Internship with Learning Life

 SPRING 2018 INTERNSHIP: 

HELP CONNECT LOWER-INCOME DC FAMILIES WITH THE WORLD

ABOUT LEARNING LIFE & OUR CITIZEN DIPLOMACY INITIATIVE
Learning Life is an educational nonprofit in Washington D.C. that spreads learning in everyday life beyond school walls. Learning Life’s flagship program, the Citizen Diplomacy Initiative (CDI), engages lower-income American families, starting in Washington D.C.’s Ward 8, in live internet dialogues and project collaborations with lower-income families in other nations, including El Salvador, Senegal and Jordan. CDI aims to democratize diplomacy, and nurture more caring, capable global citizens.

ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP
Learning Life is now accepting resumes from interested metro D.C. graduate and undergraduate students interested in interning with our Citizen Diplomacy Initiative in Washington D.C. Depending on each student’s interests and skills plus our organizational needs, interns assist with a variety of tasks including outreach to find families, volunteers and partners locally and abroad, implementation of live international dialogues and local learning activities on health, community and world affairs; research and writing; photo and video; fundraising; document translation, and/or live language interpreting.

Interns must be able to commit 8-10 hours per week, consisting of a 3-4 hour event on Saturday or Sunday in DC with our participating children and families (e.g., family learning meetings, international dialogues, potlucks, field trips, learning games) and a 4-5 hour work meeting in DC with fellow interns and Learning Life’s Director, Paul Lachelier.

This opportunity is unpaid, but offers substantive, resume-building experience on an innovative international initiative, and a formal reference and/or recommendation letter upon request given satisfactory performance.

THE INTERNS WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Applicants should be interested in international affairs, languages, education, children, health and nutrition, and/or social justice. Applicants should also be outgoing, organized, detail-oriented, motivated and punctual. Native or fluent speakers of Arabic, Spanish or French are strongly encouraged to apply. Having a car is a strong plus, but not required.

HOW TO APPLY
Email Paul Lachelier directly at paul@learninglife.info with your resume and times you are available in the next seven days for a phone interview.

Learn more about Learning Life here!

Summer 2018 Internships at AAG

Internships at the American Association of Geographers
The AAG seeks interns on a year-round basis for the spring, summer, and fall semesters.

Interns participate in most AAG programs and projects such as education, outreach, research, website, publications, or the Annual Meeting. The AAG also arranges for interns to accompany different AAG staff on visits to related organizations or events of interest during the course of their internship. A monthly stipend of $500 is provided and interns are expected to make their own housing and related logistical arrangements. Enrollment in a Geography or closely related program is preferred but not a prerequisite for these opportunities.

Applications
Applicants should forward a resume, brief writing sample, and three references to Candida Mannozzi, cmannozzi@aag.org 

More information on internships at the AAG is also available on the Jobs & Careers section of the AAG website

Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society

Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society applications are now available. Eligible junior and senior students should visit www.odk.umd.edu to begin the application process. Applications must be received electronically no later than 11:59 p.m., Friday, February 9​, 201​8​.

Attached you will find more information about ODK and the application process.
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​If students are selected to join ODK, we try to “tap” them for membership at the beginning of one of their classes during the week of February 26​-March 2​, 2018​. We hope you can help us encourage your faculty to allow this brief two minute interruption. If any faculty members have specific questions, please suggest they contact me directly.

Geospatial Analysis Internship

China Fertility Decline Symposium

Scholarship Opportunity from RGI

For more information, click here!

GEOG498I/788I

Are you still looking for a class to take? Did you drop a class because you were looking for something a little more interesting? Have you already taken every other GIS course that GEOG offers? Look no further than this great course offered on Tuesday from 12:30pm–1:45pm.

GEOG498I/788I: Topical Investigations: Data Structures for Geospatial Computing

The aim of the course is to familiarize the student with the fundamentals of geospatial representations, such as spatial indexes and network data structures, and with techniques for manipulating geospatial information for geographic information systems, for spatially-based decision systems and location-based services. The main topics will be vector-based map representation and querying techniques, manipulation and analysis of terrain models, network representations for applications to road networks and social networks, scalable representations for big geospatial data. Students with some programming background will highly benefit from this course.

Find the syllabus here!