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Welcome to the JSC Coopative Education Mentoring website! This site is designed to help you in your role as student, mentor, or supervisor in the Johnson Space Center's Cooperative Education Program.

Are you a new Co-op student? Visit our Students section to learn important details about working at Johnson Space Center, your first day of work, and tips for a successful tour. Are you a mentor? Our Mentors section contains valuable pieces of professional advice to help you make the most of this unique leadership experience. For you Supervisors, we have valuable instructions to help maximize the benefit, for one and all, of having Co-op students in your offices and programs.

Since it opened in the early 1960's, Johnson Space Center has enabled college students from all over the country to become involved with the space program. Through the Cooperative Education Program, the largest student education program at JSC, students - "Co-ops" - are given practical experience applying principles and theories learned in the classroom. JSC also benefits from this program by receiving a source of future employees for scientific, engineering, and administrative positions.

Co-ops work at JSC on alternate semesters or quarters (ranging from 10 to 20 weeks) as paid, full-time employees in positions directly related to their field of study. Co-ops are full-time students, both graduate and undergraduate, with a mean grade point average range of 3.3 to 3.5, and also have at least 30 hours from an accredited four-year educational institution.