U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service SCEP, Deadline: December 23, 2011

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hosts the Student Career Experience Program (SCEP).  SCEP was established to recruit students, to support equal opportunity employment objectives, provide exposure to public service, and to promote education.  This program includes positions in scientific and administrative occupations within the Headquarters Offices in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

To qualify for a Student Trainee position(s), your academic field of study must be related to the SCEP position(s).  Your education and/or related experience will be evaluated to determine qualification for the SCEP position(s) and grade(s).  All related experience (e.g. volunteer, student trainee and non-student trainee) for the SCEP will be evaluated to determine if it is creditable.

For additional information, please visit this website: http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/indexes/0400-ndx.asp
or contact: Colleen Kirchmaier, Human Resources specialist at #703-325-1743.

Idea to Product Competition, Deadline: October 10, 2011

Idea to Product (I2P) is a unique academic competition looking at ideas at their earliest stage.  I2P is not a business plan competition.  I2P only requires a one-page submission, done according to a format, outlining an idea for a product or service and its market.  This approach makes it possible for people across campus to develop and present ideas, obtain feedback, and start the process of invention or product development and commercialization. 

The Technology Entrepreneur Center is hosting the University of Illinois I2P campus competition in 301 CSL.  Competing students should submit an online entry.  Up to 10 student ideas will be selected for the Illinois campus round of IP2 on October 20, 2011.

Online entries for the Illinois campus round of IP2 are due by October 10, 2011.

For more information, please visit the IP2 website.

International Business Immersion Program, Deadline: November 1, 2011

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS IMMERSION PROGRAM, ACE/BADM 436 APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE!

www.ibip.illinois.edu

DEADLINE TO APPLY NOVEMBER 1, 2011.

Don’t miss this opportunity to study international agribusiness supply chains by experiencing them first-hand in Europe!

The program has three components: a course in the Spring Semester of 2012 (Tuesdays 3:30-5:20pm) , a two-week study tour to Europe from May 12-26, and a final presentation in the fall of 2012.

IBIP Info Sessions:
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Monsanto Room of the ACES Library
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Wednesday, October 12, 2011
in rooms 3015/3017 BIF
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The 2012 IBIP program will be headed to Europe from May 12-26, 2011. Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors graduating in December 2012 are encouraged to apply. May 2012 graduating Seniors will not be considered.

The program is housed in the College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, but is cross-listed in the College of Business Administration and works closely with many of the Title VI Cultural Centers as well as CIBER, Center for International Business Education and Research.

The program requires a $1,500 course fee, to be paid in three installments. Students are also responsible for airfare. Students are encouraged to apply for internal IBIP scholarship support after having been admitted to the program. In addition, students should apply for the study abroad funds that the colleges offer.

During the spring semester, the course will focus on international business in the European Union. Students will become experts in one particular industry from a comparative perspective, working in teams. During the study tour, we will visit multinational companies, regulators, farmers, and local companies.

The program is sponsored in part by: ADM, Bunge, Monsanto, and the Caterpillar Foundation, OSI Group, BASF, and the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)This program would not be possible without their continued generous support and enthusiasm in helping to develop global leaders

For more information contact Prof. Andrea Martens, amartens@illinois.edu or Lynnea Johnson at lsjohnso@illinois.edu and check out former student experiences at www.ibip.illinois.edu.

Entrepreneurship Workshop in Silicon Valley, Deadline: October 7, 2011

The Technology Entrepreneur Center and the College of Engineering would like to send up to 25 students to Silicon Valley during the winter break for a one-week technology entrepreneurship workshop and visits with startups and leading technology companies.  The trip is slated for January 8-13, 2012.

The workshop and lecture sessions will focus on innovation, technology entrepreneurship and leadership, and will feature corporate leaders, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.  Students will also have several opportunities to network with prominent entrepreneurial Illinois alumni.

The program aspires to expose students to many facets of technology entrepreneurship, with firms in various stages of a startup lifecycle, and to continue to build an entrepreneurial community at Illinois.  We invite Illinois undergraduate and graduate students to submite applications to attend this workshop.  For full consideration, application materials must be received by 5:00pm on October 7, 2011.

The cost to students to attend the workshop is to be determined.

Applicants will be notified of their status by 5:00pm on November 1, 2011.

Interested?  Apply here by 5:00pm on October 7th: http://tec.illinois.edu/silicon-valley-workshop