MOUSE Corps 2008-2009 Application

Welcome to the MOUSE Corps Application for 2008 - 2009 Candidacy!

MOUSE Corps is an advanced program for high school students looking to combine their tech-skills with big ideas that transform the world around them.  The goal of the MOUSE Corps is to build upon level-one MOUSE Squad skills by exposing students to advanced training and helping them gain experience by applying their talents to the world around them. With this elite Corps of peers, you too can experience the excitement of working in these challenging AND FUN environments where you will be set free to do some of the most rewarding work imaginable. Accepted Candidates will begin fulfilling requirements for their Corps Certification immediately, and continue candidacy until completion, for up to 3 years.

How MOUSE Corps Works:

  1. After acceptance to the program, you become a MOUSE Corps Candidate. 
  2. MOUSE Corps Candidates choose a Focus. (Peer Mentoring, Career, College, Advanced Skill Training.) Candidates are NOT required to participate in all elements, though you are encouraged to participate in as much as possible.  If you don't get to do something your first year, you can always participate in different areas in the following years.
  3. MOUSE Corps Candidates must earn a minimum of 10 Candidate hours through workshops and activities related to their  focus.  (A MOUSE Corps Focus is a lot like a career track or school major.)
  4. All MOUSE Corps Candidates are eligible to participate in seasonal activities like Internships and Corps Team Retreats.

MOUSE Corps has four key focus areas:

  1. Legacy Projects: 16-week design projects focused on improving communities through technology.
  2. Peer (p2p) Mentoring: Training and opportunities focused on students teaching students.
  3. College Experience: Workshops, college trips and education,
  4. Career Experience: Shadowships and Internships.
  5. Advanced Skills Education: Specific education

MOUSE Corps students have access to advanced training workshops on these topics:

  • Web and Graphics
  • Film and Media
  • Programming
  • And more...

MOUSE Corps candidates get ready for college and professional careers by:

  • Attending College Readiness Workshops
  • Shadowing professionals while they work
  • Interning at leading companies like Citigroup, Tekserve and DKNY.

MOUSE Corps candidates have the opportunity to meet fellow student technicians from schools across the city, attend select Corps-Building opportunities like paint ball excursions and six flags!

Don't just take our word for it.  Read what MOUSE Corps students past and present have to say:

The MOUSE Corps candidacy is a competitive opportunity.  Put your best foot forward on the application

Applications for MOUSE Corps Candidacy are accepted year round.  However, to participate in many of the program elements, you need to be apply and be accepted prior to any prerequisite workshops.

Click here for a list MOUSE Training and Events or contact J. Bussey at MOUSE for information on MOUSE Corps workshops, internships and events.  

Good Luck!

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Answer each Statement Questions below to the best of your ability:

Each MOUSE Corps Candidate pledges to uphold a series of core values. As a MOUSE Corps Candidate, you commit to:
* Community: using skills, creativity, and knowledge to create a positive impact locally and globally
* Growth: aspiring to constantly evolve and improve personally, professionally, and ideologically
* Team: growing ideas and actions collaboratively
* Leadership: contributing to the activities of MOUSE Corps, the community, and your greater professional environment in positive, productive, and meaningful ways

Choose one of the MOUSE Corps values above and tell a story in which you upheld or learned the importance of that value. (Responses should be approximately 500 words.)

Your MOUSE Corps Legacy is a 16-week culminating project that graduates your status from Corps Candidate to Corps Certification

MOUSE Corps candidates imagine, plan and create technological products that impact positive change for their local and/or global communities.

If you were to begin building your Legacy tomorrow, and were offered unlimited resources to design and implement a project that improves your global or local community describe the problem or "need" that it would improve and how it would work:

As a MOUSE Corps Candidate, you gain access to a wealth of opportunity to gain experience and grow as leaders in the community. Which of the following areas of the MOUSE Corps program are you most interested with:

You have the option of submitting a Personal Demonstration of your personality, skills or interests.

A Personal Demonstration can take any form. It can be a performance you've given, a paper you have written, a web site you have designed or programmed--anything you are proud of that represents you as an individual!

Personal Demonstrations are not required, but are enjoyed! Submitting one also greatly enhances your application to MOUSE Corps, a very competitive process.