).
Another question, directed to you Isodidact, how long were your responses for your NASA applications. For example, the question they ask about any publications you did, how long (in word length) was your response. Mine was about 500-600 for this question, but for my other responses they were almost 750 words long.
@TryYourBest1 I don’t know how hard it is to get into an opportunity, and it probably varies anyway.
Though, I do know that NASA Goddard employs the most amount of interns every summer. I read somewhere (can’t find the link anymore) that the acceptance rate is about 1 out of 30 (about 3 percent!) for Goddard interns, which includes undergrads, grads, postdocs, associate degrees, and HS. So…very competitive!
the “how does a nasa opportunity fit in with your interests” response should be around 250 words (as they say on the website) The others are however long you want them to be, depending on how much you have to say. For skills, I just had a long list and brief parenthetical explanations of less-common stuff and acronyms.
For publications, I just put in the title of the publication, date, other authors, and a brief description of what it was about and what my role was in the publication. If there was an abstract I pasted the abstract in. I had 3 actual publications (not phony self-publishing haha), so I just put 3. That was about 600 words in total.
haha sorry