{"id":6108,"date":"2017-01-23T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/?p=6108"},"modified":"2017-01-23T22:34:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T22:34:33","slug":"fellowship-opportunity-the-horizons-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/fellowships\/fellowship-opportunity-the-horizons-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellowship Opportunity: The Horizon&#8217;s Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Horizons Fellowship<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/horizons.cmail2.com\/t\/i-l-uyirlid-mikvktjd-r\/\">The Horizons Fellowship<\/a><\/strong> supports 10 outstanding university students in their pursuit to become leaders in technology. The program provides immersive software engineering and web\/mobile development courses geared towards high-achieving college students. Students need not have a computer science background! Our curriculum, developed by ex-Salesforce and Optimizely engineers alongside PhDs in computer science, is designed to teach students how to build web, mobile, and desktop applications. We have 4-month semester programs and 3-month summer programs in cities across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Horizons Mentor Network includes current\/past employees of firms such as Google, Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat, and more. As a Horizons student\/graduate, you will have permanent access to this exceptional group of mentors to help with career choices, general mentorship, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Past Horizonites have come from a variety of schools and backgrounds. Students have hailed from Harvard, Princeton, UPenn\/Wharton, Columbia, Northwestern, Brown, Michigan and more. We&#8217;ve welcomed National Math Olympiad winners, USA Computing Olympiad participants, renowned college entrepreneurs, students with perfect SAT\/ACT scores, talented designers, photographers, and more as part of our previous cohort.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application Process\/Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently enrolled in (or recently graduated) an undergrad or graduate university program<\/li>\n<li>Submission of resume and standardized test scores on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/horizons.cmail2.com\/t\/i-l-uyirlid-mikvktjd-y\/\">joinhorizons.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Series of fit and logic interviews<\/li>\n<li>Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Horizons Fellowship The Horizons Fellowship supports 10 outstanding university students in their pursuit to become leaders in technology. The program provides immersive software engineering and web\/mobile development courses geared towards high-achieving college students. Students need not have a computer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/fellowships\/fellowship-opportunity-the-horizons-fellowship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fellowships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}