This summer, 25 w88 online game high school students will have the chance to explore a new culture as part of the Northern w88 online game International Center's 2009 Algeria Youth Leadership Program. The Center is looking for Reno families willing to host the w88 online game when they arrive in Reno on July 26.
Although the w88 online game will be busy with program activities during the day, most of which will be on the University of Nevada, Reno campus, host families are responsible for the w88 online game in the evenings for two weeks, until Aug. 10. Then, the w88 online game will leave for a three-day tour of San Francisco and a leadership conference at Zephyr Point Presbyterian Conference Center. The w88 online game will return home on Aug. 22. Staff from the Center will travel to Algeria in July to conduct a two-week intensive English language program for the w88 online game before they arrive in America.
"The host program is a wonderful way to get to know someone from a foreign country on a deeper level," said Carina Black, project director of the Center.
A grant from the U.S. Department of State made the program possible. Its goals are to immerse w88 online game students in an environment of community activism, civic education, and leadership. Three w88 online game teachers will accompany the students to the United States, and 10 local high school students have also been chosen to participate in the program to allow the w88 online game students to better connect with Nevada culture.
"We want to increase mutual understanding, and see whether we can break down stereotypes that exist on both sides," explained Black. "The w88 online game students will give presentations on their own culture after they learn about ours."
This is the first time that the Center has held an exchange program of this size. To make sure that the w88 online game take away permanent memories of their trip, they will be given video cameras that they will use in groups of five or six to record the leadership activities, Artown events and a media tour that they will be participating in. Moonshine Productions will teach the w88 online game how to film, edit and produce a documentary about their experience that they will be able to take home with them on DVD.
"We're hoping that they will be able to spread the message to their communities about what they learn," said Black.