How is this program? It looks pretty fun and one of the centers is only 20 or so minutes away from me and it would be a great summer opportunity if I got in + money lol. I am currently a junior right now so I would be doing this the summer before senior year.
On the site they really haven’t put much info so does anyone who knows more about this/has done it before know some more about it? I don’t really want to put all the time into my application and apply if it turns out I wont like it or proves undoable.
Mainly how many hours a day is the program and whats a typical schedule? 8 weeks is a long time and if the 3300$ stipend correlates to a 40 hour week that’s a ton of time.
How is the atmosphere and difficulty? Is it fun with lots of friends being made or is it pure focused and joblike with rigorous work?
Ya, I second question. I also wanted to ask about admissions. I am a pretty good student with a good gpa and I think I will make above a 1400 on the SAT. However, I have very few ec’s. How do they judge applicants? Also, I thought the stipend was only for a few people.
This is all probably really late, but along with having all of the numbers and ec’s, make sure you get a really good recommendation, as it helped me a ton to get my spot in 2017. This is probably really late but it proved to be a valuable experience for me in the summer of my sophomore year and I’m surely going to put it in my application. Looking back, while the internship proved to be taxing (boredom is plentiful if your boss doesn’t give you much to do as there will not always be something for you to do at any given time), it proved to be valuable to my growth as a communicator in the field of STEM. Yes, you do write a research panel for presentation and yes, the stipend is worthwhile. The atmosphere is businesslike yet casual. You make friends with your fellow SEAPs and NREIPs there, as when you don’t have a task to do (in the electrical engineering department at least), you have time to hang, relax, play guitar for your co-workers and entertain your supervisors (me), and do what an intern does best (make food, take model numbers, take out the trash, you know the drill). NEVERTHELESS, you DO have to complete some sort of research as this internship is no cakewalk. It is pretty cool as you get to travel around on Navy bases (Point Loma for me) and you do get paid good money. You get to work with 20 year old computers (at least from my experience) and you get to learn a whole lot more about the business world and life in general than just STEM related things. It was definitely worth it for one year, though this summer, I did not re apply as I have other commitments. I would definitely do it again though if I had nothing else to do.