{"606498":{"#nid":"606498","#data":{"type":"news","title":"OMSCS Receives Funding for First-ever Fellowship Grants","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program has received funding for its first-ever fellowship grants.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/landing.snaptravel.com\/scholarships\u0022\u003EOMSCS SnapTravel Fellowships\u003C\/a\u003E will provide two $1,000 fellowships. One fellowship will be awarded annually to a qualified student demonstrating entrepreneurial initiative. The second will be awarded annually to a qualified female or minority student. The total cost of an OMSCS degree is approximately $6,600.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fellowships are inspired by \u003Cstrong\u003EHenry Shi\u003C\/strong\u003E, a recent \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.omscs.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003EOMSCS\u003C\/a\u003E graduate and co-founder of Toronto-based SnapTravel.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.omscs.gatech.edu\/features\/omscsalumni\/henryshi-snaptravel\u0022\u003E[FULL STORY: OMSCS Alumnus and Co-Founder of SnapTravel Gives Back with New Fellowship Program]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m a young founder, and I feel like a lot of young founders aren\u0026rsquo;t necessarily thinking of giving back so early in their startup careers,\u0026rdquo; said Shi.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;For me, it\u0026rsquo;s incredibly important to pay forward my experiences \u0026mdash; especially with a program like OMSCS, an idea that\u0026rsquo;s so new and mission-driven that it wasn\u0026rsquo;t even possible just five years ago.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInterested OMSCS candidates can\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/landing.snaptravel.com\/scholarships\u0022\u003Evisit the SnapTravel\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/landing.snaptravel.com\/scholarships\u0022\u003Ewebsite to submit an application\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for one of the two available OMSCS SnapTravel Fellowships. Applicants must be students currently enrolled in the program, or who have applied and been accepted to the program.\u0026nbsp;The deadline to apply for the 2018\/19 academic year is June 30.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New fellowship grants will support two OMSCS program students each year."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2018-05-25 18:31:33","changed_gmt":"2018-05-25 18:36:30","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"606499":{"id":"606499","type":"image","title":"OMSCS Fellowship grants","body":null,"created":"1527273224","gmt_created":"2018-05-25 18:33:44","changed":"1527273224","gmt_changed":"2018-05-25 18:33:44","alt":"Recent OMSCS grad Henry Shi has funded two new fellowships","file":{"fid":"231326","name":"henryshi-snaptravel-campusvisit.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/henryshi-snaptravel-campusvisit.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/henryshi-snaptravel-campusvisit.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":523011,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/henryshi-snaptravel-campusvisit.jpg?itok=81Zy1MRo"}}},"media_ids":["606499"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"121521","name":"OMSCS"},{"id":"178109","name":"Snap Travel"},{"id":"5731","name":"fellowships"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlbert Snedeker, Co-Interim Communications Director\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu?subject=OMSCS%20Fellowships\u0022\u003Ealbert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}