Worcester Academy's Rahul Krishnan of Hopkinton, Grade 10, Spending Summer Living And Learning In China #realLEARNING #realWORLD

2016 Jul 22

Worcester Academy's Rahul Krishnan of Hopkinton, Grade 10, is spending the summer living and learning in China.

Rahul is one of two Worcester Academy students spending the summer studying Mandarin Chinese in China, through the NSLI for Youth Study Abroad Scholarship Program. Only about 600 students across the United States are picked every year. The NSLI-Y offers 7 languages, and the programs are offered in 13+ locations around the world.

The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, provides merit-based scholarships for eligible high school students and recent high school graduates to learn less commonly taught languages in summer and academic-year overseas immersion programs.

NSLI-Y is part of a U.S. government initiative that prepares American citizens to be leaders in a global world. Now more than ever, it is important that Americans have the necessary linguistic skills and cultural knowledge to promote international dialogue and support American engagement abroad. NSLI-Y aims to provide opportunities to American youth that will spark a lifetime interest in language learning.

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