The Ames Robotics Academy (RoboAcad) is a summer internship program at NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) located at Moffett Field, CA. RoboAcad is for undergraduate and graduate students as well as high school students interested in robotics. With this 10-week program, NASA seeks to cultivate and sustain student academic interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and to address the gap in the robotics pipeline at the college level. This is achieved by enabling hands-on alliances between NASA, academic institutions, and industry partners, with whom students work to achieve high-level technical deliverables in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science.

RoboAcad is in its fourth year and has proved successful based on achievement of objectives and predefined evaluation criteria, as well as positive comments received from group leaders, partner participants, and others involved in the program.

Our academy is expected to run June 8 – August 14, 2009 (10 weeks) for college-level interns and June 15 – August 14, 2009 (9 weeks) for high school cadets. Those students with school schedules that conflict with these dates should indicate this on their applications or contact us ahead of time to discuss alternatives.

See the Academy Info page for more information on the academy and how to apply.