by Guest » Thu Apr 06, 2017 5:06 am
You will be able to take an internship the summer directly following accepting a SMART award. The rules about working are a little funky, but it basically broke down like this for me:
While actively studying, I was allowed to work up to 16 hrs/wk averaged over my paycheck. That is, one week I could work 20 hours and the next week I could work 12, because all my pay stub showed was that I worked 32 hours in 2 weeks. While not actively studying (summer/winter breaks) I was allowed to work any number of hours I wanted to, and did actually work 40 hour weeks. This includes summers where I interned for SMART, while I was not actively a SMART intern (ex: My internship went May 15- Aug 15, I can work 40 hours/wk from Aug 15 - start of University).
One wrinkle in this: if you happen to be taking a DoD or federally funded internship this immediate summer, you are not allowed to be on that internship and a SMART scholarship at the same time. That is, if you happened to be part of the NREIP program you would need to stop work before August 1st. However, if you happened to be working at a private company, you could keep working at 40 hrs/wk until the start of school, when you would have to drop to 16. I'm not sure how this interacts with NSF grants (REUs) but I imagine you could get away with doing both of those.
Hope this helps
You will be able to take an internship the summer directly following accepting a SMART award. The rules about working are a little funky, but it basically broke down like this for me:
While actively studying, I was allowed to work up to 16 hrs/wk averaged over my paycheck. That is, one week I could work 20 hours and the next week I could work 12, because all my pay stub showed was that I worked 32 hours in 2 weeks. While [b]not[/b] actively studying (summer/winter breaks) I was allowed to work any number of hours I wanted to, and did actually work 40 hour weeks. This includes summers where I interned for SMART, while I was not actively a SMART intern (ex: My internship went May 15- Aug 15, I can work 40 hours/wk from Aug 15 - start of University).
One wrinkle in this: if you happen to be taking a DoD or federally funded internship this immediate summer, you are not allowed to be on that internship and a SMART scholarship at the same time. That is, if you happened to be part of the NREIP program you would need to stop work before August 1st. However, if you happened to be working at a private company, you could keep working at 40 hrs/wk until the start of school, when you would have to drop to 16. I'm not sure how this interacts with NSF grants (REUs) but I imagine you could get away with doing both of those.
Hope this helps