HBCU students gain real world S&T experience at the lab: The U.S. Army is one of the nation's largest providers of college scholarships, and in 2011 provided more than $230 million in ROTC scholarships, which included $100 million for HBCU students.

The Army Research Laboratory HBCU/MI program has provided more than $19 million to HBCU students for research and other initiatives since 2009, according to this article: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-us-army-showcases-its-talents-at-the-2012-essence-music-festival-161397425.html.

You have what it takes! For information about challenging intern opportunities in science and technology at the Army's corporate laboratory, visit http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=39.

(PHOTO: Kalonji Bankole is a rising senior who studies computer engineering at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He is working at ARL with the RF Signal Processing and Modeling Branch for a 12-week summer program this summer. Bankole worked in the area of augmented reality. He also worked on a graphics processing unit, taking the image from radar impulses and using it to create graphics.)