Abstract :
A program which gives students an opportunity to become acquainted with a Government research laboratory during their summer vacation periods is helping the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) to meet its increasing demand for high-caliber technical graduates. Having discovered for themselves the advantages of a professional career at NBS, 174 of 1957´s record enrollment are maintaining NBS affiliation: of the 236 students employed at the Washington (D.C.) laboratories in the past summer, 44 are still on full- or part-time duty, and 130 who plan to return to NBS have been granted leave without pay to continue their education. One half of the 208 students employed in 1956 were included in last summer´s program. Another 57 had remained on duty permanently. The program, inaugurated in 1948, was extended to the NBS laboratories in Boulder, Colo., in 1956, where it has already resulted in a number of permanent appointments.
