Okay, we are recording. All right. Do you want to pop over to the next slide, Sam? Yeah. Okay. So first off, just a little intro for us. I'm Kay Lewis. I'm one of the Career Development Associates here at Arts and Sciences Career Development. I basically do a little bit of everything. I don't have any specific major that I work with. I'm a generalist. So I work with folks who are exploring majors, exploring their interests, all the way up to, you know, exactly what you want to do. And we can start to plan to get you some experiences to get there or helping with grad school or anything like that. So I kind of do a little bit of everything related to career. And I've been here about two years now. I'm Sam Stafford. I use she/her pronouns. I am a Program Coordinator for the Arts and Sciences Career Development office. So I do all the behind the scenes work when it comes to building the application, making sure runs smoothly and other things, marketing, communications, work in the arts and sciences office. I've only been at Cornell for three months. I blame this on the reason why you've heard the banter early. But it's good, I'm glad you're all here and I'm excited to talk about the summer experience grant with you all. So we are going to actually turn our videos off so that we're not distracting. If you do have questions as we go, please put them in the Q&A box. That way we can only monitor one place. We are going to answer some questions as we go, if it's really relevant to the slide, but we actually have a lot of things that we're going to talk about today. So we probably will save a lot of that Q&A until the end, because we might be answering that throughout the process. So I am going to mute my video. All right. Sam, you want to take it away? So we're kinda gonna, here's what we're going to go over. I see there's already a question and answer in the box, and we'll go over that. I promise. But the overview of the experience, what the application process is and how the money gets dispersed, and student contribution. And then again, time for questions at the end. Kay, do you have anything to add to this? No. I think that's good. We'll move through. So the summer experience grant. There's two ways. If you are an arts and science, if you're not an Arts and Sciences student, we get your funding from the Student Assembly. And so all students are eligible for that grant up to, and you can ask up to 3 thousand dollars. For arts and sciences students, We have other grants that are funded through our college. And so we have over, you can ask for 5 thousand dollars. There's even some special exceptions. You can ask for more money if you are in university housing or if you have high need. So if you're an Arts and Sciences student, you can ask for a little bit more. And If you're not an Arts and Sciences student, the limit is 3000 dollars. We also work with CALS and ILR. So even if you might not be necessarily eligible for the Student Assembly, we offer, we offer funds. They have specific funding as well. So we just were using like one process to kind of release this money for the summer experience. Yeah. You don't need to know which one you're applying for. Exactly. All students are eligible for some of the funds, and we have some smaller amounts of money and some amazing donors who have helped out in funding these experiences. So you just need to know that you need to apply to one thing. If you are not an arts and sciences student. It's 3 thousand. If you are an arts and sciences student, you can ask for up to 5 thousand. Yeah, and I do want to note, we crossed out the Cornell in Hollywood because at the moment, that program is not running. Sorry if you hear children in the background, I have them. They're outside. The Cornell in Hollywood, ff we do hear word, that for some reason that is going to start up again, we'll consider it. But for right now we are not considering that funding. Just want to let you know that. So the eligibility for I think someone popped this in and it was answered, but yes. Any student, undergraduate student, if you're currently enrolled and you plan to be back here in the fall semester. So even if you are a first semester senior, and you plan to enroll in the fall, you are eligible. You have to be in good standing. You must be returning to Cornell for at least a semester. So if you're graduating unfortunately, you're leaving us after the semester, unfortunately do not. Or you're not eligible. And then we're looking for any career-related experience. As long as it is at least four weeks in length and you have at least 15 hours a week, and it's unpaid or minimally paid. So I think someone asked about a paid research position. I think that there's, we're going to talk a little bit about the budget. But basically if you are making less money than it costs to live, this is kind of where the eligibility lies. You, someone asked about Cornell in Washington. It is not eligible for Cornell in Washington. So in minimally pay just to let you all know, that's usually like if you're making minimum wage and if you really are unsure what eligibility, if you go onto the website, there is a tool that kind of can walk you through whether you're eligible. It's just a qualtrics form, and that, that can kind of give you a little bit more information before you actually put the time into the application. And we'll get to a lot of these questions too as we go. Yeah. So Sam, Let's go to the next slide. So just a few other things around eligible experiences. So yeah, that needs to be a career-related experience. And one of the reasons we wanted to highlight that is that this doesn't have to be a formal internship. It can be longer-term volunteering opportunity. Again, it can be a research position. As long as that research assistant is experience, is supervised by a principal investigator or faculty members. You can't be doing any of your own personal research with this funding, it needs to be supervised research. If you're going to be doing volunteering, We also need that to be supervised. So somebody that you're going to be able to check in with because these are really opportunities for you to grow and build your skills. So we want to make sure you have that support there for yourself. As you're going through that experience. Remote experiences do count for this. And we will talk a little bit more about what's covered in terms of remote programs as we get down to the budget. But remote experiences are perfectly qualified to be doing here. As long as again, they are supervised. And the research should be supervised and not for credit. Alright, next slide. Let's talk a little bit about ineligible experiences. We did talk about Cornell in Washington already, but we are not able to support any fee-based program. So sometimes you're going to find programs, Oftentimes these are international programs. You have to pay a fee and they will set you up to go abroad and get all your paperwork in order and things like that. We're not actually able to support any international programs right now because of Cornell's travel policies due to COVID. That's something that will probably change again as we are able to move around a little bit more. But we still cannot support any private fee-based programs. Any college programs that charge tuition are also out. So things like Cornell in Washington, global health minor programs. The only exception in past years has been Cornell in Hollywood, though there aren't any experiences available right now for that particular program. If you are paying tuition or doing any coursework, we cannot support that either. So this is not to take a class at a different college or anything like that. Or if you're taking classes over the summer, those types of experiences are not eligible. Personal projects, research projects, starting your own business, any entrepreneurial ventures are not able to be funded by this. And working for another student is also not something that will be funded. Folks, I did want to say for international travel, if you are an international student that is currently living in your home country and doing an experience there that is eligible. It's more about you as a domestic student traveling international to do something where the eligibility is not, you're not able to be eligible. So I did want to make that clear to folks who might be international students that are currently in their home country, they're looking for funding. Okay, Thanks. No problem. Okay. Let's talk a little bit about eligible expenses and Stacy, I think this will hopefully answer your question as well. So when we're talking about eligible expenses, this fund is not there to be able to help kind of pay your salary for the summer. Our goal is to help you break even. So when we are talking about things that are covered, we're not going to be able to like pay you an hourly wage. We will cover relocation travel. So if you have to take a bus or drive somewhere, we can cover some of that cost. Housing. So if you're living away from home, we can pay for your apartment, utilities that go along with that. So heat, electric, internet, cell phone bill if you need it, those are some things that we could be covering for the summer. Your daily transportation. And we're going to get into these a little bit more and break them down, parking, food if you're away from home. You know, we know that times have been difficult right now as well. So if you are home and have the need to be paying for your food for the summer because the folks who generally pay those bills are not expecting that extra mouth. That's something that you could be you could be asking for as well. So even if you are home, if you have some other extenuating circumstances, we are happy to accommodate that. Incidentals, laundry, dry cleaning, those kinds of things. Those are the things that we'll cover. You are also able to ask for money for clothing. So this is professional clothing. So lab coats, suits, those kinds of things, things that you're going to need for the actual experience. We will not buy you fun clothes for play. That's up to you. But we will buy clothes, we will help you purchase clothes for work. Some things that are not covered. Some of your own personal bill. So car payments or car insurance, gym membership, credit card bills, any of those kinds of things are things that we will not be able to cover. Internet, yes. Tv, Netflix, Hulu: no. So just a few things, breaking it down. Alright, let's check out the next slide. Sam, I'm giving it over to you. Next, we're gonna talk a little bit about the application and what to prepare for. So it's not, there's a lot to it, but it shouldn't take terrible amount of time if you have everything prepared. And so we have an application form. It's on Experience Cornell. I'll show you that in a minute. Basically the things that you'll need to have before you start is a resume. Make sure that you take your name off the resume. One thing that we do is we read, we read applications in a blind process. So we want to try to take out all the things that we might know about a student beforehand. So that's why we asked you to redact your name from that particular document. We do need the employer some kind of form of employer confirmation. So if you've got an offer via e-mail from the employer, will ask you to print, or not print that, but save it as a PDF and attach that to the form. Um, you don't need it, You don't need to confirm it as like you're taking it, but if you have a confirmation, you need a confirmation that you're doing something to apply to the grant. If you get financial aid, we need you to send your financial aid summary. And what we're gonna do that this year through secure file transfer, which is a site on Cornell that you can transfer things that are highly sensitive in a secure way. And then there's also a budget form and for those who have applied in the past, it does look different because we built this form all within the Experience site. And so the budget form is not an attachment this year. It's actually part of the form. And then there's some other things that if you do get accepted, we'll ask of you to confirm. So I mentioned this is all on the experience site. So if you got to experiencecornell.edu, you can look for the summer experience grant or search for it. And you'll see this page. And it gives you kind of the overview of some of the information we're talking about now. And then at the bottom of the page there's a apply here button. That's where you go to actually apply. There's a link for it on our website. So that's kind of where you land for that. And then when you click on the Apply here, you'll see this page. The term is summer 2021 because that's when you're actually doing the experience. You're doing it in the summer time. And that's how we kind of, that's how we tell the system when this is actually happening. So you kind of start and then it goes through like seven different pages of information. And so the first page of information that you'll need is basically everything you need to know about your experience. So where is it located? Who's your supervisor? What's your supervisor's contact information? And it's really important because because we're doing this in Salesforce and drew a form where it's going to automate some things for us when we say that, if you approve that, we can then send an email right to the supervisor through this system. We're looking for a position title. So that's a good thing to know. Like you're the marketing intern or your the research intern, whatever it is. And if you're unsure, make sure you ask your supervisor, but that's something that should be right in your confirmation email. We need to start date, end date, the length in the number of weeks, and how many days a week it is, and how many hours you're going to be doing it. We're also going to ask you how your experience is going to be completed. I know for many of you you might not know. It might be hybrid, where you're going in person for some time, you're going remote, it might be all the way remote, they might be unsure. There's even a question of if you're unsure. So if it's unsure, just state what you do know and there'll be an opportunity for you to explain this. We're going to ask if you're doing research and what type of research it is, and whether you're working for a graduate student and a principal investigator, a professor. If you're doing any of the special programs, we're going to ask those details if this is a research experience. We are going to ask, we want to know the address of the experience. And so I think that I think went ahead and answered that, but yes, we will need to know that. I think that comes into play when we're thinking about budget and if it's in-person because that helps us deal with some of that. If you're getting transportation. Yeah. We can move on to the essay questions next. You know, you are going to be asked some essay questions. So this is going to be your chance to tell us a little bit more about yourself and why you chose this experience. And we really want to make sure that you are taking some time and thinking about these things and giving some thorough answers that helps us in our decision-making process when we are trying to decide if this is going to be a beneficial experience for the student. So make sure you do take some time to fill these out. And I usually recommend you can go in and look at these questions ahead of time and even type them up in Word and then transfer them in so that you don't have to worry as much about trying to type it all into the box. So we're going to ask you what your career goals are and how this experience fits within those goals. And if your career goals are unclear, you are still questioning that's okay. Tell us that too, and tell us why you want this particular experience to help you explore that. We do want to know what your responsibilities are going to be. And really think about what you're hoping to learn from this experience. But give you a few suggestions about things that you might want to think about. But tell us what are you hoping to learn? What skills, what kind of professionalism? Give us a little bit more information on that. And Sam, Could you go to the next slide? A few tips for answering these questions. Please be thorough when you're answering the essay prompts, the details do matter. So we want to know your story. We want you to make your case for why you did decide to choose this position, this particular experience. So if it's not your first choice, that's okay. Tell us why you want this one. Think about the transferable skills that you're going to build. We're going to talk a little bit later about financial need, but we do want to make sure that you are explaining your financial need in that section as well. And we'll show you what we mean by boxes. And pre-write your answers in Word. Make sure to edit. All right? Yep, Sorry, someone asked about the character limit or the max for the essay, it's 1500 character, 1500 max character limit. And they're each separate, You should easily be able to fill that. Yeah. Make it within that amount. So let's talk a little bit about the funding and financial aid information that you're going to need. So we are going to ask you if you've applied to anything, any other summer funding sources. There are other grants that you might have applied for on-campus and we do need to know what those might be. We're going to ask you about additional factors affecting your need and you can, if there are additional factors you're going to want to select Yes, to tell us about those additional factors if you have them. So once you click Yes, you're gonna get some boxes that come up and then you can check those boxes. Things like, are you expected to contribute to your summer expenses? And some questions about what that looks like. Are you expected to contribute to next academic year expenses? What does that look like? Do you have any finance impacting life events? Any of those kinds of things would fall under that. So if you feel like you have some additional financial need, please mark that as yes. And then you can give us a little bit more information. When you're describing your circumstances to us, really do make sure you tell us about kind of your story. We only know what you tell us and so we want to make sure that we are funding folks the amount of money that they might need. And so we want to know what are those things that are affecting your financial needs and so that we can have a thorough view of what you are looking for. Sorry. Other, let's see examples of factors affecting their financial aid. I think I just did talk about those. So if there are things that have happened within your family, maybe somebody lost a job. If you have a family member who got sick, that might be affecting your financial need. Or if you have a family member who is about to start attending college as well, that may affect your financial need. So just give us some information about what kind of is going on with you. Alright, next, slide Sam. So this is going to be what it looks like once you have selected, yes. So are you, for instance, here, are you expected to contribute to the academic your expenses? If you say yes, it's going to ask you a little bit more. Are you expected to contribute to rent, utilities, food? What are those things that you are going to be need to be paying for yourself or are you just you're covered with rent and food but you're going to be needing to cover your own transportation, entertainment. So you're going to have these drop-down boxes. You can just make some check marks and let us know what are those things that you will be contributing yourself. So make sure that you mark all that apply and make sure in some of those other boxes that you are being thorough when you share a little bit more about your experience. And tell us too, one of the questions is What would you do if you were not awarded this funding? We want to know what would you do? Would you take out loans? Is there's somebody else who might be able to fund it. Is there some other way that you could do this or could you not do it at all? So just give us a little bit more information on that. Okay. Next, slide? Yes. I did want to show you a little bit about uploading your financial aid summary or sending your financial aid summary. So we are going to ask that you download your summary and that you send it to us. But we want to make sure that you're doing it on a secure site. So that's that FFT dot cornell.edu. And I have a few slides, Sam if you want to hit the next one, I'll show you what this looks like. So when you go onto that website, you're going to click on the Cornell netID login. And then on the box below you're going to see that prepare upload icon. So that's what we want you to click on. And then Sam? Yep. And that's where you're going to put Sam's email in. My email, Yes. So that you can have this sent securely. We do that for safety, we don't want your information getting out and this is the secure way that you can send it to us. Yes. So that allows me to log in and pull your information and save it where I need to, via, as opposed to you just send it directly to my email. Right. So we do have a question from Stacy around addresses, so I wanted to go back to that for just a second, if we're doing a remote experience, Do we enter our home address or the address of the organization? Sam, I know that we have the address of the organization, but are they entering both? Yes. So in that first page that we showed, you enter the address of the organization so we know where the or wherever it's headquartered, even if you're doing it remotely, you gotta put that address there. I'm going to the budget slide and the budget section. We will ask you where home is to get a better sense of where you're actually residing when you are in, while you're doing your remote experience. So you could see that the perfect segue into this page of what we consider for the budget. In one of the first questions we asked is where do you plan on residing the summer during the course of your experience, and how you decided that. For the budget, basically anything, we kind of went over eligibility. But if you are doing an in-person experience, we will pay for travel to and from that experience location, um, but do note that that is just if you are in person or doing a hybrid experience. That is not if you are doing a remote experience and same with the daily transportation, will we will pay for daily transportation whether you're driving to this experience that's in-person or in hybrid, or you're taking the bus, whatever that mode of transportation is. And we just need you to know that expense. And same for living expenses and professional clothing. Those are for whether it's hybrid or not. We've already been over the non-eligible expenses. One thing to know is like you need to keep track of all the expenses you have. So that's important as you think about that, we will ask for you to report back what you spend on most of the big items. So if you are buying a plane ticket, if you're paying for rent, if you're paying for some big things, we don't need to know your grocery bill, but you will need to kind of show us what you spent your money on. One thing to note here, we will, if you are doing a remote experience, but want to choose to stay in your apartment in Ithaca. That is something we will consider. And so that's kinda why we have that whole Where are you residing and why you came to that decision? And if you're looking for like kind of estimates on costs, there's going to be a couple resources. There's a budget form expense guide. So we kind of have a bunch of research we did on different cities and what costs of things are. It's not on the website, but we're going to get that up on the website soon, but there's also a link to it once you're in the application. I did want to say here too, for housing. You're choosing, if you're an Arts and Sciences student and you're choosing to live in university housing. We will consider that expense because we only budget, we only allow you to ask for I think it's 1200 a month. Yeah. It depends on the city. Up to $1200 a month for rent, depending on the city. Um, so if you are in New York and want to live in one of those university settings. It's more than that. We will consider it this year. One thing that I just wanted to clarify too, Sam, housing, you know, if you're remote and you want to stay in Ithaca, I think some things to consider. If you're going to be doing remote, you're welcome to go home. If home is not a place that's very helpful in terms of actually getting things done. So maybe you don't have great Internet or not a lot of privacy. Any of those things. Please make sure that you are doing a remote position and you're asking to be funded to stay somewhere that is not home, We just want to know why. So make sure that you explain that and we won't, If you just want to go live in Boston for the heck of it and your experience is remote and your hometown is not Boston and, you know, we're not going to just pay for you to go somewhere for fun. So just thinking about when we're talking about the reasons behind that. Yeah. I think that's where you're like, You can't take advantage of this, but we will consider certain situations. So I think we talked a little bit about travel, but again, like if the oh, sorry, the amount isn't anything more than $1500 a month. Just want to make sure that's stated but that's stated right on the application as well. For the other expenses is again, travel and daily transportation if you are an in-person or hybrid experience. We do allow for personal expenses and that I think goes either way, whether you're in a remote expense or not. So those kinds of expenses include a $100 a week, up to a $100 a week for food, laundry, dry cleaning and a cell phone bill. So there's a max for the food you can't do over a $100 a week, but you can also ask for things that you would have to do on a regular basis. Um, clothes Again, I think Kay went over this in the beginning, but we will pay for professional clothing. So if you need a lab coat or if you need scrubs or if you need a suit. Again, put the anticipated expense. And that was something that we can cover. We also have a kind of catch-all things in an other category. One thing we thought if there's a certain software you might need to be able to perform to your best capabilities. That would be a good example. What might go in the other category. And as always, please make sure you explain what the cost of these things are in your explanation. For example, if rent is $500 a month and you have a three month experience, you would say it's 1500 dollars total, but it's $500 a month. Just so, and you should be doing that in everything. So if you asked in your personal expenses for food and laundry expenses, you can say, I'm gonna need food for this many weeks at a $100 a week. And I need laundry that cost $10 a week. And you put that in the explanation, but you put the total amount in that, the anticipated need. What this form will allow you to do at the bottom of the form, it will total all your expenses for you, so you don't need to calculate that. But if you fill out the form correctly, it will do that. If you don't anticipate any expenses in those areas, you just put 0. One thing to think about too, Ian, I saw that you're asking about what should you put for the budget if you're not sure what the rent will be, do a little bit of looking in that area and see what the average price of the rent is. And we will, ask for about that much. We've got some really good resources put together that can help you find places to live. Some folks do things like Facebook marketplace in the area. There are some sublet Facebook pages connected to different universities that can sometimes be helpful to look at, Craigslist, things like that. But do your due diligence when you're looking for some of these experiences. If you're struggling to find anything, let us know, we can help. And if you're looking at something that seems kind of sketchy, don't go for it. If they're asking for all the money upfront. You've never met the person and you've never seen it, come talk to us before you do any of that. But for the most part, a lot of our students will look in those areas. Some cities also do, if the universities in those cities offer intern housing so you can actually stay there over the summer. Like Sam said, those are a little bit more expensive. And so that is something that you could ask for and we could talk about it and negotiate to see if that's something that could work for you. Some of those are not happening because of COVID, but a lot of them still are. So it's worth it to take a look at those. So but there is also an income section. So we're going to ask about your also your anticipated income for the summer. Again, this will help us calculate what you actually end up asking for, it's going to total it all for you. So I think someone asked if this is a paid research experience. You might be getting a stipend, but maybe you're only working you're working like 10 weeks, but you're only getting a certain amount of money or you're only getting an amount to cover the cost of food but not the rent. So if you are, if you're getting a stipend for whatever experience or an hourly rate for your experience, you do need to tell us that. That's where you do it on the income section. We also are going to ask you if you're working a summer job. So say you still working that nine to five internship, but you go and scoop ice cream at night. We want to know whether you're doing that or not in the explanation of that and how much you're receiving. Again, if you're getting a grant from any other program at Cornell or otherwise, I think you need to list that here. And whether your family is going to contribute to any of your funds over the summer and you have the explanation there. And then what that will do is anything that you have in this amount will take what you had given in the expense amount and it will total the actual amount of money that you're going to ask in this application. Some of the additional grants There is Cornell specific ones and I think at one point we ask that in the financial aid section. We do ask you to just do the take-home pay. And so there is a link to how to assess how much that is website. So basically how much tax would be taken out of your paycheck? Um, so do that before you enter that amount. And you can do you can write that out in your explanation of income because we don't want you to be, we want we want to fund you the money that you need and so we want to make sure that those taxes that are coming out, we are not thinking that you're going to be getting that money. Yeah. So just a reminder and kinda to cap this off. Be specific. Any information you can give, the better it helps us when we're reviewing, again, show your calculations. It just needs to be as simple as what's listed here. You have a sublet through $500 a month for three months. So therefore it's $1500. But we need to know that monthly or whatever the weekly cost is to your housing or your expenses. Again, the hourly wage. How much, you know, estimate how much your professional clothing is. Again, we aren't going to fund you for an Armani suit, but if you need to go and get a reasonably priced suit somewhere we'll make sure to get you funded for that. Make sure that, make sure to be honest with the income and the budget. The other category is really, you really do need to explain why. So just be mindful of that as you're filling this out. I do have a question from someone. Why does us working an extra job factor into the budget? Basically, we really just want to know how much money you are bringing in and we want to know what your need is so that way we can balance out. We're not necessarily expecting that anybody works a second job in addition to this. So that's just something that you can have as additional information in that section. You could also tell us, I am working the extra job, but I'm hoping to save that money for my student contribution for next year. Just give us the information on everything that you're going to be doing. Yeah. And that's actually a good point. So you can put that amount, it might total the right way, but in that explanation, if you put that we're going to look at those calculations either way when we're reviewing this. Do you need any additional yeah, sorry, this additional selection. Just give us any other information that's going to be helpful for us to make a decision. We just want to know anything pertinent or relevant that would help us to make a decision about whether this is a qualified experience and how much money you need. Lastly, In this things, yeah. Yes. So these are the other two things you're going to be needing to upload, so you should have them prepared. We are going to have you upload your resume. We do want you to take your name off of the resume. We do blind reads for these so that we are not biased at all about knowing who a student is. And so we want to make sure that your name is not on there. And then we're also going to need you to upload your experience confirmation. And so that can be the email that was sent to you, a screenshot of the email, but we want you to upload that. It's okay if your name is on that one, that one is not going to be given to the reading committee for decision-making. That's just more for our back-end confirmation. And lastly, you're gonna electronically sign so just type your name, but since it's single-sign-on, you know, you're basically agreeing that this is all truth, don't lie, we'll be honest that people have lied on this before. They've put that they're going to receive not, you know, no information or no money, but then when we confirm with the supervisor, they do. Like really we're here to help you, we have these funds People have donated money for the arts and sciences to make students be able to get these fantastic experiences. Just be honest with us. And so don't lie and that's why you're signing this. So there, I already showed you this, but I there is throughout the application, there is the common expense form. So someone asked, like, I don't not sure about how much rent will cost. This has some places that you can look for how to estimate rent cost. There's the tax calculator. You can go to the cost of living calculator if you're going to a city that you've never been to, you just type cost of living in LA, for example. And that gives you kinda those daily breakdowns or I think there's other ways you can do that. And I will, these are again on the Arts and Sciences website, but we'll make sure to get those to you and put them also on the experience site so you have them before you actually go into the application. And then here's the timeline. So the big thing is that on April 19th is the priority deadline for the award. So we're hoping that everybody should know that about your experience by then, and use that as the priority deadline. We will say that for arts and sciences students, we do have a rolling deadline. But basically if you know you have an experience, we encourage you to apply because it's based on the funds that we have. But all others, the hard deadline is April 19th. And to let you know that it takes us a few weeks to review all of these. Um, so you might not hear from us until mid May, especially if you're planning to apply in the next couple weeks. But, we're going to try to start rolling it as we get in, but just know that our timeline is shooting for mid-May to at least let you know where you stand. And in that time period, we're going to try to make sure that you, like at least let you know we're thinking about it. We need you to confirm your experience with your employer. And then by mid June is hopefully when we will disperse the funds. This is kind of a better overview of what happens. We tentatively accept you for the award, saying we think you should be, you should get this money, but we need to hear from your supervisor and that's why it's really important to put the supervisor's name and email in your application, the correct one, if it changes for whatever reason, just email as_careers@cornell.edu as_careers@cornell.edu to let us know, but we need that information in order to send the employer a verification form. That will be sent out at the same time you get the notification that you got this tentative acceptance. And as soon as they get that back to us, we can confirm your experience and we'll send you a contract. So you sign a contract agreeing that you're going to get these funds, that you agree to, like provide receipts. Um, everybody that does one of these, we ask you to do a reflection. So it's much more than just getting funds put into your account. We're going to ask for some follow up after the fact. And then you sign the contract. Once the contract is signed, that's when we get, we go and tell financial aid, please put the money in the account and this can take a few weeks, so just know that it's not going to, it's not an automatic thing. It's not like going to my bank and saying can you transfer these funds from this to this. It's not that quick. I wish it would be, but it's not. So and we do say that if you haven't set up with financial aid, direct deposit into your account, you should do that so that you get your funds even quicker. So it just goes right into your bank account. Again, maintain documentation. If you're paying, we're helping you pay for housing, relocation costs, daily transportation and clothes, Please keep your receipt. We do not need you to keep your receipts for any of your food, but for those big expenses, we are expecting that and you'll take a photo of those and upload those when you do your reflection. And then again, we expect before even after by September 7th, you need to submit a reflection survey and a photo of your experience and your employer is going to complete something as well. Like after you apply, this is what happens. Yeah, I wanted to highlight one thing to when you are thinking about getting this in, I would say the minute you know that you have an experience, you don't have to have accepted it yet either. As long as you have that offer, for that experience, start applying, get your application in right away, the faster you move through this process, the sooner we can get those funds to you. There was a question about how the funds are doled out. It is a one time disbursement. So the reason we want you to do so much budgeting at the beginning is because we can only send that money to you once. So you will get it in a lump sum at the beginning of the summer. And you're going to have to budget yourself for the rest of that time. So do make sure that you're going in as soon as you have that experience and applying. Because we want to get this rolling as quickly as possible. So the quicker you get through it, the sooner we can get you the money so that you can use it for your summer. Yeah. I will say someone asked about the acceptance rate in how many students receive the grant. I will say that just knowing how much money we have in Arts vs what's in the student assembly, Arts and Sciences students will probably get funded at a higher rate than students in other colleges just based on the funding. But ILR also has a number of awards, CALS has a number of awards. So and then we have the Student Assembly. So just giving you a kind of a perspective of we don't, I don't think we have an actual rate of acceptance, but we do have a lot of funds in arts and sciences. So we're really heavily encouraging our arts and sciences students to apply for this, whether you think you qualify or not. Just make sure that you're being thorough. That's going to help us, again, especially for colleges that are maybe not going to be able to fund as many students. Make sure that you're really thorough, make sure that you really share your needs so that we can know that as we're making decisions. I want to talk about quickly about student contribution and then we're going to jump into the questions. So student contribution funding, this is for Arts and Sciences students. We've had a few awesome alumni and donors who, who have funded this. But in Arts and Sciences, you can apply for student contribution funding. That application is not up yet and it is separate from the summer experience grant. This fund is there for folks who have had an unpaid or underpaid experience who need money for the next academic, so for fall, to be paying for things like housing and books and things like that. So that student contribution amount that you get in your financial aid award that they recommend that you save. You can apply for that as an arts and sciences students. If you are not able to save that money throughout the summer. Again, because we really want you to have that really good summer experience even if it's not paid. This one is a little bit more competitive and is very needs-based. So this will go to the highest need students first. So the summer experience grant is a separate application. So just keep an eye out for this one if that is something that you're interested in. Next, we'll have questions. If you all wanna just drop those in the Q&A. I found one. I think Diane answered it already, but we had someone ask about if I'm taking an Uber to work every day, do I have to save every receipt? So I have two things to say about that. I would say one thing is there are probably less expensive ways for you to get to work than Uber. So we are going to be funding the, the most cost effective way to get there. If you need an Uber, we're going to need an explanation as to why that is. A lot of times there are money saving things that you could be doing as well. So, you know, maybe you're going to buy a monthly bus/train/whatever pass as opposed to a daily pass. What we're going to want is receipts from if you buy a monthly pass for the subway. We're going to want that. We want receipts for rent, some of those bigger expenses. Like Sam said, we don't need every time you went grocery shopping or anything like that. We're going to just believe that you spend it the way you want to spend it. If you decide to eat out every day and they're only funds you for a couple days. That's your prerogative. But we just want to be saving the bigger expenses. But also thinking about what are going to be the most cost effective ways for you to be putting. Question, the Cornell traveling policy, it looks like Diane's answering that. If for whatever reason In the next couple of months they change, I think we'll just update the website. I'm not anticipating that. Yeah. I know. Like study abroad and things like that are open for the fall but not for the summer. So if that does open for the summer, that's something that we would then be able to fund, but at this point we are not able to. Yeah. We do have a question about Awards other any chance the information about awards with other colleges will be provided as well. I am unsure of what you mean by that. Yeah. I don't know if you're looking for an amount or, I know in ILR, if you go to ILR's website It will show you the different awards they have. I think CALs, it's only one particular award. I can't remember what it was called off the tip of my head, but if you have any of those questions, maybe email us and we can see if we can find some information for you. Yeah. He did have another question about what's the acceptance rate? We don't necessarily have an acceptance rate. We accept folks until the money runs out. Depends on how many people apply, how much money they're asking for. How much money we have. A lot of people a lot of people are asking for less money at this point because with the remote experience, there are less things that folks would need to pay for even if they're maybe needing to pay for rent. So maybe we'll be able to fund more people. So there's not an actual number for that. We will fund as many people as we can. And I did have someone I saw a question pop up earlier and I think Diane answered it, but I wanted to make sure others saw that too. There's a question about if you are generally paying, helping your family pay rent. Is that something that you can ask for? Tell us about that in your need. So if there are things that you are currently doing to support your family, make sure that you do tell us that because we want to get a whole picture of that so that we know how much we can fund you and how much you really need. I don't know about the design your internship funding. I guess I'm not familiar with that, what that is. Kay do you know what that is or Diane? I can jump in here. I wasn't actually let me pull this around to my right thing. I didn't have the answer to it. So I'm not looking off to the side. So the design your own internship program. It's a it's a joint venture that works with student employment, financial aid, and Cornell career services. And it's basically there if you already have work study funding and the employer is willing to pay you minimum wage, And part of that, that minimum wage can be reimbursed back to the employer. So it's like it's like a 50 percent. It's some sort of percentage that Cornell will reimburse the employer for hiring you. So there's a fair number of stipulations. It's a great program. It's been around for years. It's been around, I think the entire time, the entire 30 years I've been working in Cornell career services. So it's been around for a long time. Certainly if you are in a position where you are, you can get like work-study funding during the summer and, uh, or you're currently on work-study funding and you are in a position, a summer position where it is paying minimum wage. Then certainly look at DYO because it is also a great option. And then if for some reason the DYO isn't handling things enough, like you're still finding that you, that you're missing, like that, minimum wage just isn't going to cover it because we all know minimum wage is not really going to be supporting you to be able to live and meet all your bills, then that's where we can supplement that funding. And certainly we do, with the summer experience grant There are many cases where we're supplementing, we're complementing funding other funding that students may have received from other, from other sources on campus. So just because you get a little bit of money from a certain place, doesn't mean that you're absolutely not going to be able to get anything from SEG. So I hope that makes sense. Thank you, Diane. I appreciate that. Someone asked about a food budget for living in Ithaca. Again, I think this just depends on where you get your food from and if you cook for yourself, we know that the max amount for food is a $100 a week. But I certainly think as a college student, going to Wegmans, if you cook most of your meals yourself, you probably could do less than that. But yeah, you can ask for up to 100. Keep in mind, say if you are living here in Ithaca, that keep in mind, ask for, figure in that summer TCAT bus pass if you don't have a car or a bike. Yeah. You should get yourself to Wegmans. Yeah, exactly. There isn't any grocery store close to campus, either way you're going to have to take a TCAT bus to get to a grocery store. So keep that in mind. Think about all the different things that kinda go into those cost-of-living. Yeah. There's a minimally paid experience, were you gonna go there Kay? Yeah. Yeah. So minimally paid. What does minimally paid mean? Julie was talking about how the online survey doesn't factor in a current stipend. So minimally paid basically what we mean is you're not making enough to cover the cost of living for the summer. I think that's the easiest way to think about it. You know, minimum wage again, doesn't always cover if you have a small stipend and it's not going to cover your expenses. That counts as a minimally paid experience. So just thinking about tabulating how much it's gonna cost if it's not covered, you're minimally paid. And we're not going to cover like a fancy loft experience, you know. This is not living your best life. I mean, you are, you're getting this this really awesome experience to work at potentially this cool thing that you wouldn't otherwise get. But yeah, we're not going to pay top-of-the-line things. Right. I know Diane's answering, but we do not support students doing their honors thesis through this grant. So you can't be working on your own research for your honors thesis. Proof of employment. Basically, if you get some kind of confirmation from the employer that you're working for via email that counts as proof. If you've signed some kind of document and if you want to provide that document that you've like whatever contract, that would count as proof. So basically something from the employer saying we accept you as our intern or we accept you for whatever experience that you're going to do. That's what we need you to like, save as a PDF and upload to us. And then as you do that, there's going to be some triggers that go out. So there will be another thing sent to your employer so they can fill out a different confirmation. But what we need is that upload of that email. I think that's the last of the questions. Can you apply for two different internships that you're doing in the summer during different time periods? Yes and no. So the experience that we're covering does need to meet those minimum qualifications of, what did we say, four weeks long, at least 15 hours a week. So as long as one of those is long enough, we can cover that. And you can tell us too, if you're going to be doing both, we're happy to look at that, but we at least need one of them to be that full supervised, longer-term experience. Yeah. asked about if the experience is remote can I still request rent? Yes. Like I said, we'll, if you again, if you have a situation where being at home but working remotely, is it going to be the best option, We will look into that, but we are going to be checking. We ask for the home address and the organization address. Again, we're not going to be paying for you to like, work remotely in Miami over the summer. If you, because you want to live in Miami. But if you want to, if you need to be in a different place and you're here in Ithaca, for example, working remotely. That's okay. And so just explain why. Why do yeah, why do you need to be there as opposed to somewhere up. Exactly. Explanation is the best way. Any other questions? All right. Well, we do want to wrap up. If you do have questions that we didn't get to and are very specific questions. Feel free to email as_careers@cornell.edu. I check that email daily, I can get back to you. You can go onto our website, go on the experience website, I'll update with those links tomorrow morning, um, so you have some access to those. You can also, Diane was on this call, She answered a few questions. She's happy to meet with anybody who has more specific questions about their experience. There's an option when you go to book an appointment on our website that talks about what areas specifically for summer funding. So click that and you'll set up a meeting with Diane and she's happy to meet with you. I also have drop-in hours every Wednesday afternoon from 2:30 to 3:30. Those are 15 minute appointments. A lot of times questions that are dealing with the summer experience grant can be handled pretty easily within 15 minutes. So that's also another option. Unfortunately, I've had my drop ins for this week but next week, we have time. But yeah, we're here to help you navigate this process. Yeah.