<p>Program Overview
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sponsors a 10-week summer internship program for students majoring in homeland security related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (HS-STEM) disciplines. This program is open to undergraduate students in a broad spectrum of DHS mission-relevant research areas and graduate students interested in the specific field of Nuclear and Radiological Threat Detection.</p>
<p>The DHS HS-STEM Summer Internship Program provides students with the opportunity to conduct research at federal research facilities located across the country. The goal of this program is to engage a diverse, educated, and skilled pool of scientists and engineers in HS-STEM issues and to promote long-term relationships between student researchers, DHS, and federal research facilities to enhance the HS-STEM workforce.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting this. I am bookmarking all of these opportunities for my son to revisit for summer 2014 (I don’t think he is quite ready academically for summer 2013).</p>
<p>On the topic of internships, I know someone who did a summer internship for the National Bureau of Standards and Technology (NIST-SURF). He got a lot out of it-- he ended up publishing afterwards.</p>
<p>“You and your school are invited to participate in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Gaithersburg, MD Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program for students majoring in science, mathematics and engineering.”</p>
<p>“Students can participate in any one of the six NIST laboratories:”
•Material Measurement Laboratory
•Physical Measurement Laboratory
•Engineering Laboratory
•Information Technology Laboratory
•Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
•NIST Center for Neutron Research</p>