1. National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) - Morocco

   

   NSLI-Y students discover the Moroccan architecture in the Sahara at a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

2. State Department Sports Program Helps Young People with Disabilities in China

   

   Professionals from Mobility International USA, through a Sports Grant traveled to China to help young people with disabilities there become more involved in sports and to increase their self-confidence and involvement in the larger community.

3. Russian Hockey Players Come to the U.S.

   

   Russian youth ice hockey players and coaches traveled to the U.S. for a two-week sports exchange program.

4. Sports Envoys Go to Greece

   

   Partnering with the NBA and WNBA and working closely with U.S. Embassy Athens, the U.S. State Department sent basketball envoys to Athens and Thessaloníki in Greece.

5. Virtual Exchange

   

   See photos of Virtual Exchanges in action. Learn more about Virtual Exchanges, Design Thinking and MOOCs from ECA's Collaboratory.

6. ECA Reveals State by State Impact of Exchange Programs

   The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has been released information on the state by state economic impact of its programs. The report details how many citizen diplomats and citizens of foreign countries from their state participated in ECA programs during the fiscal year 2011-2012.

7. Argentine Engineering Alum Creates 3D Printed Prosthetics

   Gino Tubaro, an electronic engineering student and National Youth Science Camp alumnus from Buenos Aires, Argentina and his team at Darwin Research use 3D printers to create low-cost prosthetics, which would otherwise be very expensive and difficult to import.

8. Make an Impact: Learn Chinese in China!

   

   Ryan Mandado, a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) alumnus, tells us about why he chose to study Chinese.

9. YES ABROAD: South Africa with Jack

   

   Visit Jack, on his year abroad in South Africa as part of the YES Abroad program.

10. Fulbright Alumna Story: The Africa We Know

    

    Fulbright Alumna, Gessye G, produced a documentary during her Fulbright scholarship at American University called "The Africa We Know."

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