Program Dates: 2025-26 School Year
App Deadline: Dec 2, 2024
A fully funded gap year in Germany for graduating high school students, which includes an internship with a German company.
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Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program
Program Dates: 2025-26 School Year
App Deadline: Nov 1, 2024
Students spend a full academic year abroad in Germany living with a host family and attending a German high school. Fully funded!
Future Leaders Exchange Abroad (FLEX Abroad)
Program Dates: 2025-26 School Year
App Deadline: Dec 4, 2024
Fully funded school year abroad for US high school students to live and go to school in Kazakhstan, Poland, or Romania.
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.
National Security Language Initiative for Youth
Program Dates: Summer 2025 and SY2025-26
App Deadline: Nov 4, 2024
Highly prestigious US State Department funded summer and school year programs to study critical languages abroad.
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.
Japan ICU Foundation Nelson Ranch Scholarship
App Deadline: Nov 1, 2024
A full four-year scholarship to attend International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan for an American student.
Local Letters for Global Change: A Pulitzer Center Writing Contest
Deadline: Nov 15, 2024
K-12 students are challenged to write letters to their elected representatives proposing solutions to global problems that matter to them.
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.