Applications are Now Open for the 2025 Global Travel Scholars Program!
The Global Travel Scholars program provides full scholarships to selected current sophomores and juniors (age 16+ as of February 1, 2025) with financial need to participate in a summer program abroad through World Learning’s The Experiment in International Living.
To be considered, students must complete a TWO-PART application process by Wednesday, January 8, 2025:
- – PART 1: Complete the Global Travel Scholars Application Form
- – Note: Questions 20-22 must be completed in consultation with a parent/ guardian.
- – PART 2: Application for Admission through The Experiment portal
- – Note: Answer Yes to the question on the first Program Selection page, Were you nominated by your sponsoring organization? Then, choose World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh from the drop-down list provided.
Learn more by watching our virtual info session below!
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About The Global Travel Scholars Program
The World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh’s Global Travel Scholars program provides a full scholarship to selected high school sophomores and juniors with financial need to participate in a summer program abroad through World Learning’s The Experiment in International Living.
In this program, learning lasts beyond the three weeks you’ll spend abroad. Before the summer, you’ll participate in workshops on topics like cultural humility, privilege, and identity. And after, you’ll improve public speaking and leadership skills through a storytelling event and a group project!
Travel abroad programs last three to five weeks and involves a combination of host family stays, language training, community service, and outdoor adventures. Since 2004, we have sent over 170 students to more than 30 countries including Argentina, Australia, Belize, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Mongolia, Morocco, Peru, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Tanzania, and Thailand.
Developing a network of globally-minded peers, students leave this program better prepared to lead in an increasingly globally connected world.
“The Global Travel Scholarship program gets you ready for the real world in ways that one, you will be nervous about and two, you won’t be ready for, but that’s what makes it exciting.”
– Anicet Mundumdu, Global Travel Scholar to South Africa
