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MITRE's Student Program The MITRE Student Program is a unique, nationally renowned summer educational experience for outstanding high school students and college undergraduates. It offers students technical positions working on problems involving the application of advanced science and engineering to cutting edge problems of national importance. Founded in 1989, each summer the program brings between twenty to forty exceptional young people to the MITRE Corporation's campus in Northern Virginia. There, they work for eight to twelve weeks in paid positions in fields ranging from economics, computer science, and systems engineering, to biology, chemistry, physics, and nanotechnology. One key element of the program is the one-on-one mentorship of very promising young people by members of MITRE's highly skilled adult staff. Another is providing each student a technical problem of his or her own that has the potential to have important real-world impact and to be of benefit to the nation. Over the twenty years of the Student Program's operation, it also has had the impact of motivating several hundred students to continue their studies in science and engineering and to go on to become technical professionals. Many of MITRE’s several thousand degreed technical staff have dedicated much time and energy to this one-on-one mentorship and training effort. Students get to work on and apply their nascent, but growing technical skills to these high profile problems, often seeing the results of their own technical projects featured in the national news. Students also have benefited by getting to publish the results of their work in major scientific journals and even obtain patents on their inventions. As a result of their efforts, a number of the participants in the MITRE Student Program also have gone on to win honors and awards based upon research efforts that they conducted or began at MITRE. These honors have included prizes in local and national science contests, as well as undergraduate scholarships and prestigious graduate fellowships. Frequently, students are so energized by their summer experience at MITRE that they are motivated to return in a number of successive summers. Some also, eventually, go on to make their adult careers at MITRE. However, MITRE's true goal in sponsoring the Student Program is to see its "graduates" go out into the wider world and benefit the entire nation. This goal is being achieved, since a large number of students who have participated in the MITRE Student Program over the years are now part of the faculty and staff of major universities and corporations across the nation. Several are well on their way to becoming national leaders in their technical specialties, and a few also have gone on to start successful businesses. One part of the larger student program is the student program conducted in MITRE's Nanosystems Group. If you would like more information about MITRE's student program, please use the Contact Us form to inquire further. Page last updated: 02 September 2008 | Top of page |
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