The National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) invites students who meet eligibility requirements to apply to the prestigious NASA Langley Aerospace Research Student Scholars (LARSS) summer internship program, located in Hampton, Virginia. All majors are accepted!  The LARSS program hosts over 200 interns annually.

This program is intended to encourage high-caliber college students to both pursue and earn graduate degrees and to enhance their interest in aerospace research by exposing them to the professional research resources and facilities of LaRC. Two primary elements of LARSS are: (1) a research project completed by each participant under the supervision of a researcher who assumes the role of mentor for the summer and (2) technical lectures by prominent engineers and scientists. Additional elements of the project include tours of LaRC wind tunnels, computational facilities and laboratories.

The LARSS Program boasts the following:

• NASA’s most prestigious and successful student research program
• Recently ranked among the top ten best internships in the nation by Vault Career Intelligence.com
• PAID internship
• Exciting hands-on research and engineering projects under NASA scientists engineers/mentors