High School Summer Abroad
Promote Programs for High School Students
What is CIEE High School Summer Abroad?
Ah, have you heard the news? We've been given nearly 2,000 scholarships for CIEE's High School Summer Abroad 2024 programs! That's right, nearly $2 million reserved for our host families, their friends, and our local schools!
- 35+ amazing destinations: Paris, Barcelona, Rome, Tokyo, Rabat, and more... Students can find their perfect place to improve their language fluency, adapt to a ne culture, and get real-world experience in a topic of their choice!
- High school students can meet other students from across the U.S. and make friend with local teens as they gain confidence, independence, responsibility, and a more global perspective.
You're making a great choice when studying abroad
When you choose to study abroad you...
#1 - Gain a global perspective
#2 - Make new friends
#3 - Learn about difference cultures
... just to name a few!
Checkout all the places you can go!
Why Do High School Summer Abroad
Transforming lives through international exchange programs
Check out the latest podcast
Listen to CIEE's podcast on "What's it like to meet a new family on the other side of the world?".
Global Exchange Local Coordinator or GELC
Become a GELC today!
Global Exchange Local Coordinators (GELC) are passionate community leader with a focus on increasing cultural exchange experiences for their local community.
They:
- Recruit local host families
- Match exchange students with local host families
- Create relationships with community organizations to help further the goal of more exchange
- Partner with schools so that foreign exchange students can study while on program
- Leverage relationships to recruit students to participate in the High School Summer Abroad (HSSA) program
This program is really cool
Checkout this clip of students meeting their host families in Morocco!
GELC Training
Watch these trainings and become a GELC ready to make an immeasurable impact on your community!
High School Summer Abroad Overview
We'll gain a better understanding of programming!
HSSA Process & Program Spotlight
How do you get a lead online? What comes next? Step by step!
HSSA Recruitment Strategy
Let's recruit some students! Where will we find them?
HSSA Scholarship Strategy
We have scholarship money available to us, how do we use it?
High School Summer Abroad Scholarships
How do kids raise the money and make this program happen?
Next Steps
HSSA Playbook
Outreach
Use tools in the LC Resource Center.
Use social media & word of mouth to share with your network.
Let school clubs know you have a scholarship for one of their students.
Partner with local businesses. If you give a scholarship to a local teen, will they match it?
Application Process
Share the website ciee.org/summer24, ask them to tell you when they're ready to apply.
Send them your LC referral link from Beacon, this this a link to the application.
Submit the HSSA Participant Referral form to track this lead.
Refer questions to hsabroad@ciee.org or 866-583-0332.
LC Community Scholarship
Determine how you want to divide your award (increments of $1,000).
Submit the LC Community Scholarship Statement of Intent.
Receive scholarship redemption code (one code per award).
Give redemption code to the scholarship receipient.
Host Family Scholarship
Determine if current host families will be using their scholarship for their child or give it to someone else.
Fill out the Host Family Scholarship form.
Receive scholarship redemption code.
Five the redemption code to the recipient.
How do kids learn about HSSA?
Locations
When? When? How?
1
Interest
Prospective students learn about the program and express interest.
2
Referral
Student receives referral link to apply from Local Coordinator.
3
Apply
Student applies to a scholarship and program.
Merit scholarship deadline: ?
Needs-based deadline: January 24
Get Started
4
Chat with Enrollment Coordinator (EC)
Student is contacted by their EC.
4
Accepted
- No scholarship? Student accepted in 14 days.
- Merit scholarship? Student accepted in 14 days, notified on scholarship in October/November
- Merit and Need scholarship? Student notified in February/March
- Once accepted, student has 7 days to pay $1,000 deposit
- All payments are due April 14
6
Prepare to travel
Student is confirmed for the program and prepares to travel between June and July.