Elementary School Program
With the goal of introducing young students to the fundamentals of technology, the IT staff developed a curriculum that educated young students on how computers and networks support the science at Berkeley Lab.
The program is a hands-on introduction to technology. Click here for more information.
IT User Support Internships
Since late 1998, the IT Division has worked with local community colleges to employ interns. The School to Career program was developed by the Berkeley Lab's Diversity Office (Harry Reed), Charlie Verboom and the ITSD Division in late 1998, and Dr. Bidleman, an instructor with the Peralta District, as our educational partner.
The program offers occupational work experience scaled to the requirements of the colleges. Participants must be considered full time students taking 12 credits or more. Interns work on a part-time basis, up to 20 hours per week while in school, with a mentor in the IT Division. The internship may be as short as three months, but it more typically lasts for six months or even longer. Interns have benefited. Some hold jobs at the Lab today, and many others have found employment at other companies due to their experience with Berkeley Lab.
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Science-IT
For students majoring in Computational Science, Computer Science, Physical Science or related science and engineering fields, Berkeley Lab’s SCIIT hosts a 10-12-week summer program that provides students with the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience. Participants have the opportunity to work on projects focusing on embedded research support, high-performance computing and application of IT capabilities and collaborative and creative technologies to promote division communication and branding.
The program covers both summer and scholastic year internship opportunities in three areas:
Embedded Research Support Internships: focused on identifying curious, mature, self-motivated students who want to support science and learn more about data analytics at the same time. The ideal student will have a background in the physical sciences and ideally with some experience with laboratory benchtop work and familiarity with R, Python or basic statistics. Students will embed with a scientific laboratory team and work as a laboratory tech for several weeks while documenting how their project scientists collect, manage, analyze and store data. They will then work with Science-IT staff to capture information technology requirements, and propose and implement solutions in the scientific areas.
Science-IT Support Internships: focused on students with a background in Computer Science, Information Technology and related who want to learn more about High Performance Computing and application of IT capabilities to support science compute, storage, and data management needs. Depending on interest, and abilities/experience, students will embed with staff in User Support’s Workstation Support, Collaborative Services, Help Desk or Scientific Computing groups to be exposed to a wide variety of institutional IT capabilities.
Science-IT Collaboration Internships: focused on students with a background in technical writing, journalism, web/social media content creation and editing, AV support, video content editing and creation, and other collaborative & creative technologies. Depending on interest and abilities, interns may also contribute with Division level branding and outreach tasks as well as support for other IT-Division communication or collaboration efforts.
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Lab's policy on Diversity
"Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is principally an institution of scientific research, committed to addressing the needs of society. A diverse workforce is an invaluable asset to innovation and research excellence. To this end, we must embody the following principles to successfully affect the Laboratory's mission and embrace our diverse workplace community."
The lab's Workforce Diversity website and guiding principles are here.
