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Fourth Application Deadline: Friday, January 24

Learn how to apply and review the application timeline here.

Start your application here!

On-Campus Events this Quarter

What’s the advantage of applying to at the 1/24 deadline as opposed to the 2/20 deadline?

• Higher chances of being admitted to your top choice region
• More access to transitional funding
• More time to prepare for your future students (if you wait until the last deadline, you won’t confirm your offer to TFA until April 1 – that’s just about two months before you would have to leave for your induction!)

Teach For America is developing a movement of leaders who will help drive change at every level of our education system toward the goal of closing the opportunity gap in America.  These leaders start their paths as corps members who teach for two years in urban and rural high-need communities and help students make the academic progress that expands their opportunities.  Deeply affected by their teaching experience, our alumni continue to advocate for students and build lasting change in many different roles and fields.

The Basics and Benefits:

• All academic majors and backgrounds accepted
• Regional placement is not random; applicants preference location in our 48 regions
• All grade levels (preK-12) and subjects including ELL and SpEd
• Salary ranging from $25,500-$51,000 a year with health insurance and retirement benefits
• Possible Americorps Education Award of $11,100 and loan deferment/forbearance
• Option to earn your certification and/or Masters in Education/teaching
• Graduate school and employer partnerships for alum to continue their leadership and impact

For additional information, explore our website and youtube channel or contact Katherine Kleitsch at katherine.kleitsch@teachforamerica.org.

Want help with getting an internship or job during this upcoming career fair? Then come to the ACM Winter Career Fair Prep Talk in 15 minutes in EEB105!

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Overview:

1/13 – ACM Career Fair Prep Talk

1/14 – Amazon Tech Talk

1/15 – Resume Review Workshop

1/16 – White Pages Tech Talk

ACM Career Fair Prep Talk

1/13; 5:30-6:30pm; EEB 105

Want to do better at the next career fair? Couldn’t go to the internship panel? Learn how to succeed for the next career fair by going to ACM’s Career Fair Prep Talk  next Monday at 5:30pm in EEB105! We’ll go over all your options and tips for how to get a job, direct from CSE majors who have gone through the same experiences you have.

Amazon Tech Talk: From Our Warehouse to Our Customers’ Hands: A Day in the Life of an Amazon Package

1/14; 6:00-7:15pm; EEB 125

From Our Warehouse to Our Customers’ Hands: A Day in the Life of an Amazon Package By Anand Varadarajan, Senior Manager in Fulfillment By AMAZON Team (With Amazon for over 6 years!) When: Tuesday, January 14th Where: EE 125 Time: 6:00-7:15pm Amazon is hiring Software Development Engineers for: Internships, Co-ops, and Full-Time. BRING YOUR RESUME! FREE FOOD and GIVE AWAYS!

Resume Review Workshop

1/15; 2:30-5:30pm; Atrium

Have your resume reviewed by recruiters from major companies. Refine your resume to let it shine!

Whitepages Tech Talk: Scalability Sucks

1/16; 6-7:30pm; EEB125

By: Dr. Steve Hanks, Principal Data Scientist, WhitePages.com For all CSE students who want to learn more about scalability. The world of Scalability is glamorous and magical: we get to use cool technologies with sexy names, and magical things happen, we have a tough problem and we throw a Scalability Technology at it, and results flow quickly and easily…..or so it seems from the outside and/or in the classroom. Our experience (WhitePages Data Group) has been a quite different. We have significant, challenging problems of scale, both in the size of our data artifacts, and in the number of updates we have to process to keep it accurate and up to date. But our day-to-day lives are much more mundane than the glamorous world where Hadoop meets NoSql meets Scala, and results flow smoothly, and bigger problems are solved by bolting on a node or two. While we are heavy users of Hadoop, are typically running EC2 instances in the hundreds, and are exploring three of four alternatives to Postgres, we have found no “silver bullet” technology, cutting-edge or otherwise. Rather, for us, scaling problems tend to be insidious and move around a lot, and we feel like firefighters (or worse, like mole-whackers) at least as often as we feel like Data Scientists. While we are heavy users of Hadoop, typically running EC2 instances in the hundreds and exploring three or four alternatives to Postgres, we have found no “silver bullet” technology, cutting-edge or otherwise.

If you want to get a project done, Startup UW has made Code Day for you! Code Day is 75% sold out so this your last chance! You can get 75% off with the code: STARTUPUW. Be sure to register at http://seattle.codeday.org/ so that you join in on something fun and build something awesome in just 24 hours.

When: January 18th-19th

Where: Appature, 1633 Westlake Avenue North, #400, Seattle Washington

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2013-14 (inaugural year)

College of Engineering Student Advisory Council

The College of Engineering is launching an Engineering Student Advisory Council to the Dean and is seeking undergraduate and graduate student applications.  Please circulate this call for applications to undergraduate and graduate students in your department.  It would be particularly helpful to encourage students whom you believe would be particularly effective members of this Council to apply.

The Engineering Student Advisory Council provides a student perspective on planning and budgeting matters for the College of Engineering.  The Council, which includes approximately 20 students (undergraduate and graduate), will meet monthly with the College of Engineering Dean or Associate Dean and some engineering staff.  Both the Council and the leadership of the College will provide discussion topics for the meetings.  The ideal membership of the committee will represent students from all backgrounds including women, underrepresented minorities, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender, low-income, transfer, residential, non-residential students, and Registered Student Organization (RSO) members.

The time commitment involved in serving on the Council is approximately 30-35 hours* annually including meeting times and post meeting responsibilities.  There are five council leadership roles including: Chair, Co-Chair, Historian, Associated Students of University of Washington (ASUW) Liaison, and Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) Liaison.  Council members will serve 1 year terms* with the exception of the Co-Chair who will assume the Chair position in their second term.

*The 2014 inaugural Council year will be shorter and less time-consuming in future years.

Students interested in applying to be members of the Engineering Student Advisory Council for the 2013-2014 academic year, should apply by January, 12, 2014.  Please contact John Davis, jhdavis3@uw.edu, if you prefer a hard copy of the application.  Please visit the Council website to learn more and to apply.  We look forward to receiving student applications.

Council Website: http://engr.washington.edu/mycoe/committees/sac.html

Council Application: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jhdavis3/217065

UW AMGEN SCHOLARS SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM

Interested in learning more about science and biotechnology research as a career? The UW Amgen Scholars Program provides a transformative opportunity for some of the nation’s top undergraduates to explore and prepare for careers in scientific research. For more information, visit: http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/amgen.

The application for the 2014 UW Amgen Scholars Summer Research Program is now live!  APPLICATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 3, 2014.

To learn more about the program, register to attend an upcoming Amgen Scholars Program Information Session: http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/courses/info/amgeninfosession.html.

NEXT INFORMATION SESSIONS: Winter Quarter

–Monday, January 13th – 12:30-1:30 pm in MGH 171
–Thursday, January 23rd – 2:00-3:00 pm in MGH 171

Best,
URP Staff

Want to do better at the next career fair? Couldn’t go to the internship panel? Learn how to succeed for the next career fair by going to ACM’s Career Fair Prep Talk  next Monday at 5:30pm in EEB105! We’ll go over all your options and tips for how to get a job, direct from CSE majors who have gone through the same experiences you have.

What: UW ACM Carreer Fair Prep Talk

When: Monday, January 13th 2014 5:30pm

Where: EEB105

Why: To be more successful at the next career fair!

RSVP on FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1375224156072638

Want to learn about how to make games? Then come check out the new Game Development Club.

This Club is a place for individuals to come and learn about popular technology and techniques behind game programming. Everyone is welcome from newbies and experienced developers.

The club meets every Thursday from 4-7 (but come whenever and stay for however long you would like) in Sieg 322. Snacks will be provided.

For more information email gamedevc@uw.edu.

The Mary Gates Endowment for Students is currently accepting scholarship applications.  Mary Gates scholarships provide $4,000 ($2,000 per quarter for two quarters) for students to pursue leadership or research activities.  These scholarships benefit students in the current academic year, and are open to all UW undergraduates regardless of class year, major or residency status.  Deadlines are coming up soon, so begin the application process, and attend an information session and application workshop.

Information Sessions (two sessions daily; select one):

Tuesday, Jan. 7, 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. & 12:30-1:20 p.m., MGH 171-E

Wednesday, Jan. 8, 3:30-4:20 p.m. & 4:30-5:20 p.m., MGH 171-E

Leadership Application Workshop:

Tuesday, Jan. 21, 4:30-6:00 p.m., MGH 171-E

Register to attend.

Research Application Workshops (select one):

Wednesday, Jan. 22, 4:30-6:00 p.m., MGH 171-E

Tuesday, Jan. 28, 4:30-6:00 p.m., MGH 171-E

Register to attend.

Leadership Deadline:

Monday, Jan. 27, 5:00 p.m.

Research Deadline:

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 5:00 p.m.

UW BOTHELL Advising and Info Session:

Thursday, Jan. 16, 1:30-3:00 p.m., UW1-103

UW TACOMA Advising and Info Sessions (select one):

Thursday, Jan. 9, 12:30-1:20 p.m., BHS 103 (focus on Leadership scholarships) – Register to attend.

Thursday, Jan. 9, 3:40-4:10 p.m., BB 106 – Register to attend.

Begin the online application and learn more on our website, expd.uw.edu/mge.  Email mgates@uw.edu with any questions.

Many thanks,

April Wilkinson

April M. Wilkinson

Adviser, Mary Gates Endowment for Students

Center for Experiential Learning & Diversity (EXPD)

University of Washington

Box 352803, Seattle, WA 98195

MGH 171  |  (206) 616-3925  |  amwilk@uw.edu  |  expd.uw.edu/mge

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Overview:

1/9 – Internship Panel

Internship Panel

1/9; 5:30pm-6:30pm; EE105

Ask our expert panel about internships and how to get them.