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USA Pathways Internship Program Hiring Fair

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Pathways Internship Program Hiring Fair
Hyatt Arlington Hotel
1325 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA  22209

The U.S. Department of State will accept on-site applications for the Pathways Internship Program (IEP and ITEP) at the following hiring event on Thursday, December 17, 2015.

Hiring Fair

Announcement Number

Dec. 17, 2015 (summer, spring break, holiday positions)

HRSC/PATH-2016-0006


Applications will be accepted from 9:00am to 11:30am and from 2:00pm to 6:00pm EST. If selected for an interview, you will be contacted and an interview will be scheduled.

The Pathways Internship Program targets students accepted for enrollment or currently enrolled in a qualifying educational program in an accredited institution, on a full or halftime basis with paid opportunities to work in agencies and explore Federal careers while still in school. Applicants must meet the definition of “student” in order to be considered for this opportunity.

Internship Temporary Experience Program (ITEP) are temporary appointments that allow for seasonal employment (during summers and holiday breaks from academic program) as well as year-round employment should their academic programs allow. These appointments are limited to a year or less with possibility for extensions in one-year increments.

Internship Experience Program (IEP) are smiliar to ITEP but offer non-temporary appointments and can last the duration of the student’s academic program.

If you have any questions or would like to search for topics of interest, please visit our forums or FAQs at careers.state.gov.

Applications for APAICS 2016 Summer Internship Now Available!

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Washington, D.C. – The Asian Pacific American Institution for Congressional Studies (APAICS) is now accepting applications for their 2016 Summer Internship Program. The internship is an eight-week program that provides select undergraduate students the opportunity to work in Washington. D.C., and experience American politics and public policy. APAICS interns are placed in U.S. congressional offices and federal agencies. The program develops leadership and professional skills, encourages political and civic engagement, and fosters a strong interest in public service careers.

APAICS Summer Internship Program provides a stipend of $2,000 and round-trip flight within the continental U.S. sponsored by Southwest Airlines (limited additional support is made available on a case by case basis).

Eligibility requirements:


  • Interest in government, public policy, and Asian American and Pacific Islander community empowerment
  • Evidence of leadership abilities and excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Current enrollment in an accredited two-year or four-year undergraduate educational institution. Recent graduates are also welcome to apply.
  • U.S. citizenship or legal permanent residency by June 1 (of internship summer).
  • Be 18 years of age by June 1 (of internship summer).

Applications are due by Friday, January 29, 2016.

For more information and to apply, please click here.

New Internship Opportunity in MN, USA

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The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is currently looking to hire 4 student workers into the Seeds Program.

The idea candidates would be majoring in communications/marketing/public relations/public advocacy, GIS, computer science or land surveying. These are year round, part-time flexible, paid positions. The Seeds program provides college level student worker positions to highly motivated minority or economically disadvantaged college students, recently separated veterans, or students with disabilities.

Attached is a one pager listing the current positions (with a small description of the tasks) we are looking to fill along with a flyer about the program.

If you know any students who are interested, please feel free to have them send their resumes to the Seeds Program Manager, Jessica Etukudo at Jessica.etukudo@state.mn.us. They will also need to formally apply to the program at the State of Minnesota careers site. The posting number is 158598000001.

More information about the Seeds Program and eligibility can be found at our website: http://www.dot.state.mn.us/jobs/seeds.html

CONTACT: ELIZABETH NELSON | STATEWIDE RECRUITER & WORKFORCE DIVERSITY CONSULTANT, MINNESOTA MANAGEMENT & BUDGET | ENTERPRISE HUMAN RESOURCES | EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION TEAM

400 CENTENNIAL OFFICE BUILDING | 658 CEDAR STREET | SAINT PAUL, MN 55155

651.259.3603 | ELIZABETH.A.NELSON@STATE.MN.US | WWW.MN.GOV/MMB & WWW.MN.GOV/CAREERS

CHECK OUT THE NEW STATE OF MINNESOTA CAREERS WEBSITE – http://mn.gov/mmb/careers/

The Girls Impact the World Film Festival 2016

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Deadline: 15 January 2016
Open to: college and high school students
Prizes: US$20,000 in prizes.

Description

 

The Girls Impact the World Film Festival, presented by the Harvard College Social Innovation Collaborative and Connecther, is a film festival and scholarship program for high school and undergraduate college students.

The festival accepts short films that either raise awareness or propose solutions to a variety of global women’s issues, including maternal health, microfinance initiatives, child marriage, sex-trafficking and poverty alleviation.

Films must be 3 to 5 minutes long and can be narrative, documentary, investigative reporting, music video, animation or curated film (film collage).

Eligibility

Applicants must be 25 or under and currently enrolled undergraduates or full-time high school students.

Prize

The festival will award US$20,000 in prizes.

Application

THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE GIRLS IMPACT THE WORLD FILM FESTIVAL. WE LOOK FORWARD TO REVIEWING YOUR FILM.

In order to apply, register HERE.

Before submitting, please check:
1)Does your film address at least one of the GITW issue areas (see guidelines page)?
1A) GREEN IS entries, please check box below, “Enter this film into the Green IS Contest”.
2)Is your film between 3 – 5 minutes?
3)Are you a current high school or undergraduate student?
4)Is your submission an ORIGINAL film?
5)Did you include the End Marker still image in your film?
Please read ALL Film Requirements before submitting your film.

Deadline for applying is 15 January 2015.

If you have any questions,  write to:  filmfest@connecther.org

For more information please visit the official website.

 

International Development Youth Forum 2016

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Deadline: 23 November 2015, 23:59 (GMT/UTC +09:00)
Open to: young people between 18 and 28 years old from all over the world
Venue: 6-13 March 2016 in Tokyo, Japan

Description

Since 2012 the International Development Youth Forum is held annually and youth with high ambition for international development get together from all over the world. In 2016 the IDYF will be held in Tokyo, Japan from 6th of March to 13th of March.

IDYF2016-  We aim to create a better future based on diversified values and experiences of youth from both developed and developing countries.

We aim to empower youth, who are to become the leaders of the future, by finding solutions to the problems of developing countries, through discussions with their peers from different backgrounds.

Our Program has three aims.

  • We build continuous network which participants can utilize in their future by inviting youth from all over the world who are interested in international development.
  • We strengthen the network of participants, by inviting more participants to the forum in the future.
  • We develop network among participants who attend the forum in different year by organizing reunion of alumni.

  • We provide opportunity to broaden knowledge or way of thinking through lectures or fieldwork according to the theme of the forum.
  • We provide opportunity to deepen one’s value through discussion in which participants meet with different value of others who have different backgrounds.

 

  • We make effort to produce outcomes which have value to society, not merely satisfy participants.
  • We provide opportunity to know what is needed to change society for the first step of participants’ career.

Eligibility

  • Youth from all over the world from 18 to 28 years old
  • Any nationality is welcomed
  • As we would like to provide opportunities for more people to participate in IDYF, we kindly ask members of IDYF of previous years to refrain from applying

Costs

40,000 JPY / person
*Accommodation and meals are included
*Insurance, transportation expenses (including transportation from the airport), accommodation before and after the program, are not included. Additional expenses may apply.
*We will contact your representative later regarding the method of payment

«About the scholarship»
…..We have a scholarship to allow youth with financial difficulties to join IDYF 2016. The scholarship will be given only to those who have passed stringent checks. The scholarship will include:

  1. Flight ticket
  2. Participation costs

Application

If you are selected as a member of IDYF2016, we will send you an e-mail to confirm your participation in our forum. Plus, we will post the list of the applicants who passed our selection, if you agree to put your name on our website. The result would be announced around 12th December, 2015.
In case you didn’t pass this selection process, we will not send any notification to you.

…..After the announcement, we will not accept the cancellation. Be sure to check your schedule before you apply to IDYF.

In order to apply, register HERE.

*Register your personal information and essay.
*The theme of your essays are as follows;

  1. Why do you want to participate in IDYF2016? (100-150 words)
  2. How can you use your experiences to contribute to IDYF2016? (200-250 words)
  3. Propose a solution for water pollution caused by industrial effluent.(200-300words)
  4. Suppose that the local traditional industry is giving a negative impact on the local environment under the status quo, how can youths realize environmental sustainability compatible with new business specializing in local traditional industry? (100-300 words)

Application deadline is 23th November 2015, 23:59 (GMT/UTC +09:00).

  • No applications will be accepted after the deadline.
  • Application will only be accepted once.
  • After we have received your application, we will send you a confirmation e-mail. If you do not get a confirmation e-mail by 26th November, please contact us at:　 idyf2016.enquiry@gmail.com

The official web-page.

 

USA Student Spaceflight Experiments Program

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Student Spaceflight Experiments Program

Mission 10 to the International Space Station

Apply by December 11, 2015

The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education announce Mission 10 to the International Space Station. This STEM education opportunity immerses students in grades 5-16 across a community in an authentic, high visibility research experience, where student teams design and propose real microgravity experiments to fly in low Earth orbit on the International Space Station.

Deadline for inquiry: All interested communities are asked to inquire by December 11, 2015; this allows schools and districts the time they need to assess interest with their staff and, if appropriate, move forward with an Implementation Plan.

Communities must be aboard by February 15, 2016 for experiment design and proposal writing phase from February 22 to April 22. The flight experiment will be selected by May 26. Launch of the Mission 10 to ISS “Casper” experiments payload is expected in Fall 2016.

More information: SSEP Home page, which provides an Executive Summary of the Program and the Mission 10 to ISS Flight Opportunity.  Of interest: SSEP was showcased in Scientific American, February 17, 2015

Questions?

Contact: Dr. Jeff Goldstein, SSEP Program Director; cell 301-395-0770;

jeffgoldstein@ncesse.org

Get involved in LADDER Citizen Journalist Initiative

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The WHO & the WHAT? 

• If you are a journalism lover and you practice it  – or would be interested to practice – in a non-professional way (maybe you write on a local paper, or you run a blog, or you are part of a university radio, or… you tell us!)

• If you are interested on global issues (including migration, human rights, development, poverty eradication, citizens’ participation, youth engagement, solidarity, cohesion and mutual understanding, women’s rights, multi-culturalism etc) from a local/national/European/global perspective

• If you are tightly connected to JEF Europe (you may be a volunteer, a member, but not a staff member)

• If you are a citizen of any age (youngsters most welcome!) from the EU and its Neighborhood

… then apply to the initiative! 

The project LADDER will create a network of citizen journalists (approx 50 people) from all over the enlarged Europe (all the EU countries represented by LADDER partners) who are already or wish to be involved, non professionally, in journalistic activities covering development issues

The WHY? 

We are setting up this network of citizens’ journalist because we believe that citizens are the CORE element of every democracy and society. Covering/ Writing about development issues is one thing, being promoted is another. We believe in your skills & want to support your coverage! JEF will select 2 citizen journalists, who will benefit from a dedicated support to promote their work (eg: booking a space on a newspaper, online blog, promoting the articles within its network, participation in local events etc).

In order to strengthen & promote the citizen journalist network and ensure its operational capacity, a dedicated training will be delivered, which will gather all selected citizen journalists. The trainers will include both ALDA experts, and external experts, and will enhance communication & journalism skills as well as development related topics knowledge. The date and venue of the training are under discussion and will be communicated once agreed.The costs for participation (travel & accommodation) for the selected participants will be covered by LADDER.

The citizen journalist network of LADDER will operate during the three-year project, until its completion in December 2017, and the pieces produced by the citizen journalists (interviews, articles, videos, cartoons, blog articles, etc.) will be widely disseminated through the communication channels of the partner of in country of origin, but also by ALDA and other LADDER organisations. In order to ensure a stronger impact and sustainability of the initiatives, actions will be put in place to make the network a permanent platform for communication of global and development issues.

TO APPLY: Please get in touch with us at info@jef.eu by 30/11/2015 with your resume (incl. proven background in journalism) and short motivation letter (350-400 words incl. your connection to JEF).

To apply, interested people have to contact JEF, and we will select the citizen journalist and communicate the names to ALDA, the project leader. It is important that citizen journalists are in tight connection with JEF, as they will bring in their voice, instances, and perspective. Therefore, volunteers and members are ideal candidates; staff members are instead not eligible.

More information about the LADDER project

The project “LADDER – Local Authorities as Drivers for Development Education and Raising awareness” started in January 2015 and will be running until December 2017 (36-month duration), including 46 organisations across 35 countries, coordinated by ALDA.

It’s an EU-funded project that intends to promote the action of Local Authorities & Civil Society to work on development education, that is raising awareness & promoting engagement of citizens on global issues (human rights, good governance, tolerance, eradication of poverty, development, mutual understanding & multi-culturalism, social cohesion, migration etc)

See the project website: www.ladder-project.eu
Get in touch with us at info@jef.eu
Or contact ALDA Project Manager, Nikos Gamouras at nikos.gamouras@aldaintranet.org

Download the full call in .pdf

Free Exchange Oversea Opportunity for USA high schoolers

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National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y)
The University of Minnesota’s NSLI-Y summer 2015 program has been featured on the NSLI-Y Interactive website. Visit the website to hear about the experiences of our Shanghai program participants.

Apply for the White House Fellows Program, due 1/12/16

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Apply for the White House Fellows Program

Founded in 1964 by Lyndon B. Johnson, the White House Fellows program is one of America’s most prestigious programs for leadership and public service. White House Fellowships offer exceptional young men and women first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the federal government. Selected individuals typically spend a year working as a full-time, paid Fellow to senior White House Staff, Cabinet Secretaries and other top-ranking government officials. Fellows also participate in an education program consisting of roundtable discussions with renowned leaders from the private and public sectors, and trips to study U.S. policy in action both domestically and internationally. Fellowships are awarded on a strictly non-partisan basis. Applications are now open and will be accepted until January 12, 2016, at 5:59 PM EST. Read more.

2016 APPLICATION: MN Capitol Pathways Internships for Students of Color

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2016 APPLICATION: MN Capitol Pathways Internships for Students of Color

https://docs.google.com/a/amamedia.org/forms/d/1tldFA64DnFlJwYvwKnLNW70q192ZoolIU1arWSjjSGs/viewform
Through this program, interns will build relationships with established capitol leaders (non-partisan staff, lobbyists, Republican/Democrat elected officials), gain exposure to various kinds of careers in policy, and get real-world experience in career fields they would like to learn more about — and build a strong professional resume in the process.Student participants: Any student in good academic standing at an accredited two- or four-year institution of higher education who identifies as a person of color may apply to participate. Preference will be given to students in undergraduate schools.

Program dates:
October 15 – Application opens
November 16 – Applications due
December 14 – Student applicants notified of decision
February 3 – Kickoff – Interns will gather in their first cohort meeting to meet each other and get an orientation
May 25 – Final day of internship

Internship details: In the program, students will:
– Be matched with a mentor working at the legislature for the 2016 session.
– Work at their internship 10 hours per week during the spring semester.
– Attend regular cohort meetings with their colleagues in the program for networking and skill-building sessions. Topics may include subjects such as policy analysis, written communications, public speaking, networking, career profiles, and others.
– Because the need to support themselves and/or their families is often a barrier for young people of color seeking internship experience, students will be paid for their working hours.

More details available here: www.citizensleague.org/mncapitolpathways
Questions? Call 612-584-2022