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| 21 Jan 2026 | |
| High School |
Students interested in science can spend their summers in our labs at the Boulder, CO, or the Gaithersburg, MD, campuses through NIST’s Summer High School Intern Program (SHIP). Students learn from top scientists at NIST and work on your own research project.
SHIP is a seven-week, unpaid educational internship.
ELIGIBILITY AND REQUIREMENTS:
The applicant must
- be a U.S. citizen
- be a high school junior or senior
- have a minimum unweighted GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
- Students and their parent(s)/guardian(s) must provide their own housing and transportation
- have a permanent residence within a 50-mile radius of their host campus (NIST Boulder or NIST Gaithersburg)