Sun, August 16, 2015 at 10:05AM NASA US education projects for students.
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/descriptions/All_Alpha.html
NASA in USA, internship Sun, August 16, 2015 at 10:01AM The Google Student Ambassador Program is an opportunity for students to act as liaisons between Google and their universities. These ambassadors:
https://www.google.com/edu/resources/programs/student-ambassador-program/
student ambassador in internship Sun, August 16, 2015 at 9:50AM Partners with hundreds of companies to set up special on-ramps into apprenticeships and jobs in technology that bypass your credentials and focus on you. If you have the aptitude, professionalism, and skills to get a job, LaunchCode can help you get your foot in the door.
code, technology in USA Tue, April 28, 2015 at 8:42PM by Taylor Soper on 8/15/2014 at 10:30 am
The big gender gap in the tech industry is well-documented by now. For a variety of reasons, many girls begin to lose interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields when they reach middle and high school. The gap widens even more when students arrive at college and decide their career paths.
That’s why efforts like App Camp for Girls are crucial to help young women stay engaged with tech-related subjects.
The program brought together 14- and 15-year-old girls from Seattle last week to spend five days learning about mobile app creation. On the final day, teams pitched their ideas to women leaders in technology like Moz CEO Sarah Bird and Porch.com CMO Asha Sharma.
Many campers acknowledged that they arrived on Monday fearful of computer programming and unsure of what exactly it entailed. But by the end of the week, as the girls explained how their apps would generate revenue, and the philosophy behind their design choices, their confidence was obvious.
“I was extremely scared before this week, and now, well, it’s still kind of scary — but it seems a little bit easier,” said Lavinia Dunagan, a seventh grader at The Overlake School.
It’s the latest initiative in the Seattle region designed to engage kids, and specifically girls, with computer science and programming. The University of Washington has been running computer science camps for years as part of its broader outreach program for K-12 education.
App Camp began last year in Portland as the brainchild of Jean MacDonald, a former partner at Mac and iOS development firm Smile Software, who was inspired to start the program after volunteering for Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in Portland. App campers were taught by a team of women volunteers who are familiar with iOS programming, and given iPod Touches for the week so they could build and test their apps.
One goal of App Camp is to eliminate the stereotype of what it means to work in the tech industry. The campers learn that computer programming, while difficult, can also be fun, social, and creative.
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In other words, technology is not just about nerdy boys coding in their basements.
“I think they were surprised at how much fun they had making apps,” MacDonald said. “That’s our goal, really.”
The girls began the week by learning the ways that apps can help users overcome common challenges. From there, they were introduced to Apple’s Xcode developer toolset, and learned how to create different features within an app.
They eventually formed teams and built apps that were all about quizzes. For example, one group came up with a program that tells a user where to travel based on questions they answer. Another recommended the best social media site to use.
In between, the girls enjoyed breaks away from the screens with yoga and hula-hooping. All in all, it was a fun-filled week, designed to teach the future programmers more than just technical skills.
“The biggest thing I learned is that if you persevere, no matter what kind of things you run into — like arguments with teammates, or bugs in your program — if you work hard, then you can do what you want to achieve,” said Maya Hayse, an eighth grader at Pathfinder K-8 school. “It’s what happened to us. At first, we didn’t think we could do this. But in the end our app turned out really well because we worked together and we worked really hard.”
Judges and volunteers called the experience invaluable for the girls. Nat Osten, a developer at Smile Software who designed the curriculum for App Camp, explained how she became discouraged in middle and high school from pursuing her interests in technology. It wasn’t so much the boys, Osten said, but rather the lack of a mentor who could encourage her to keep studying subjects like computer science and math.
So instead, she went to college to learn how to paint. Osten said that a program like App Camp would have kept the now-iOS development expert inspired to study her passions after high school.
“It was about the teachers not believing in me,” Osten said. “I think if we can change the gender imbalance, we can get more women interested in coding and we can keep those kids from falling through the cracks.”
Tue, April 28, 2015 at 8:39PM By Tim Sturrock August 11, 2014
Ivy League graduates may have a "brand-name" advantage over alumni from less-prestigious universities when they enter the asset management industry, but some schools have upped their standing in the eyes of asset managers by placing millions of dollars into the hands of students to invest.
The programs give students the experience of vetting, analyzing and monitoring securities, pitching them to investment committees and watching their decisions sink or swim in the market. And it can give hiring managers a better sense of a candidate’s commitment and suitability for the profession. Student-managed funds, which handle a wide range of assets – from more than $1 million in some cases to as much as $50 million – are designed to give students the experience to land jobs at managers like J.P. Morgan Asset Management and BlackRock.
"It allows students to build that skillset in a hands-on manner. [They] climb the steepest part of the learning curve; hit the ground running, and help that firm feel good about investment that they are making and the hires from our school," says Brian Hellmer, director of the Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis (ASAP) at the University of Wisconsin. ASAP accepts at least 12 MBA students per year and manages $50 million in an $8 million equity fund owned by ASAP and a $42 million fixed income fund managed on behalf of the university system’s pension.
Over the last ten years, ASAP alums have snagged jobs at large firms like BlackRock, Putnam Investments and Wellington Management as well as smaller firms like BMO Global Asset Management and institutions like the Colorado Public Employees Retirement System and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board.
There are more than 300 student portfolios in the U.S. overseeing more than $400 million in assets as of 2012, according to a study from Boston University.
Some of the larger funds exist in the Big Ten conference. The University of Minnesota’s Carlson Enterprise Funds manages $38 million in fixed income and equities. Ohio State University’s Student Investment Management fund manages $10 million.
Elsewhere, the University of Dayton’s Davis Center for Portfolio Management manages more than $18 million.
But, whether a university has a student-managed fund or not, Ivy leaguers still have an edge, according to statistics from eVestment.
In fact, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and Columbia University have produced more investment managers than any other schools in the U.S. Penn ranks above Harvard and unlike Harvard, it has a program – with $1.8 million under management – that allows students to invest endowment funds.
But schools like Harvard don’t have to offer the programs to compete as other schools do, says Michael Kennedy, senior client partner at the search firm Korn Ferry.
Firms pursue Ivy League students whether or not they have experience.
"Their view is that they can take those students and teach them what they need to know," he says.
But experience at a good student-managed fund at a state school can make a difference to managers and help candidates in the interview process, he says.
"The student who goes through the program has an advantage because that’s what they have been doing for the last year," he says, adding that managing real money creates an experience much closer to working at a large firm. "If you have money at risk, that’s something that you check on a daily basis because you’re following and researching them more closely."
Not only do student-managed funds create good candidates, he adds, but some of brightest students decline to go to Ivy League schools because they can get good experience at student managed funds at smaller-name state schools.
But with 300-plus student investment programs around the country, the extent of the benefit they provide can vary.
The quality of the program, rather than the size of the fund makes the biggest difference, says Hellmer, adding that programs that give more responsibility and resources to students generally have more impact than semester-long classes where the professor makes the final call.
"What makes the experience so real world and valuable is that there is no safety net," he says of ASAP. "I’m not telling students what to do. I’m helping them understand the ramifications of what they have chosen to do," he says.
When Morgan Metz was accepted to the University of Dayton’s program which manages more than $18 million in endowment funds, it took some time to adjust mentally to the responsibility, says Metz, now an associate portfolio manager at J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
"At that point in time it seemed like such a large amount of money," she says.
She attributes her hiring to her experience at the Davis Center something that the J.P. Morgan asked about frequently in her interviews in 2011. And she was able to provide concrete answers based on experience, she says.
"They very much focused on how my experience formed a conviction that I wanted to be an investor," she says, adding that they asked "Did I like researching a company? Did I like researching an investment thesis?"
And some program-participants have reached higher echelons of investment management.
Tom Madsen, the former global head of equities for UBS and a board member of Martin Currie, attributes his start in investment management in 1979 to his work at ASAP in Wisconsin. At the time, large investment managers rarely hired outside of the Ivy League.
At the age of 22, J.P. Morgan had four senior portfolio managers interview him at once, and he spent an hour explaining why ASAP invested the way it did, and he even tipped them off to Mylan Labs, a stock they were unaware of at the time.
"It was everything," he says of the program. "I’m convinced that’s how I got the job."
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