{"id":1535,"date":"2019-12-19T13:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2020-02-13T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:18:10","slug":"foreign-affairs-it-fellowship-u-s-department-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/2019\/12\/19\/foreign-affairs-it-fellowship-u-s-department-of-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Affairs IT Fellowship &#8211; U.S. Department of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Through the Foreign Affairs IT Fellowship<\/strong>,\u00a0the U.S. Department of State is seeking to attract top-notch tech talent to the Foreign Service ranks that reflects the diversity of the United States. Women, members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service and students with financial need are encouraged to apply to this challenging and rewarding opportunity. Two ITM students have been selected\u00a0for this program in the past, Akvile Kisis and Andreas\u00a0Vassilakos. You can see a video\u00a0of Akvile&#8217;s experiences in this program at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faitfellowship.org\/videos\/akvile-travel-make-a-global-impact-and-have-a-unique-it-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.faitfellowship.org\/videos\/akvile-travel-make-a-global-impact-and-have-a-unique-it-job\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576864094440000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEhjn0OToQgSjqSZO3k1iYCyb56Ig\">https:\/\/www.faitfellowship.org\/videos\/akvile-travel-make-a-global-impact-and-have-a-unique-it-job\/<\/a>\u00a0. We are pleased to be one of only two institutions\u00a0that has had more than one student selected for this program,\u00a0and they are certainly looking\u00a0for more from us. The program pays for the last two years\u00a0of undergraduate\u00a0education or for graduate education in information technology, with a stipend and two summer internships. Students completing the program serve for five years as Foreign Service Specialists in the U.S. State Department. You must be a U.S. citizen\u00a0to apply, and\u00a0<b>applications are due <del>February 15, 2020<\/del> update: midnight February 14, 2020<\/b>. Full details can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faitfellowship.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.faitfellowship.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576864094440000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF8htuv7G2DqyGo_biVRnxkfBmk9w\">https:\/\/www.faitfellowship.org\/<\/a>\u00a0 and the application is at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faitfellowship.org\/how-to-apply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.faitfellowship.org\/how-to-apply\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576864094440000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHJL307wbP6fLHqds3x_O_GjeMfhw\">https:\/\/www.faitfellowship.org\/how-to-apply\/<\/a>\u00a0. Andreas has generously offered to assist students in completing the application; you can contact him at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:avassilakos@hawk.iit.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">avassilakos@hawk.iit.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the Foreign Affairs IT Fellowship,\u00a0the U.S. Department of State is seeking to attract top-notch tech talent to the Foreign Service ranks that reflects the diversity of the United States. Women, members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service and students with financial need are encouraged to apply to this challenging and rewarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3884,7486,3904],"tags":[10217],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-jobs","category-stuff-for-students","tag-scholarships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}