STEM Career and College Information
Selected WWW Sites for STEM Career Information
Science's NextWave- This site, from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, is an electronic network for the next generation of scientists. This site contains a series of forums on science careers, alternative careers, career trends in science, and career planning and mentoring for beginning scientists and engineers.
- Network
of Emerging Scientists
- This page links to other WWW sites of job openings in chemistry, astronomy,medicine, biology, mathematics, and physics.
- Engineering: Your Future
- This page describes the benefits of studying engineering, overview of engineering disciplines, choosing and affording college, famous engineers, and links to fun engineering sites.
- School-to-Work Career Resources
- This site provides links to connect coursework to jobs, career exploration, job search, and employment projections.
- MathCareer and Job Information
- This site, maintained by a woman mathematician at Eastern Oregon StateCollege, provides links to other WWW sites of job openings in math, companiesthat hire primarily math majors, and resume writing.
- MathematicalSciences Career Information
- This site provides information about non-academic careers in math, suchas in government, industry, business, and finance. Also links to careerprofiles, mentoring program, and career planning resources.
- The BioCareer Center
- This page provides numerous links to job databases, on-line job placementservices, and recruitment pages.
- MedZilla
- This site allows for a search of job openings in the fields of biotechnology,medicine, and science. It also includes lists of books, articles, and salaryinformation.
- JobSearch for Engineers
- This site provides links to job databases, salary information, career outlook,and companies employing engineers.
- The Computer Museum's Careers in Computing
- This site provides links to current jobs in computing, career research,and links for women and girls.
- Careersin Computing
- This site provides descriptions and outlooks for careers that involve computers.
Selected WWW Sites for College
and Student Financial Aid Information
- College PlanningNetwork
- This site provides students, families, and educational professionals withinformation on college selection, admission, financial aid, and scholarships.Within this site are links to other sites of potential interest.
- YahooSearch of Education: Colleges and Universities
- This search engine provides links to individual colleges and universitiesworldwide.
- YahooSearch of Education: Distance Learning: Colleges and Universities
- NeedHelp Preparing for College?
- FinAid:The Financial Aid Information Page
- This page, sponsored by the National Association of Student Financial AidAdministrators (NASFAA), states it "provides a free, comprehensive, independent,and objective guide to student financial aid."
- U.S.Department of Education, Office of Post Secondary Education
- This site provides an overview of federal student aid and links to theFAFSA electronic application form.
- StudentGuide to Financial Aid: Financial Aid from the U.S. Department of Education
- Provides information on eligibility for grants, loans, campus-based programs,and links to the FAFSA electronic application form.
- Project EASI, EasyAccess for Students and Institutions
- This link provides resources for education beyond high school. ProjectEASI is a collaborative effort among a diverse group of government, business,and education leaders to reengineer the country's post secondary studentfinancial aid delivery system.
- CollegeChoice
- A nonprofit information service for college bound students.
- CollegePrep Page from the Student Center
- Collection of resources for planning education. Provides information onfinancial aid, admissions, and career planning.
- FreeTest Preparation for SAT
- Provides free analysis of sample SAT test and information on obtainingadditional guides for the SAT and other standardized tests.
- NIH UndergraduateScholarship Program
- The NIH offers competitive scholarships to students from disadvantagedbackgrounds who are committed to careers in biomedical research.
- GoddardSpace Flight Center's Student Programs
- GSFC offers summer employment experiences for high school students.
- IntelScholarships and Fellowships
- The Intel Foundation sponsors 2 undergraduate scholarship programs: theMinority Engineering Scholarship Program and the Women in Science and EngineeringScholarships. Intel also provides scholarship recipients with summer internshipsand mentors and also offers graduate fellowship programs.
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