Student Stories

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 outside into Korean society. She spoke about how the program has impacted her life, helped shape her values, and develop important interpersonal skills.

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!

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 COVID-19 on them and their communities.

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 from Ithaca High School in Ithaca, NY, a small city in upstate New York, took such a trip as a culminating event following their virtual exchange experience participating in iEARN’s “My Identity, Your Identity” project.

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

Check out a new film featuring the physical and virtual exchange experience of high school students on the Chris Stevens Morocco-USA Youth Media Exchange program.

Inspire the world with your creativity, and check out recent features of artists in Zambia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Romania