Long-Term Youth Exchange provides opportunities to:
- Learn a new culture and language
- Be a student ambassador
- Make friends for a lifetime
- Become a global citizen
This High School eleven-month program involves living with up to three host families and attending school. Students become immersed in a new language and culture. Students must be between the ages of 15 and 19 at the time of departure and have at least a GPA of 2.75 or over. The experience begins the year before going to study abroad as they go through the application, selection, and six-month preparation process. The program value is equal to approximately $24,000, a student’s cost runs between $5-6,000.
How to apply
First, students should submit the preliminary application below at any time prior to September 1. Once this application has been received a local Rotary Club will set up a local interview. Following that, a link to the online robust full application and supplemental documents will be sent to the student for completion. Those are due by October 1 with final District interviews in early November.
Rotary District 6310, is part of the Central States Rotary Youth Exchange program (see help links), which sends and receives students to/from approximately 40 countries. Examples include the countries listed below.
- Australia
- Argentina
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Chile
- Croatia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Italy
- Japan
- South Korea
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Mexico
- Norway
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Zambia
+ many more, list subject to change
Rotary Youth Exchange is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nation of origin, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, languages spoken, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
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