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Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs Thirty high school students from Eurasia who are spending the academic year in the U.S. will travel to Middlebury, VT to participate in an innovative Computer Training of Trainers (CTT) workshop from March 22-30. The students are originally from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. They are in the United States as part of the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) program, funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The workshop will be held on the campus of Middlebury College. Students will develop their computer skills, learn teaching methodologies and conduct a needs and resource assessment of their home communities. At the conclusion of the workshop, students will develop a concrete self-designed action plan to enable them to complete an IT training project that will best fit the needs of their community when they return to Eurasia. Participants will also engage in a roundtable discussion with students from Middlebury Union High School who are working as activists in their community. They will meet with a group of Armenian school principals who are in Vermont exploring the role of technology in education Harlem Live, a teen-run Internet publication, (www.harlemlive.org), is sending staff to Middlebury to provide a real-life example of how young people can use technology to reflect, change, and improve their communities. The FLEX program provides students from these emerging democracies with an opportunity to experience democratic society by spending a year living with an American host family and attending a U.S. high school. Participants gain skills and insights that will help them promote democracy upon their return to Eurasia. The thirty participants for the FLEX CTT workshop were selected from 1,265 FLEX students through a comprehensive application process developed by Project Harmony, an international, not-for-profit organization that will conduct the workshop. CONTACT: Nicole Deaner
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