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.
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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.
Fund For Teachers
Program Dates: Summer 2025
App Deadline: Jan 23, 2025
Grants of up to $5,000 for individuals or $10,000 for teacher teams for self-designed summer learning experiences.
High School Diplomats
Program Dates: Jul 24-Aug 2, 2025
App Deadline: Jan 15, 2025
Fully funded 8-day academic and cultural exchange experience for high school students from the US and Japan.
Congress-Bundestag Vocational Youth Exchange Program
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.
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.