3/23/2005 - AFS Announces 2005 Awards for Excellence Scholarships Winners
AFS-USA congratulates the 119 outstanding high school students selected to receive the 2005 Awards for Excellence Scholarships, totaling more than $200,000. More than 1,500 students were nominated for this prestigious, merit-based program that awards scholarships for students to study abroad. The awards, given based upon leadership skills, service to the community, and academic excellence, reflect the AFS Intercultural Programs/USA commitment to making its student exchange programs available to the best and the brightest students, irrespective of financial ability.
Now in its seventh year, AFS Awards for Excellence is the premier scholarship program of AFS-USA. AFS Awards for Excellence provides full and partial scholarships to high school students who will study abroad for a year, semester, or summer on programs that depart in 2005 or 2006 to more than 40 countries. Students will gain firsthand knowledge of what it’s like to live as a member of a family, school, and community in another country. AFS is a worldwide nonprofit organization that has been leading international high school student exchange for more than 57 years.
High school students must be nominated by their teachers, guidance counselors, honor society advisors, or principals to be eligible for consideration, and they must exhibit leadership qualities, service to community, and a minimum 3.5 GPA (based on a 4.0 scale). High schools of 1,000 students or fewer may nominate up to 5 students. Schools of more than 1,000 students may nominate up to 10 students.
Nominations for the 2006 AFS Awards for Excellence scholarship program are currently being accepted for programs departing summer 2006 and winter 2007. For more information about the Awards for Excellence Scholarship Program, please call 1-800-AFS-INFO.
AFS-USA works toward a more just and peaceful world by providing international and intercultural learning experiences to individuals, families, schools, and communities through a global volunteer partnership. Each year, AFS awards more than $1 million in scholarships and financial aid to help make it possible for students to study abroad. AFS also makes it possible for all kinds of families in the United States to have international experiences by hosting outstanding students and teachers from abroad. For more information about scholarships, study abroad programs, hosting an AFS Exchange Student, or volunteering in your community with AFS, call 1-800-AFS-INFO or visit www.afs.org/usa.
Contact: Marlene Baker, mbaker@afs.org Grant Moser, 212-299-9000×313, gmoser@afs.org
For more than 57 years, AFS Intercultural Programs has been leading international high school student exchange. AFS was founded by volunteer American Field Service ambulance drivers from World Wars I and II who believed—as AFS believes today—that the way to build a more just and peaceful world begins when people from different countries meet, learn about each other, and begin to understand each other. AFS is a 501©3 nonprofit organization and is largely a volunteer-driven organization, with more than 8,000 U.S. volunteers and 30,000 worldwide.
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