Salinas Valley Consortium for Sustainable Energy, Education and Research Internship Program

These resources, provided by Hartnell College, are administrative documents that were used for the National Science Foundation Salina Valley Consortium for Sustainable Energy, Education and Research 2014 summer internship program. Documents include two intern invitation letters, a letter of expectations, an intern agreement form, a stipend contract, and a PowerPoint presentation on responsible conduct of research.

The invitation letters, letter of expectations, and intern agreement form provide information on stipends offered, an orientation program, and expectations of interns and instructors. The PowerPoint presentation covers the following topics: data acquisition, management, sharing, and ownership; conflict of interest and commitment; financial conflict of interest; human subjects; animal welfare; research misconduct; and responsible publications. 

For orientation purposes ExpectationsNSF.pdf is included as a separate attachment and offers a sample of the type of material included.

Below is a list of the files contained within the .zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

Summer Internship Program (6 files, 2.1 MB)

• STEM Intern Invitation Letter (DearInternbest.pdf 87 KB)
• NSF ATE Summer Projects Expectations (ExpectationsNSF.docx 7 KB)
• Internship Letter (Internship Letter HS.pdf 148 KB)
• Non-Service Stipend Contract Agreement form (Non-Service Stipend Contract Agreement form.pdf  327 KB)
• NSF ATE Program Interns Orientation (NSF ATE Program Interns Orientation 13-14.docx 16 KB)
• Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR_COI_Orientation.pptx 1.5 MB)