Teen Travel Network

Fellowships

Become an Arts & Letters Fellow or Honors Fellow this summer

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About Fellowships

At Teen Travel Network, students have the opportunity to add to their program experience by applying to be a TTN Honors Fellow or Arts & Letters Fellow.

Fellows complete pre-program coursework and a post-program final project, in addition to some on-program assignments that will support their final project upon their return home.

Fellowships are 100% optional and won’t impact the core Teen Travel Network program experience in anyway.

Instead, being an Arts & Letters Fellow or Honors Fellow allows creatively gifted or academically motivated students the unique opportunity to build on their program experience in a meaningful way, all while earning special merits that students can add to their future college applications and or write about in university application essays.

Teen Travel Network

Fellowship Applications are Due May 1st

Choose between being an Arts & Letters Fellow or Honors Fellow

Getting Started

If you’re interested in applying to be a TTN Honors Fellow or Arts & Letters Fellow, simply follow these steps:

  1. Select either the Honors Fellowship or Arts & Letters Fellowship
  2. Choose a concentration for your Fellowship
  3. Complete a brief online application (applying is free!)
  4. Upon receiving an acceptance letter by email, pay the $500 Fellowship Fee (this fee is 100% waived for Summer 2023, so you’ll pay nothing this year)
  5. Once this is all done, you’ll receive an email from our Fellowships Coordinator who will provide you with a curriculum packet that outlines all of the pre-program, on-program and post-program assignments associated with your Fellowship.

THE DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR A FELLOWSHIP IS MAY 1, 2023. BE SURE TO GET YOUR APPLICATION IN BEFORE THEN!

You must be enrolled in a Teen Travel Network summer program to participate in a Fellowship.

However, you are welcome to apply for a Fellowship first before you enroll in a TTN summer program to see if you are accepted as a Fellow first. If you are accepted, just remember you must enroll in a summer program to take part in the Fellowship experience!

Important Notes

Once you are accepted into the Fellowship and receive your curriculum packet, you will be able to review everything expected of you as a Fellow.

Please note that there is no hand-holding during your Fellowship. You are expected to take the initiative and complete all parts of the curriculum and final project on your own. You may ask questions to your Fellowship Coordinator, but for the most part, the curriculum packet will cover everything you need to know and do to successfully complete your Fellowship.

Pre-Program

You will be asked to complete some optional reading and/or viewing prior to departing for your travel program. This will help you frame the experience and provide context for your final project when you complete your program.

While the pre-program coursework is optional (you won’t be graded or anything), it is something we strongly recommend you do in order to make your Fellowship experience the most rewarding it can be!

On-Program

During the course of your travel program, you’ll be invited to do some assignment work in the field to help you prepare for your final project after you return home.

For Honors Fellows, this typically involves engaging with program staff, peers and folks you meet along the way to further your understanding of the concentration you selected. You are encouraged to journal as well, as this can help you pull ideas and experiences that you can draw from for your final Fellowship project.

For Arts & Letters Fellows, this usually involves doing some creative work during the course of your program. If you’re in the Photography concentration, you may want to take some photos that you’ll use toward your final project, for example.

Post-Program

The only part of your Fellowship that you’re scored on is your final project, which you’ll complete when you return home from your Teen Travel Network summer program.

For Honors Fellows, your final project will take the form of an essay where you’ll respond to one of several prompts related to the concentration you choose when you applied.

For Arts & Letters Fellows, your final project will take the form of a creative project where you’ll be inspired to create something meaningful, be it a story, a photo essay or a video.

FINAL PROJECTS ARE DUE TO THE FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE FOR REVIEW ANYTIME AFTER YOU RETURN HOME FROM PROGRAM, BUT NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 15, 2023.

Your Fellowship final project will be reviewed and scored by no later than December 15, 2023.

After that time, if you have been determined by our Fellowship Committee to have successfully completed all requirements within your final project, you’ll be named an Arts & Letters Fellow or Honors Fellow in good standing, and receive all the awards and merits listed below for your achievements!

Teen Travel Network

Fellowship Applications are Due May 1st

Choose between being an Arts & Letters Fellow or Honors Fellow

Awards & Merits

Students who successfully complete a Teen Travel Network Fellowship will earn the following merits and awards:

  • A Certificate of Achievement
  • A Custom Medal or Pin Honoring Your Achievement
  • A Letter of Recommendation from our Executive Director (upon request)
  • The title of Honors Fellow or Arts & Letters Fellow for your University Applications

CLICK HERE TO APPLY FOR A FELLOWSHIP BY MAY 1, 2023

Teen Travel Network

Fellowship Applications are Due May 1st

Choose between being an Arts & Letters Fellow or Honors Fellow

Honors Fellowship

Students who apply to be an Honors Fellow are typically high-achieving teens who wish to challenge themselves academically while earning merits that will help them on the road to competitive university applications and beyond.

Honors Fellows will be challenged to test their wits and their ideas as they contemplate major issues of the day before their program, apply critical thinking the places they travel to and the cultures they encounter on-program, and frame it all into a meaningful final essay that encapsulates the intellectual journey you had engaging with your Fellowship curriculum and your program experience.

If you are accepted as a TTN Honors Fellow this summer, you will complete a curriculum packet based on the concentration you choose.

There are four Honors Fellowship concentrations you can choose from:

  • Animal & Wildlife Conservation
  • Community Development
  • Environmental Stewardship
  • Public Health & Medicine

Once you return home from your travel program, you will complete a final project, which as an Honors Fellow comes in the form of an essay.

Your curriculum packet will explain everything you need to know to complete your pre-program assignments, your on-program material and your post-program final project.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY TO BE A TTN HONORS FELLOW

Teen Travel Network

Fellowship Applications are Due May 1st

Choose between being an Arts & Letters Fellow or Honors Fellow

Arts & Letters Fellowship

Students who apply to be an Arts & Letters Fellow are typically creatively-minded teens who wish to challenge themselves artistically in ways that open up new roads for them in college, career and beyond.

Arts & Letters Fellows will test their creative might be engaging with some thought-provoking reading or viewing before their program, some creative asset collection or prep work on-program (think writing, taking photos or shooting video), and put it all together in a creative final project when they return home.

If you are accepted as a TTN Arts & Letters Fellow this summer, you will complete a curriculum packet based on the concentration you choose.

There are three Honors Fellowship concentrations you can choose from:

  • Creative Writing
  • Photography
  • Videography
  • Fine Arts (Coming in 2024)

Once you return home from your travel program, you will complete a final project, which as an Arts & Letters Fellow comes in the form of a creative project.

Your curriculum packet will explain everything you need to know to complete your pre-program assignments, your on-program material and your post-program final project.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY TO BE A TTN ARTS & LETTERS FELLOW

Teen Travel Network

Fellowship Applications are Due May 1st

Choose between being an Arts & Letters Fellow or Honors Fellow