Other Opportunities
Summer Contest for Native Youth
Deadline: Aug. 20
We know culture plays an important
role in maintaining and improving our
community’s health. Encourage youth you
know to get involved in cultural activities
and share their experience by entering this
month’s We R Native contest.
This month’s contest asks American
Indian and Alaska Native youth age 15-24,
“How do you #REPRESENT? What are
some ways you’re showing your Native
Pride this summer?”
Youth can enter online or by shar-
ing their story on social media using
#REPRESENT. Stories will be featured
on weRnative.org and youth will be
entered to win up to $150 (1 st place), $100
(2 nd place) or $75 (3 rd place).
Tribal Climate Change
Photo Contest
Deadline: Aug. 26
Our photo contest asks you to take
a picture of things you (or your Tribe
or village) value and add a short cap-
tion describing how a changing climate
might affect what’s in the photograph. For
example, if you take a picture of people
working, how might climate change affect
their jobs?
Visit globalchange.gov/explore or
http://climate.gov/ for effects on your
region of the country. Then write a caption.
Include your full name, grade and
school after caption (either with the photo
or in the email) and if you agree to the
“terms and conditions.” Submit the photo
at bia_climate_photo_contest@bia.gov
(questions too).
Categories include grades K-5, grades
6-8 and high school.
Next Generation Climate Justice
Action Camp
The Civil Liberties Defense Center
will host the third annual action camp for
Scholarships
youth age 14-18 to gain knowledge and
skills to organize for climate justice. The
camp will include a youth-led public event
focused on a climate justice campaign.
The camp runs from 2 p.m. on July 12
to 10 a.m. on July 19.The camp is located
at Apserkaha Park at Howard Prairie Lake,
40 minutes east of Ashland.
The registration fee is $150, but no
one will be turned away if they can’t afford
the fee. We have full and partial scholar-
ships and try to provide transportation to
those who needs it.
The Student Conservation
Association
Are you a high school student who
is passionate about conservation? Do
you like working as part of a team to get
things done? Join an SCA Community
or National Crew and plug yourself into
SCA’s nationwide network of young con-
servationists – thousands of students who
are as passionate as you are about preserv-
ing wildlands, protecting nature in urban
areas and keeping the planet green.
SCA offers a range of programs for
youth ages 15-19. Whether you want to
serve in your local community or explore
public lands across the country, SCA has
something for you.
The SMART Competition
This program engages students in a
real-world technology education chal-
lenge designed to combine academic
relevance, education achievement and
applications of technology. The com-
petition helps develop workforce and
life skills, including computer analysis
and software design, verbal and written
communication, research, teamwork and
problem solving.
Students will achieve an increased
awareness of the smart grid, green build-
ing design, the environment, community,
livability and sustainability-related issues.
American Indian Services
Scholarships
Deadline: Aug. 15
American Indian Services, a 501(c)
(3) non-profit headquartered in Utah,
provides thousands of educational schol-
arships to American Indians from any fed-
erally recognized Tribe who attend more
than 400 accredited colleges, universities
and trade schools.
These help students afford a college
education. Students pay for half or more
of their college tuition and the scholarship
makes up the difference.
Catching the Dream
Deadline: Sept. 15
CTD’s objective is to recognize and
reward outstanding student achievement.
All awards are based on merit, academic
achievement and ambition. Students must
attend a college or university on a full-
time basis, seeking a bachelor’s degree
or higher.
Catching the Dream scholarships are
awarded for life. If you win, you will never
have to apply again. If you are not selected
for scholarship with CTD, however, you
cannot apply again.
Xerox Minority Scholarship
Deadline: Sept. 30
Xerox is committed to the academic
success of all minority students. That’s
why we offer a Technical Minority Schol-
arship that awards between $1,000 and
$10,000 to qualified minorities enrolled in
a technical degree program at the bachelor
level or above.
Carol Jorgensen Scholarship for
Environmental Stewardship
Deadline: September
This scholarship provides funds to a
full time student pursuing an undergradu-
ate degree in an environmental steward-
ship discipline, including environmental
studies, natural resource management, the
natural sciences, public administration,
public policy, and related disciplines.
Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate
Scholarship Program
Deadline: September 2016 to
January 2017
This program provides successful
undergraduate applicants with awards
that include academic assistance (up to a
maximum of $9,500 per year) for full-time
study during the nine-month academic year;
a 10-week, full-time internship position
($700/week) during the summer at a NOAA
facility; and academic assistance (up to a
maximum of $9,500) for full-time study
during a second nine-month academic year.
The internship between the first and
second years of the award provides the
scholars with hands-on practical educa-
tional training experience in NOAA-related
science, research, technology, policy, man-
agement, and education activities.
Educational Partnership Program
Undergraduate Scholarship
Program
Deadline: September 2016 to
January 2017
This program provides scholarships
for two years of undergraduate study
to rising junior undergraduate students
majoring in science, technology, engineer-
ing and mathematics (STEM) fields that
directly support NOAA’s mission. Partici-
pants conduct research at a NOAA facility
during two paid summer internships.
Students attending Minority Serving
Institutions as defined by the U.S. Depart-
ment of Education (Hispanic serving
institutions, historically Black colleges and
universities, Tribal colleges and universi-
ties, Alaskan Native-serving institutions
and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions)
are eligible to apply for the program.
Internships
Carnegie Science Center
Internships
Deadline: Aug. 12
Each intern will be provided with the
opportunity to be creative, apply class-
room studies in a practical application,
and develop personally and professionally.
In return, Carnegie Science Center will
receive valuable assistance that contributes
significantly to the science center’s goals.
Internships are available in several dif-
ferent departments within the science center.
OMSI Internships
Deadline: Multiple
Our internships are built with you and
your professional goals in mind.
Our program is competitive, but we’re
eager to hear from you. Our unpaid intern-
ships are typically 12-week commitments.
Hoping to get credit? Contact your
advisor or department chair to inquire
about your school’s policy and procedures
for awarding credit for internships.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Deadline: Multiple
The new Internship Program provides
students in high school, college, trade
school and other qualifying educational
institutions with paid opportunities to
work in agencies and explore federal
careers while completing their education.
The Recent Graduates Program pro-
vides developmental experiences in the
federal government. It is intended to pro-
mote possible careers in the civil service
to individuals who, within the previous two
years, graduated from qualifying educa-
tional institutions with an associate, bach-
elor’s, master’s, professional, doctorate,
vocational or technical degree or certificate
from qualifying educational institutions.
National Science Foundation
Deadline: Multiple
NSF funds a large number of research
opportunities for undergraduate students
through its REU Sites program. An
REU Site consists of a group of 10 or so
undergraduates who work in the research
programs of the host institution. Each stu-
dent is associated with a specific research
project, where he/she works closely with
the faculty and other researchers.
Students must contact the individual
sites for information and application
materials. NSF does not have application
materials and does not select student
participants. A contact person and contact
information is listed for each site.
EPA Environmental Research and
Business Support Program
Deadline: Multiple
This program provides opportunities
for exceptional undergraduate and gradu-
ate students and recent bachelor’s, mas-
ter’s and postdoctoral STEM graduates
to work in the U.S. Environmental Protec-
tion Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research
and Development (ORD) research and
administrative projects at multiple EPA
laboratories and research centers.
ORAU manages the EPA Environmen-
tal Research and Business Support Program
under the Student Services Contracting
Authority. Selected applicants will become
temporary employees of ORAU for the
duration of the assignment, up to five years.
EPA Internships
Deadlines: Multiple
EPA internships and fellowships
provide a great introduction to our work.
Internships, fellowships and other oppor-
tunities are available at our Washington
D.C. headquarters, in our 10 regional
offices, and at our labs and research centers
throughout the nation.
EPA hires high school and college
interns for administrative/clerical posi-
tions as well as technical positions in areas
such as life sciences, program or policy
analysis and engineering. Most positions
have salaries ranging from the GS-2 to
GS-7 level. All internships paid by EPA
appear in the government-wide USAJobs.
gov portal.
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