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Also if you change the hours to 72 southern maryland and eastern shore get a couple more inches. When we dryslot for a couple hours down here in southern Maryland it looks like it will probably be sleet for hours 51-57 and possibly mixing with sleet a little during hours 48-51. After that it should be all back to snow for the majority of the area.

Yeah, still live in Calvert County. Currently going to College of Southern Maryland.

Yes, that was the reason that they changed the program but, I would say that the new program is even better for student interns. I'm currently in the SCEP program but will be converted to this new internship program sometime in 2012. http://www.gpo.gov/f.../2011-19623.pdf From the link above... "The Internship Program is for current students. It will consolidate provisions of the Student Educational Employment Program (SEEP) into a new student internship program designed to provide high school, vocational and technical, undergraduate, and graduate students opportunities to be exposed to the work of Government through Federal internships. This program is designed to attract the interest of students enrolled in a wide variety of educational institutions, with paid opportunities to work in agencies and explore Federal careers while still in school. Agencies may convert Interns who successfully complete program and academic requirements to any competitive service position for which the Intern is qualified, but they are not required to do so. It is expected that, even if an agency does not convert an Intern, service in the Internship Program will increase the likelihood that the Intern will consider applying for a Federal position at some point in the future, based upon the exposure to employment in the Pathways Program." To complete this program the interns must work 320(8 weeks) hours if the job is related to your career field or 640(16 weeks) hours if it is not related. They will also have to obtain a degree. After that it will be up to the employer whether or not to non-competitively convert them to a position. Before STEP interns were not allowed to be transferred into civil service but now with this program any intern can get a job in the civil service. The other difference is veterans will get there preference points for applying to student positions as long as they are students. Another difference is in the recent graduate program(Use to be FCIP). Regular students can get jobs under the recent graduate program no later then 2 years after completing college. While the Veterans will have up to 6 years after college to get into the recent graduate program. So, for anyone that doesn't think that this program is better then the SCEP/STEP/FCIP I would have to majorly disagree. It also gives student veterans a bigger advantage over regular student interns. While still giving regular students a chance to get in the government.