Work periods are coordinated with and approved by your supervisor and a Pathways Program specialist. Calculate your projected graduation date by including all work periods. You must complete a minimum of 480 hours of work at NASA prior to completing your degree requirements.

• Many interns follow a traditional cooperative education model, alternating between periods of work and leave without pay. Example: Intern works a fall semester at NASA, takes leave without pay for the spring semester to attend school, then returns to NASA to work the summer semester. Some work continuously at NASA while taking classes until graduation.
• A work period is a period during which you are charging work hours to NASA and are not on leave without pay. If you will be working continuously at NASA, your work period will begin with your entry on duty and end on your school graduation date.
• Changes to this schedule are at the discretion of the supervisor and is dependent on funding availability and subject to coordination with the Pathways Program Specialist.
• Requests for extended leave without pay or non-work terms are subject to approval by your supervisor in coordination with the Pathways Program Specialist.

Please provide, below, a proposed schedule of up to five work periods.