An easy-to-read guide to AFS Scholarships is now available to download. Please reach out to scholarships@afsusa.org with any questions.
Tag: Scholarships
Find out what’s new in national scholarships! Plus, don’t forget to send in your updates on local area team scholarships.
The deadline to apply for the NSLI-Y scholarship is rapidly approaching! Digital brochures and posters are now available.
As we move into “sending” season, we want to make sure you’re aware of all the resources available to volunteers. New and updated marketing materials: We’re excited to announce that marketing has a newly-redesigned study abroad catalog that you can order on the Field Hub. The catalog includes an up-to-date list of year, semester, 4-8 […]
The Outbound Sponsored Programs team is happy to announce that the 2018-19 CBYX, NSLI-Y and YES Abroad applications are now available online. Please join us in spreading the news about these full scholarship programs which are sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) is a merit-based […]
AFS/YES Student From India Receives Full Scholarship to Wellesley College In 2014, Manvi Chaudhury was a Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) scholarship recipient from India who was hosted with AFS-USA in Minneapolis, MN. “After that year I started dreaming of doing more,” she said. Now Manvi, who comes from a rural village in India, […]
The Project: Change scholarship contest is back for its 4th year! Below is a refresher/introduction to the contest AND a list of changes in how it will be implemented this year. Project: Change is a scholarship contest for 8th-12th graders that asks, “What change would you make in the world?” Students can submit their original […]
On September 12th, the AFS Community in Washington, D.C. gathered to honor several distinguished AFS Changemakers—individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of international education and the AFS Mission of building a more just and peaceful world. The honorees included: Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT) Co-Chair of the bipartisan International Exchange and Study Caucus; […]
My Year in Germany As a sophomore in high school, I was lucky enough to meet an AFS Exchange Student studying at a local high school. After hearing about her experiences, I met with my local AFS Volunteers to discuss the different opportunities to study abroad, including the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) scholarship. I wanted […]
I had just arrived in Germany and after being awake for many, many hours, I was almost at the end of my journey. I was riding a train from Frankfurt Airport to Berlin with two very kind AFS Germany Volunteers and two exchange students, both nervous to meet their host families for the first time […]