Becca’s Time at the YES Civic Education Workshop
From February 22-28, 2020 almost 100 YES students participated in the first YES Civic Education Workshop of 2020 in Washington, DC. Six...
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- Mar 13, 2019
- 4 min
What It’s Like to Host, Part One
Thirty students from countries across Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Asia come to Iowa each school year to attend American high...
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- Feb 8, 2018
- 2 min
Iowa Student Global Leadership Conference 2018
Over the weekend of February 3rd, 2018, The Stanley Foundation hosted its 22nd Iowa Student Global Leadership Conference in Des Moines,...
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- Dec 11, 2017
- 2 min
An Exchange Experience to Remember
Ruth (current YES student, Ghana, hosted by IRIS) has been a wonderful student ambassador for her home country of Ghana since she...
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- Nov 14, 2017
- 2 min
Building Bridges by Sharing Cultures
Learning about another country and its culture in high school isn’t something regularly in the curriculum. Even after high school,...
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- Aug 25, 2017
- 5 min
YES Students Share Their First Day of School Experiences
As schools across the country got back into the swing of things this week, our 2017-18 YES participants swung at a new target: school in...
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