Astrobiology (general)

Accepting Applications for the NASA Ames Academy

By Keith Cowing
December 17, 2012

Application Deadline: January 7, 2013

Are you looking to do something special with your summer? The NASA Ames Academy is a unique summer institute of higher learning whose goal is to help guide future leaders of the U.S. Space Program by giving them a glimpse of how the whole system works. It’s an immersive and integrated multidisciplinary exposure and training, for students with various backgrounds and career aspirations of critical importance to the national aerospace program.

Apply online at: https//academyapp.com

The academic curriculum balances opportunities for direct contact with advanced science and engineering R&D and an awareness of the complex managerial, political, financial, social, and human issues faced by the current and future aerospace programs.

Co-sponsorship of the Academy assures recruitment of meritorious students from previously under-represented areas of the country, into leadership positions for the aerospace programs of the future.

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