Program Dates: Summer 2017
App Deadline: January 10, 2017
Three-week service programs to Jamaica, Paraguay, and Zambia. Fee-based with scholarships.
Articles by: Sally Schwartz
Japanese Plus holds its first Open House
Last October 5th, twenty-three high school students from nine public schools across the city began attending Japanese classes offered through Globalize DC’s new Japanese Plus program. Six weeks later, in the Columbia Heights Education Campus library, the students found themselves in the intimidating position of presenting what they had learned to family, friends, and community partners. The challenge! Take everything they had learned so far – every phrase and even katakana characters – and create an original skit for presentation. The students worked in four groups and came up with four unique and crazy skits. The task took a lot […]
Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Abroad
Program Dates: 2017-18 School Year
App Deadline: Dec 1, 2016
Full scholarships to live and study for one academic year in countries with significant Muslim populations.
Operation Understanding DC (OUDC)
Program Dates: Jan – Dec 2017
App Deadline: Nov 28, 2016
A free year-long leadership program for black and Jewish high school juniors. Includes a 3-week summer travel program.
Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange
Program Dates: 2017-18 School Year
App Deadline: Dec 12, 2016
Offers US high school students the opportunity to live and study abroad in Germany for a full academic year. Fully funded.
Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching (DAT) Program
Travel Dates: 3-6 months during the 2017-18 School Year
App Deadline: December 1, 2016
An intensive PD program for 3-6 months abroad for highly accomplished US K-12 educators.
African Studies Association Teachers Workshop
Program Date: December 3, 2016, 8:30 – 12:45 pm
App Deadline: November 25, 2016
Held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the ASA. Registration fee of $25.
DCPS Study Abroad
Program Dates: Summer 2017
App Deadline: Nov 23, 2016
Fully funded international summer travel for eligible DCPS students (8th and 11th graders and C3 students) who have studied a world language.