The Horizons Fellowship supports 10 outstanding university students in their pursuit to become leaders in technology. The program provides immersive software engineering and web/mobile development courses geared towards high-achieving college students. Students need not have a computer science background! Our curriculum, developed by ex-Salesforce and Optimizely engineers alongside PhD candidates in computer science, is designed to teach students how to build web, mobile, and desktop applications. We have 4-month semester programs and 3-month summer programs in cities across the U.S.
Horizons students have gone on to receive offers from firms such as Google, Facebook, Slack, Yelp, McKinsey, BCG, Visa, J.P. Morgan, and more
Our Horizons Speaker Series brings in successful founders, investors, and technologists into the classroom. You'll hear from some of the industry's foremost experts. We've had some amazing speakers like the founders of Zenefits, Coinbase, Digital Ocean, Andela, X.ai, Shapeways, and more.
Past Horizonites have come from a variety of schools and backgrounds. Students have hailed from Harvard, Princeton, UPenn/Wharton, Columbia, Northwestern, Brown, Michigan and more. We've welcomed National Math Olympiad winners, USA Computing Olympiad participants, renowned college entrepreneurs, students with perfect SAT/ACT scores, talented designers, photographers, and more as part of our previous cohort.
Application Process/Criteria
- Currently enrolled in (or recently graduated) an undergrad or graduate university program
- Submission of resume and standardized test scores on www.joinhorizons.com
- Series of fit and logic interviews
- Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Part-Time Research Assistant Position available now!
Description of Assignment
The task involves hand-collecting data from the web (inputting into a spreadsheet), and printing/saving hard copy back-up. Depending upon the individual’s level of skill, diligence, and patience in working with this sort of thing, it could take 40-80 hours (i.e., 1-2 weeks of full-time effort).
After one initial meeting with Prof. Demers, the work may be done on the individual’s own schedule. The Research Assistant needs to be detail-oriented and conscientious --- data integrity is of paramount importance.
There is a learning opportunity – the setting and overview of the project is interesting. It’s a realistic perspective on the “on-the-ground” work that is also part of empirical research, so if the student is inclined towards a research degree of any sort, this would enable them to get their feet wet.
Please write to Professor Elizabeth Demers for more information:
Elizabeth Demers