Undergraduate Research Assistantships Undergraduate research assistantships are year-round research opportunities for junior and senior level undergraduates. Students are paid hourly wages. The number of students and wage rates depend on the available resources. STEP seeks to provide service to communities by helping them to understand and work toward resolving water-related issues. Participating STEP students learn and develop technical, analytical, and communication skills while studying community problems and helping local residents find solutions to those problems.
STEP pays stipend, travel and working-expenses, while the communities provide room and board.
Click here for more information. In both situations, service-learners live in the Virginia Tech vicinity and work in the host community as needed. STEP maintains the community contacts needed to offer potential projects to course instructors and interested students. For more information, please contact the STEP staff. For detailed information STEP Program 4.