The Foreign Service Journal, September 2016

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 2016 83 ANNOUNC I NG THE AFSA NAT I ONAL H I GH SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WI NNER Dylan Borne 11th grade Benjamin Franklin Charter High School New Orleans, Louisiana Dylan will receive a $2,500 prize, an all-expenses- paid, two-day trip to Washington, D.C., to meet the Secretary of State and tour the U.S. Institute for Peace, and a full-tuition-paid voyage with Semester at Sea on his enrollment at an accredited university. Coverage of Dylan’s trip to Washington, D.C., will appear in a future issue of AFSA News. RUNNER - UP Whitney Zhang 11th grade Dr. T.J. Ownes Gilroy Early College Academy Gilroy, California Whitney will receive a $1,250 prize and a full schol- arship to participate in the International Diplomacy Program of the National Student Leadership Confer- ence held in Washington, D.C. annually. n NEWS BRIEF AFSA NEWS FEGL I OPEN SEASON I N SEPTEMBER The Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Program is having an Open Season from Sept. 1, through Sept. 30. This is the first FEGLI Open Season since 2004. Additional information on the open season can be found at: www.opm.gov/ healthcare-insurance/life-insurance/open-sea- son. A video about the Open Season can be found at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfO2x1Xc5uE&l. Additional information on FEGLI can be found at: www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/life- insurance/ n ANNOUNCEMENT