The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) deadline is Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 4 pm ET. Summer and academic year scholarships to go abroad, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, are available. Students can apply to study Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Korean, Persian (Tajiki), Russian and Turkish.

Help us promote this great opportunity to students – more information can be found on http://www.nsliforyouth.org/ and digital versions of the updated NSLI-Y brochure and poster are available to download here.

Read about how Bliss spent his 2016 summer in India with the NSLI-Y scholarship and AFS here. Since his return, Bliss has continued to remain active with AFS, serving as a group leader at this summer’s Gateway Orientation and helping prepare students for their summer in Indore, India.