| Dynamy Internship Year - www.internshipyear.org Dynamy Internship Year is the oldest and only residential internship program in the country. Our mission is to offer young people, ages 17-22, a transformational gap year (or semester) opportunity. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, Dynamy Internship Year integrates full-time mentored internships in over 240 organizations with urban and backcountry leadership experiences, personal and college/career advising, city apartment living, and the company of a remarkable group of peers |
Bridgton Academy - www.bridgtonacademy.org Bridgton Academy's mission is to provide a program for young men in a unique, one-year postgraduate environment to prepare for the rigors of college and beyond. Bridgton Academy consists of an adult community committed to developing the whole student by providing a dynamic and challenging skills-based curriculum, a diverse campus life, and an appropriate extracurricular program to promote mental, social, and physical growth. The Bridgton Academy graduate should have grown through the postgraduate experience so that he enters college with improved confidence, values, judgment, life skills, and maturity to succeed. |
Brown Ledge - www.brownledgegapyear.com The Brown Ledge Gap Year Program gives students life and work skills, as well as training them in documentary production to help them investigate and respond to the world around them. The program starts with an intensive training session in techniques and styles of video, audio, and digital photography. Participants will then travel to two unique American cities - New Orleans and El Paso—- where they will live together while individually doing half-time internships or community service and creating their own documentary work |
Center for Interim Programs - www.interimprograms.com The Center for Interim Programs is a consulting service that helps young people find meaningful gap year placements. Since our inception in 1980 as the first organization of its kind in the United States, Interim has designed creative gap year opportunities for over 5,000 young people. We have built relationships with organizations worldwide and offer a database of over 5,200 program opportunities |
City Year - www.cityyear.org City Year was founded on the belief that young people can change the world. City Year’s vision is that one day a year of service will become an opportunity for and common expectation of every young person. City Year’s signature program, the City Year Youth Service Corps, each year unites more than 1,400 young people ages 17-24 for a demanding year of full-time community service, leadership development, and civic engagement. These young leaders come from diverse backgrounds and put their idealism to work by tutoring and mentoring school children, reclaiming public spaces, and organizing after-school programs, school vacation camps, and the Starfish Corps, Young Heroes, and City Heroes programs. |
Class Afloat - www.classafloat.com Class Afloat offers the unique opportunity to sail around the world for a GAP year or for university courses through Acadia University. Each year 40 GAP year and freshman students join us for 10 months on board the SY Fryderyck Chopin, visit over twenty-five ports of call, experience diverse cultures and discover the world. Drawing upon the social dynamics of life and work in the microcosm of a sailing ship and first-hand explorations in the macrocosm of the planet, Class Afloat students forge new standards in leadership, personal development and academic excellence. |
The Experiment in International Living - www.worldlearning.org Through homestays, adventure travel, experiential learning, and language immersion, students build leadership and communication skills, gain essential international experience, increase their self-confidence, and enhance their global awareness. Whatever the destination or focus, all Experiment summer abroad programs engage students in a profoundly moving educational journey of cultural exploration and discovery. |
Global Routes - www.globalroutes.org Global Routes offers teen summer community service programs for high school students finishing the 9th through 12th grades and gap year and college semester teaching internships for students 18 years of age and older in Belize, China, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Tanzania, Thailand and Vietnam. |
Kroka Expeditions - www.kroka.com Founded in 1996, Kroka Expeditions is an Earth Living Skills School dedicated to assisting young people in developing strong character, responsibility, community, and a sense of place in harmony with nature. All of our programs offer sustainable community living experiences balanced with state-of-the-art instruction in adventure sports and the ancient art of wilderness living. |
LEAP NOW: Transforming Education - www.leapnow.org LEAPNOW puts the best aspects of a gap year into an alternative year of college called LEAPYEAR, where students enroll in a fully accredited college with full access to Federal financial aid and do a 3-month group semester in Asia or Latin America, a 3-month individual internship anywhere in the world, and an intensive Rite of Passage. Four intensive retreats in California focus on the development of conscious community and communication, learning to live in a high state of integrity, and deeply exploring the questions "who am I" and "who do I want to be as an adult." LEAPNOW also arranges individual internships for traditional gap years. |
Lexia Study Abroad Programs - www.lexiaintl.org To ensure that your study abroad commitment is more than simply an exposure to another culture, Lexia has developed an approach that is based on full participation in the daily life and work of a community. Lexia's programs, all of which are located in dynamic urban centers, emphasize student engagement in active, reflective learning, small, individualized classes, affiliations with local academic institutions, a dedicated, on-site resident director and staff, individualized, personal advising, and an independent academic research project. |
Living Routes - www.livingroutes.org Earn college credit from University of Massachusetts Amherst on our semester, Summer and January-term study abroad programs (open also to gap year/high school students). Through academic and experiential coursework, environmental community service learning, and cultural excursions, you develop the understanding, skills and commitment to restore our planet and prepare for careers that make a difference. Living Routes is a carbon neutral organization. |
School Year Abroad - www.sya.org Founded in 1964 by Phillips Academy in Andover and now a consortium including top independent schools across the country, School Year Abroad (SYA) is the only secondary-level program which allows students to live with a European or Asian family for an entire academic year while earning U.S. graduation credits and preparing for selective U.S. colleges and universities. Every year each one of our schools in China, France, India, Italy and Spain enrolls approximately 60 students. Students come from public and private schools across the United States. |
SeaMester - www.seamester.com SeaMester delivers unique educational journeys at sea where students spend their semester sailing between islands, countries and even continents throughout countless global locations. We offer students the gift of discovering the world by sea, knowledge beyond the classroom, and their utmost potential. Set your course and study abroad by spending a semester at sea exploring the world. Along the way, earn college credits and work toward professional certifications in sailing and scuba diving in some of the world's most incredible destina¬tions |
SEA Semester - www.sea.edu SEA is an educational institution dedicated to exploration, understanding and stewardship of the oceans, and to the study of humanity's relationship with the oceans. SEA offers students an interdisciplinary curriculum, on shore and at sea aboard tall ships, that provides challenging voyages of scientific discovery, academic rigor, and personal growth |
Sojourns Abroad - www.sojournsabroad.org Programs in Siena, Barcelona, and Paris include social service internships, language study, homestay, excursions, outdoor adventures, and cultural enrichment. Each element of the program is designed to combine with the others to ground participants quickly as residents in their chosen city. It is a stimulating respite from the restricting demands of both traditional academic paths and conventional study abroad programs. Sojourns Abroad is for those who want some time away from over-scheduling and the expectations of others.
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Travellers Worldwide - www.travellersworldwide.com Over 300 voluntary projects abroad in 21 countries, including Care and Community projects, Teaching, Sports coaching, Work Experience (Medical, Journalism, Law, Tourism and Adventure Tourism, research programmes and much more), Conservation, Marine, Language Courses and Cultural Courses, Drama, Dance & Music, plus some study abroad courses and projects abroad that are, well, different! All our placements are suitable for gap years, bridge years, grown-up gappers, career breaks, students, internships and retired people. |
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Vermont Intercultural Semesters - www.vermontis.org Vermont Intercultural Semesters (VIS) is an international semester program of cultural immersion, currently in Ladakh, a former Buddhist Kingdom in the Himalaya that is now part of India. VIS is unique because it offers affordability & accreditation for HS students, who earn 5.5 academic credits, cultural immersion –- students live with peers abroad for 3-4 months, and mutually beneficial studies involving both sets of students. |
Woolman Semester - www.woolman.org/woolman.html The Woolman Semester is a high school semester studies program for juniors, seniors, and first-year postgraduates. Through a focus on the issues of peace, justice, and sustainability, the Woolman Semester enriches a typical high school curriculum with seminar-style course work and experiential opportunities that promote life-long learning, personal growth and intellectual commitment. |
Youth International - www.youthinternational.org Youth International focuses upon inter-cultural exchange, volunteer work, home stays, and outdoor adventure. Travel for three months, from September to December or February to May, with a team of up to 14 people, ages 18 to 25, and two leaders. Explore three different countries in: Asia (Thailand, India, Vietnam) or South America (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador). Help build an orphanage in Bolivia, live with tribal families in Thailand, meditate with Tibetan monks in the Himalayas, visit the Taj Mahal, do conservation work in the Ecuadorian rainforest, sail the Galapagos Islands, hike the Inca trail to Machu Picchu, and much more! |