ARMENIAN-AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS TAKING PART IN TERJENIAN-THOMAS ASSEMBLY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IN WASHINGTON

ArmRadio.am
26.06.2006 12:00

Twenty Armenian-American college students, including two from Armenia,
are taking part in the Terjenian-Thomas Assembly Internship Program
in Washington, while 14 others are enrolled in a similar program in
Yerevan, Armenia. Both groups will intern in their respective cities
while taking part in a series of cultural, social and educational
activities.

They hail from some of the most competitive schools in the country
and are pursuing degrees in political science, law and medicine,
and for the next two months they will take their first steps towards
professional careers and community leaderships as participants of
the Assembly’s summer intern programs.

Washington program participants will work in the offices of Senators
Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Carl Levin (D-MI) and Representatives Frank
Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ed Royce (R-CA), Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Anthony
Weiner (D-NY), as well as federal government agencies, non-governmental
organizations (NGO), media outlets and think tanks. Yerevan interns
– the largest group in the program’s history – will intern with the
Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Finance, the OSCE, the Nork Marsh
Medical Center, as well as with other Armenian government institutions
and NGOs.

While in Yerevan, interns will learn more about their ancestral home
through visits to historical and cultural sites in and around Armenia
and Nagorno-Karabakh. In addition to their internships, students meet
senior government officials and other prominent individuals. They
also have opportunities to meet socially with local Armenians.