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The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) is offering more than 600 full scholarships to U.S. high school students to study abroad and learn Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Hindi, Korean, Russian, and Turkish. Programs begin in Summer 2010. The Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, in cooperation with American Councils for International Education, AFS-USA, iEARN-USA, and Concordia Language Villages, is awarding U.S. government funding to high school and just-graduated students (ages 15–18) to participate in summer, one-semester and full-year language programs in countries where these languages are widely spoken. |
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Programs immerse participants in the cultural and political life of their host country, giving them invaluable formal and informal language practice and sparking a lifetime interest in foreign languages and cultures. While abroad, students will have the opportunity to possibly live with a host family, attend intensive language classes or enroll in a local high school, and participate in cultural and community service programs. As program partner, iEARN is administering programs in India. In addition, iEARN will be providing students with access to the Language Lounges -- an online interactive space where students can practice reading and writing their language of study before, during, and after their physical exchange. Through the Language Lounges, NSLI-Y students have access to thousands of native speakers of each of the seven NSLI-Y languages, who are part of the iEARN network around the world. |
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_________________________________________________________________________ iEARN and Adobe partner on Adobe Youth Voices, a new global initiative empowering youth to create with purpose. |
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Adobe Youth Voices is Adobe's a global philanthropic initiative that empowers youth worldwide to comment on their world using multimedia and digital tools to communicate and share their ideas, demonstrate their potential, and take action in their communities. Adobe Youth Voices employs an integrated approach in and out of the classroom to show the power technology brings to learning and enable middle-and high-school aged youth to think creatively, communicate effectively, and work collaboratively—critical 21st century skills. In 2008-2009, iEARN-USA is coordinating an expansion initiative to bring educators into the program from Argentina, Bahrain, Belarus, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, India, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Taiwan, Turkey, UAE, Uganda, and the USA. See below for a list of events. iEARN-India is presently working on Four rivers one world project with iEARN-USA, Nepal and Bangladesh. As a part of this project a workshop was conducted to give the theory and practical experiences to the teachers about the water and quality of the water, various tests regarding water quality and keeping the rivers clean for present and future citizens. As a part of this project, the Indian teachers along with iEARN-USA Nepal and Bangladesh attended the training program at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. The Indian teachers also participated the exhibition and the presentation in Youth can conference conducted at Natural History Museum, NYC. |
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City students take the plight of Pune rivers |
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1. iEARN India National conference: "We are The world" May 2008, 130 delegates from 5 states participated in the conference. The animation films and documentaries on social issues were screened by the students as the out come of the successful completion of the project "Adobe Youth Voices" sponsored by adobe. During the conference the students and the teachers had a chance to interact with the renowned art film maker of the Indian cinema. 2. The iEARN-India youth undertook a tree plantation project where Neem and other medicinal trees were planted to nearby schools. |
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| 3. During the Youth service month where the students from Hyderabad donated essentials to orphanages and under privileged schools. iEARN student s from different schools and colleges visited the school for deaf, in Secunderabad and handed over the collected material to them. The volunteers received great collection of Notebooks, Story books ,Teaching aids, Pictorial charts and Maps, Sports material, other stationary, lunch boxes, water bottles, geometry boxes and Daily needs sufficient for one month for 30 students residing in the hostel along with the Grocery sufficient for a month including a rice bag of 100 kgs. | ||||
4. Students from Delhi and Mumbai Won iPP painting award for their work. 5. Students from Pune participated in community services projects and taught paper bag making and other art work to Doorstep school. 6. Students from Pune initiated the activity "Think Green Be Green and Follow Green". They joined hands against the environmental issues and used bicycles for a whole year and made paper bags which were distributed to nearby fruit vendors. These students were also part of a workshop conducted by iEARN India on environment. Ms. Lynne Godowsky, The DPO US consulate, Mumbai made presentations about environmental issues and awarded certificates to the successful participants of Cycle week. |
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7. Students from Hyderabad and Pune celebrated Kite flying festival where they flew kites as a part of "Kites for peace" project with iEARN Israel. |
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