Program Dates: July 12-Aug 3, 2025
App Deadline: Dec 6, 2024
A free US-based summer exchange program for 15-17 year old girls from the US and around the world interested in STEM .
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Youth Ambassadors Algeria
Program Dates: Summer 2025
App Deadline: March 1, 2025
A free US-based, multi-city cultural exchange program between American and Algerian teens.
Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program
Program Dates: Summer 2025
App Deadline: Jan 7, 2025
US Department of Education sponsored overseas study programs to Uruguay & Peru and India for US K-12 educators.
Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program (IYLEP)
Program Dates: Summer 2025
App Deadline: Dec 9, 2024
A US State Department-funded leadership program for US and Iraqi teens to take place in Massachusetts, DC, and another US host city.
LearnServe Fellows Program
Program Dates: Oct 2024-April 2025
App Deadline: Rolling admissions
Dynamic afterschool program created to introduce social entrepreneurship to high school students from the DMV. Weekly Thursday meetings.
US Youth Ambassadors Program
Travel Dates: Summer 2025
App Deadline: Nov 11, 2024
Fully-funded summer exchange programs to countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean for US high school students and educators.
Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES Abroad) Program
Program Dates: 2025-26 School Year
App Deadline: Dec 4, 2024
Full scholarships to live and study for one academic year in countries with significant Muslim populations.
From Trauma to Transformation: Lessons of Reconciliation from the U.S.-Japan Context
Program Date: Nov 16, 2024, 6-8 pm
App Deadline: Sept 18, 2024
Virtual workshop for US & Japanese teachers on the lessons of post-World War II reconciliation.
Pulitzer Center 2024 Fall Teacher Fellowship
Program Dates: Oct-Dec 2024
App Deadline: Sept 8, 2024
Paid virtual fellowships for grade 4-12 teachers to explore ways to engage with underreported global news stories on health in the classroom.
Tanaka & Green Scholarship
Program Dates: SY2024-25
Application Deadline: July 31, 2024
Awards of up to $5,000 for short-term academic study (one semester or one school year) at a university in Japan. Preference to students from the DMV.