Entry Point! AAAS Project on Science, Technology, and Disability
Different groups offer unique backgrounds and lifestyles that contribute to a creative and dynamic scientific enterprise in the United States. True diversity involves including not only underrepresented groups such as women, minorities and LGBTQ professionals, but also professionals with disabilities. Entry Point! promotes this goal by connecting workplace partners with student interns who have disabilities.
Entry Point! provides a wide, national recruitment and screening effort to discover outstanding students with disabilities. Each year, it develops new pools of candidates with the technical knowledge and skills that Entry Point! partners desire. Qualified candidate referrals are sent to workplace partners to make the final hiring decisions. Interns and their managers at partner sites receive support during the program as well as post-placement follow-up and mentoring.
Our best applicants meet the following criteria:
- Enrollment as a full-time undergraduate or graduate student for the academic term before and after the desired internship
- Must have a disability – apparent or non-apparent
- Must have a grade point average of 3.0 (B) or better
- Must be living in the United States and legally authorized to work in the United States.