{"586078":{"#nid":"586078","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Horizons Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/horizons.cmail2.com\/t\/i-l-uyirlid-mikvutw-r\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThe Horizons Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;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.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe 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.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPast 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\u0026#39;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.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EApplication Process\/Criteria\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ECurrently enrolled in (or recently graduted) an undergrad or graduate university program\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ESubmission of resume and standardized test scores on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/horizons.cmail2.com\/t\/i-l-uyirlid-mikvutw-y\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ejoinhorizons.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ESeries of fit and logic interviews\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EApplications are accepted on a rolling basis.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Horizons Fellowship supports 10 outstanding university students in their pursuit to become leaders in technology."}],"uid":"33693","created_gmt":"2017-01-17 19:50:13","changed_gmt":"2018-01-25 17:43:23","author":"Kayleigh Haskin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"586077":{"id":"586077","type":"image","title":"horizons fellowship","body":null,"created":"1484682594","gmt_created":"2017-01-17 19:49:54","changed":"1484682594","gmt_changed":"2017-01-17 19:49:54","alt":"","file":{"fid":"223379","name":"horizons_school-799858ac88f5843a6fc5f064675810189a99c19cbf38a9766fc1b370a8206020.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/horizons_school-799858ac88f5843a6fc5f064675810189a99c19cbf38a9766fc1b370a8206020.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/horizons_school-799858ac88f5843a6fc5f064675810189a99c19cbf38a9766fc1b370a8206020.png","mime":"image\/png","size":7911,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/horizons_school-799858ac88f5843a6fc5f064675810189a99c19cbf38a9766fc1b370a8206020.png?itok=31bOqiUF"}}},"media_ids":["586077"],"groups":[{"id":"473211","name":"_OLD: School of History and Sociology Student Blog"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166849","name":"HSOC Blog"},{"id":"21451","name":"academic support"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}