CSIRO vacation scholarship student Bryan Huang has built an autonomous doughnut-shaped blimp that can guide people from reception to rooms in CSIRO’s QCAT building in Brisbane.

Summer scholarships for students of information and communication technologies

Spend the summer working on your own project at CSIRO's ICT Centre.

• 7 September 2011 | Updated 14 October 2011

• About us
• The scholarships
• Eligibility
• Travel and accommodation
• How to apply

Undergraduate vacation scholarships are available every summer at CSIRO's ICT Centre.

Get hands-on experience working on real-world problems under the supervision of a research scientist or engineer.

About us

CSIRO's ICT Centre delivers leading-edge information and communication technology (ICT) solutions for industry and society.

Our research is based in five laboratories:

• Wireless and Networking Technologies
• Information Engineering
• Autonomous Systems
• Australian e-Health Research Centre
• Tasmanian ICT Centre.

Find out more about the CSIRO ICT Centre.

Read more technical details of our work at ICT Centre [external link].

The scholarships

The scholarships run from the end of November to February the next year.

During your time with us, you'll get the opportunity to:

• work in exciting areas of cutting-edge ICT research
• gain hands-on research experience
• access CSIRO's state of the art facilities and equipment
• work alongside internationally recognised research scientists and engineers
• learn how to present their work
• participate in a conference with CSIRO scientists and vacation students from other parts of CSIRO.

Students are paid a stipend of A$685 per week.

Eligibility

Summer vacation scholarships are open to Australian residents enrolled at an Australian university who have completed at least three years of undergraduate study and have a credit average or higher.

Travel and accommodation

Students who secure a scholarship in a state other than where they live will have basic travel costs between capital cities covered (for example, a student living in Melbourne might receive the cheapest available airfare to Sydney).

Interstate students will also be paid a living allowance on top of their stipend.

How to apply

Applications for positions at CSIRO's ICT Centre are currently closed and will open again around July 2012.

Find out what students around CSIRO got up to last year in What I did on my holidays.