Program

Community College Internship Program (CCI)

Organization

U.S. Department of Energy

Opportunity Type

Internship

About the Program

The Community College Internship (CCI) program seeks to encourage community college students to enter technical careers relevant to the DOE mission by providing technical training experiences at the DOE laboratories. Selected students participate as interns appointed at one of 15 participating DOE laboratories. They work on technologies or instrumentation projects or major research facilities supporting DOE’s mission, under the guidance of laboratory staff scientists or engineers.

The CCI program is sponsored and managed by the DOE Office of Science’s Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) in collaboration with the DOE laboratories.

Applications for the CCI program are solicited annually for the Summer Term, and beginning in the 2016 Spring Term, for a pilot semester program. Internship appointments are 10 weeks in duration for the Summer Term (May through August), or 16 weeks in duration for the Spring Term (January through May). Each DOE laboratory offers different technical internship opportunities; not all DOE laboratories participate in the CCI program; and not all DOE laboratories/facilities offer internships during the Fall and Spring Terms.

Application Deadline

January 08, 2024

Application Website

science.energy.gov/wdts/cci/

Paid?

Pay Rate

Additional Benefits

• CCI participants spend 10 weeks at a DOE National Laboratory engaged in a technical project under the guidance of a laboratory scientist or engineer.
• Host laboratories provide enrichment activities, including career professional development workshops (e.g. technical and scientific writing skills development, poster, or oral presentation activities, etc.), laboratory tours, scientific or technical lectures and seminars.
• Host laboratories provide all required site specific training.
• Selected students receive a stipend of $500 per week during the internship period.
• Selected students are reimbursed for one round trip domestic travel to the host laboratory (if permanent address is more than 50 miles from the host laboratory). Transportation expenses will be reimbursed on the basis of the most direct route. Travel by a private automobile will be reimbursed at the current government rate up to a maximum of $500.00 or the cost of the lowest commercial airfare, whichever is lower. Travel by air will be reimbursed at the cost of the lowest commercial airfare. 
• Housing information will be provided to interns prior to arrival at the host laboratory. In general, housing opportunities will vary from laboratory to laboratory.  An allowance is available for participants placed at host laboratories that are unable to offer direct housing arrangements.

Description

• Must be currently enrolled as a full-time student at a community college or accredited two-year college and completed at least one semester at the time of applying. 
• Must have completed at least 6 credit hours in science, mathematics, engineering, or technology course areas, and completed at least 12 credits hours towards a degree.
• Must have an undergraduate cumulative minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for all completed courses as a matriculating student.
• Must be 18 years or older at the time the internship begins. 
• Must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Resident Alien at the time of applying. 

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Open to students attending school in:

Minimum GPA

Minimum Age

18

Year in School

• First Year Community College Student
• Second Year Community College Student

Citizenship

• U.S. Citizens
• Legal Permanent Residents

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Organization Address

1000 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20585

Organization Phone

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