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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Sci­ence and So­ci­ety

T&T students for NASA

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Last week, NI­HERST launched the T&T com­po­nent of the NASA In­ter­na­tion­al In­tern­ship Pro­gramme. This pro­gramme al­lows non�US stu­dents, both un­der­grad­u­ate and post­grad­u­ate, to work at a NASA fa­cil­i­ty with their US coun­ter­parts.

The ra­tio­nale for the pro­gramme is the pro­mo­tion of STEM (Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy, En­gi­neer­ing and Math­e­mat­ics) ed­u­ca­tion, both in the USA and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly. The USA, long a leader in ex­ploit­ing sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy for com­mer­cial and mil­i­tary pur­pos­es, is plac­ing a lot of em­pha­sis on STEM ed­u­ca­tion to en­sure it main­tains its pre­dom­i­nant po­si­tion. The progress of stu­dents from the Far East­ern coun­tries has been giv­en this thrust a greater sense of ur­gency.

T&T, through NI­HERST, was the first coun­try to be al­lowed this fa­cil­i­ty. The on­ly oth­er coun­try in the pro­gramme is Mex­i­co, through its Agen­cia Es­pa­cial Mex­i­cana. The NASA-NI­HERST agree­ment was signed in 2012 and is about to take off. NI­HERST will short­list ap­pli­cants but the fi­nal se­lec­tion will be done by NASA. It ex­pect­ed that three stu­dents will be giv­en in­tern­ships.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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