Community College Institute (CCI)

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) Community College Institutes are conducted at National Laboratories across the country.

Each offers an ten-week summer research and educational training experience for highly motivated community college students. The same general model, eligibility criteria, stipend, and application procedures apply to the programs at each laboratory.

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CCI at BNL

At BNL, the emphasis of this program is to equip students with the necessary tools that assist in the choice of career options, whether it is entering the workforce as a technician, pursuing an undergraduate degree, or both.

This program places students form community colleges in paid internships in Science, Engineering and Technology at BNL. Because of the comprehensive nature of this program, many of the participants have felt it has had an enormous influence on their careers. Students work with scientists or engineers on projects related to the laboratories' research programs. They also attend career planning and numerous training/informational sessions.

The CCI at BNL will include features which have been the mainstay of our undergraduate programs since 1952.

Student participate in a Technical Internship, allowing the students to participate in one of BNL's ongoing scientific and technical projects.

• Students will participate in cutting-edge research or technology development, directed by a BNL staff member.
• The nature of the internship assignment will be determined after a review by BNL staff of the applicants' background and interests, relevant to the current scientific and technical activities at BNL.
• Students will have the chance to present their scientific or technical results both verbally and in writing, and may appear as a contributor to a scientific journal article or BNL report.

Student will also participate in Educational Enhancement Activities, offering not only a specific scientific or technical experience, but an in-depth exposure to the scientific enterprise.

• Students will spend approximately 20% of their time in specific group or individual activities designed to promote career development.

In addition, as a major user facility, BNL attracts visiting scientists, university faculty, and students from all over the world. Like them, CCI students will be treated as full colleagues in their research groups, and full members of the BNL community - able, as time permits, to attend or take part in scientific seminars, visit major BNL research facilities, and interact casually with other undergraduates, graduate students, and technical staff, as well as their own research groups. They may also participate in a wide variety of recreational activities available to laboratory employees.

CCI Administrator at BNL:

Noel Blackburn
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Building 438, PO Box 5000
Upton, New York 11973-5000
(631) 344-4503
(631) 344-5832 fax

Last Modified: November 5, 2009
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One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE's Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.

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