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Computing Community Consortium Blog

The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.

White House Internship, PIF, and other Fellowship Opportunities

March 9th, 2015 / in Announcements, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen Wright

Check out these upcoming internship and fellowship opportunities for students.

White House OSTP Internship– Deadline: Sunday, March 15th

The Office of Science and Technology Policy is currently accepting applications for its Summer 2015 Policy Internship Program. The application deadline is 11:59pm Sunday, March 15. Students who are U.S. citizens and who will be actively enrolled during the Fall 2015 semester are welcome to apply.

Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) – Deadline: rolling admission

The Presidential Innovation Fellows program brings the principles, values, and practices of the innovation economy into government through the most effective agents of change we know: our people. This highly competitive 12- month program pairs talented, diverse individuals from the innovation community with top civil servants to tackle many of our Nation’s biggest challenges, and to achieve a profound and lasting social impact. These teams of government experts and private-sector doers are using approaches like design thinking and lean startup to achieve results for the American people in months, not years. Click here to apply.

The CODE2040 Fellowship Program– Deadline: 2015 closed but enroll to learn of other opportunities

CODE2040’s flagship program places top performing Black and Latino/a college level computer science students from around the country in an intensive summer career accelerator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Students intern at top tech companies and participate in a series of career building sessions on evenings and weekends. Click here to learn more.

Global Citizenship Fellows Program– Deadline: rolling admission

The fellowship is a highly-competitive, full-time, 13-month program that prepares diverse, committed, and globally minded individuals for effective leadership in public service. Global Citizenship Fellows serve as grassroots and national spokespersons for children and bring together networks of faith-based communities, schools, universities, volunteers, advocates, elected leaders, and others to unite on behalf of children.

Applications are currently being accepted for the Global Citizenship Fellows Program Class of 2016. To apply and learn more, please visit the career page or send an email to globalcitizenship@unicefusa.org.