NSLI-Y and iEarn USA

NSLI-Y Mission statement:

“The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y), sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, provides merit-based scholarships for eligible high school students to learn less commonly taught languages in summer and academic-year overseas immersion programs.

NSLI-Y is part of a U.S. government initiative that prepares American citizens to be leaders in a global world. Now more than ever, it is important that Americans have the necessary linguistic skills and cultural knowledge to promote international dialogue and support American engagement abroad. NSLI-Y aims to provide opportunities to American youth that will spark a lifetime interest in language learning.”

The program sponsors high schoolers to go to a country and learn Hindi, Mandarin, Korean, Russian, Turkish, and Arabic! If you want to find out more about the program, click on the links above! The 2014-2015 applications come during the summer, be sure to check it out!

About iEarn:

"iEARN is a non-profit organization made up of over 30,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 130 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide."

"Since 1988, iEARN has pioneered on-line school linkages to enable students to engage in meaningful educational projects with peers in their countries and around the world."

"Through support from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) iEARN-USA administers the BRIDGE Program, and is also part of Global Connections and Exchange, of ECA. This program focuses on building links between students and teachers in participating countries."