STEM Career and College Information Selected Resources

• Job Search for Engineers
  This site provides links to job databases, salary information, career outlook, and companies employing engineers.


• Mathematical Sciences Career Information
  This site provides information about non-academic careers in math, such as in government, industry, business, and finance. Also links to career profiles, mentoring program, and career planning resources.


• MedZilla
  This site allows for a search of job openings in the fields of biotechnology, medicine, and science. It also includes lists of books, articles, and salary information.


• Network of Emerging Scientists
  This page links to other Internet sites of job openings in chemistry, astronomy, medicine, biology, mathematics, and physics.


• School-to-Work Career Resources
  This site provides links to connect coursework to jobs, career exploration, job search, and employment projections.


• Science's Next Wave
  This site, from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, is an electronic network for the next generation of scientists. This site contains a series of forums on science careers, alternative careers, career trends in science, and career planning and mentoring for beginning scientists and engineers.

Summer Programs

• National Institute of Health (NIH) summer programs


• Pre-engineering summer camps
  Engineering Education Service Center provides a directory. The camp directory lists some of the summer camps for high school students in science, mathematics, and engineering throughout the United States that are and were previously offered. The directory lists camps that have been hosted by Universities and research centers.


• The Science and Engineering Apprentice Program (SEAP) for high school students
  In 1980 the Department of Defense initiated a program at the direction of the President to involve academically qualified high school students in hands-on activities and student-mentor relationships during the summer. This program placed students with research and engineering mentors in university and DoD laboratories. Working in close cooperation, the Departments of the Army and Navy were especially responsive to the White House directive. Building on existing programs at the American University and the Naval Research Laboratory, the Army and Navy began a model program involving the majority of Army and Navy Laboratories in the Washington/Baltimore Area. This program provided selected students with an eight-week summer apprentice experience. The program steadily expanded in scope each subsequent year, first under a grant with the American University, then with the University of the District of Columbia, and now with The George Washington University.

Selected Sites for College Scholarship and Student Financial Aid Information

• College Planning Network
  This site provides students, families, and educational professionals with information on college selection, admission, financial aid, and scholarships. Within this site are links to other sites of potential interest.


• FinAid: The Financial Aid Information Page
  This page, sponsored by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), states it "provides a free, comprehensive, independent, and objective guide to student financial aid."


• Gates Millenium Scholars


• Goddard Space Flight Center's Student Programs
  GSFC offers summer employment experiences for high school students.


• Intel Scholarships and Fellowships
  The Intel Foundation sponsors 2 undergraduate scholarship programs: the Minority Engineering Scholarship Program and the Women in Science and Engineering Scholarships. Intel also provides scholarship recipients with summer internships and mentors and also offers graduate fellowship programs.


• MIT Guide to high school programs


• NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program
  The NIH offers competitive scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are committed to careers in biomedical research.


• SMART - The Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation
  The Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program has been established by the Department of Defense (DoD) to support the education and recruitment of undergraduate and graduate students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. This program is used to recruit and to retain civilian scientists and engineers to work at DoD agencies and laboratories.


• Student Guide to Financial Aid: Financial Aid from the U.S. Department of Education
  Provides information on eligibility for grants, loans, campus-based programs, and links to the FAFSA electronic application form.


• United Negro College Fund