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Accepting applications through February 1, 2010 |
Broaden your education... Diversify your interests…
Advance your career!
2010 Application | 2010 Positions | Program Details | Flyer (please post)
 SPS internships are nine-and-a-half-week, broad-based learning opportunities for undergraduate physics majors in the areas of scientific research, outreach and policy. The 2010 interships are from June 1 - August 4.
Interns are placed in organizations such as NIST, NASA, AIP, AAS, AAPT and APS, in the Washington, DC, area. See open positions for 2010.
These organizations utilize the energy and diversity of aspiring students and contribute to their professional development through meaningful assignments, both relevant to the institution’s programs and in the advancement of physics or all or more mentors to guide the interns’ work and overall experience. |
Program Information
• 2010 Application | 2010 Program Details | 2010 Positions | 2010 Flyer (please post)
• Meet the 2009 Interns | Previous Interns
• Administration, reporting expectations, and benefits
• Intern Update Form: Previous SPS Interns—let us know what you're up to now!
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Selection Criteria
- Scholastic record and potential for future success
- Evidence of participation in SPS events and activities
- Evidence of experience in either science outreach/policy (for the SPS internships) or in science research (for the research internships)
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Organizations who partner with SPS to mentor a summer intern make a financial contribution to off-set program expenses.
SPS also derives support for this program from the American Institute of Physics (AIP).
The awards and scholarship programs of SPS are made possible, in part, through generous contributions of Sigma Pi Sigma members and friends. Scholarships and awards are supported by income derived from designated funds that have been provided as gifts. In this way, the physics alumni, and especially the Sigma Pi Sigma members, contribute to the generations of students who follow them.
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NEW: Mather Policy Internships
Nobel Laureate Supports Congressional Internships for Physics Undergraduates
 COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND, 11 November 2009 — John C. Mather, who shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his precise measurements of the primordial heat radiation of the Big Bang, is now turning his sights to a more Earthly ambition. He will spend part of his prize money to bring more physics and physicists into government.
Today, the John and Jane Mather Foundation for Science and the Arts and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced the creation of the Mather Policy Intern Program, an endowed program that will send two undergraduate physics majors to Washington each summer where they will spend their break working in Congress or in other government offices where policy is formulated. "The aim of the program is to promote awareness of policy process among young scientists by directly engaging them in the work that goes on in the federal government -- work that is today as exciting as in any time in the past," explained Fred Dylla, Executive Director of the American Institute of Physics.
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