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Caroline Gao participated in NSLI-Y's summer program in South Korea in 2021, as the world was slowly emerging from isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic . Her cohort was one of the first to return to in-person exchanges, though it required an extensive period of quarantining alone in a hotel room before stepping foot…

How Students Develop Global Competencies Through the Vision and Passion of Their Teachers

The longstanding Holiday Card Exchange project engages students to gain a deeper understanding of other countries’ cultures and traditions. Classes are grouped with approximately seven other classes in other countries to send cards that commemorate their local holidays and traditions between October and December,…

The iEARN 2021 Virtual Project Exhibition on January 28th was a great success and a vibrant celebration of global collaboration! The Virtual Project Exhibition (VPE) is a showcase of the work and outcomes of educators and students around the world who completed iEARN projects. This exciting event provides iEARN…

Using iEARN Projects like #GirlsRising, the Ramona Model UN found victory in the UNHCR Refugee Challenge! The team chose to address access to education for refugees as an extension of their iEARN Project "Be Kind, Don't Leave Them Behind." Click to read the entire article!

This year for #IEW2020, YES and iEARN students participated by submitting film projects that captured their fight in dismantling stereotypes in their home country and the U.S. Take a look!

Join us in encouraging high school students (ages to 15-18) to apply for a chance to engage in cultural immersion and a new language through the NSLI-Y and YES Abroad scholarship programs. Applications are now open for 2021-2022!

Read Trey's reflection, and see how the experiences iEARN provides its students impact them in immeasurable ways and for years beyond their participation.

iEARN-USA is implementing Virtual Summer Intensive NSLI-Y programs in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Korean.

Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program alumnus Collins from Cameroon shares his gratitude for the Americans with Disabilities Act and describes his advocacy for accessibility in his home country.

The following reflection was written by Flynn and Alyna, sixth-grade students in iEARN-USA Educator Greg Reiva’s Science Earth Science class at St. Thomas the Apostle School in Illinois, U.S. They reflect on their class’s participation in the iEARN Earth Stewardship and Water is Life projects, as well as the impact of…

Daize from Cameroon shares how is dedicated to spreading the impact of the YES program by helping those around her.

This Giving Tuesday, December 3, 2019, we’re raising funds and sharing stories from the iEARN community to raise awareness and funds to support global iEARN-USA global education and youth programming. Make a donation to support iEARN-USA’s Giving Tuesday campaign by visiting: bit.ly/iearngiving2019, or share your own…

In order to provide a platform for YES alumni who are passionate about disability rights, iEARN-USA worked with AFS-USA and AFS Ghana to host the first-ever YES-wide Inclusivity Workshop in Accra, Ghana from October 15-22, 2019.

In celebration of Exchange Day, we are sharing impact stories from iEARN exchange program alumni. Simone is an alumna of The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y), sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

Imagine having the opportunity to travel to Morocco as a high school senior, along with your fellow students and teachers, to meet your Moroccan peers with whom you had talked with on video conference every two weeks for the past year. In the spring of 2019, 24 high school seniors accompanied by four of their teachers…

iEARN and the Girl Rising project are featured in the recent The New York Times/The Hechinger Report collaboration on June 7, 2019.

iEARN-USA recently partnered with AMIDEAST, another organization that recruits for the YES program, for a YES Gender Parity Specialists (YESGPS) Workshop in Beirut, Lebanon.

iEARN-USA recently sponsored a Digital Storytelling Workshop in Bangladesh for YES alumni.

iEARN-USA Intern Diogene Artilles has been awarded a full QuestBridge scholarship to attend Columbia University!