Hendersonville Sister Cities awards $4,000 to 5 local students through its annual “Hendersonville Student Ambassador” Travel Scholarship. Hendersonville Student Ambassadors’ second annual cohort members might be living and mastering in Japan, Jordan, Costa Rica, and Spain throughout the 2019 Summer, 2019 Fall, and 2020 Spring semesters.
Peyton Upchurch, 19, double-majoring in Pre-law Political Science and Spanish at UNC-Greensboro, is currently spending three weeks this summer season in Costa Rica through UNCG’s School of Health and Human Sciences and in cooperation with the Centro Panamericano de Idiomas (CPI). Through the language and subculture immersion application, Peyton will be reading and speaking almost entirely in Spanish – each in class and at home with her host’s family. Peyton grew up in Fletcher and graduated from North Henderson High in 2018.
Skylar Smith, 20, double-majoring in Political Science and Global Studies and minoring in Spanish at UNC-Chapel Hill, can further her language studies this summer via UNC’s 6-week Spanish Business software in Sevilla, Spain. Skylar has lived in Henderson County and graduated from West Henderson High in 2017.
Alex Ramirez, 19, is double-majoring in Human Development & Family Studies and Education at UNC-Chapel Hill and is enrolled in a Master of Arts in Teaching graduate-stage courses via the Pre-MAT program, wanting to earn a Ph.D. In schooling. Alex will similarly pursue his education studies overseas in the fall, spending the 2019 fall semester in Nagoya, Japan, at Nanzan University, studying Japanese and gazing at schooling practices in the Eastern way of life. Alex is a first-generation North Carolinian raised in Hendersonville and a primary-generation university scholar after graduating from Henderson County Early College in 2017.
Mohammed Khalafalla, 19, is an International Business major at UNC-Greensboro looking ahead to a career in global affairs and/or politics, eager to study Japan and its history and lifestyle. To better recognize us of an’s monetary position inside the international economic system and its courting with the United States, Mohammed will spend the whole 2019-20 educational year at Okayama University in Japan. Originally from Egypt, Mohammed was raised in Hendersonville and graduated from Hendersonville High in 2018.
Maria Morava, 21, is double-majoring in Journalism and Global Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and could spend the Fall 2019 semester in Jordan studying the regional refugee crisis and humanitarian response through the SIT Jordan: Refugees, Health & Humanitarian Action application. After graduating from East Henderson High in 2015, Maria apprenticed with Global Citizen at an NGO in Senegal earlier than interning India’s enterprise. Maria’s international experience has knowledgeable her choice to pursue a profession in worldwide journalism, on which she’ll behavior an unbiased area research challenge in Jordan.
Over a dozen college students in excessive colleges, community universities, and four-12 months universities implemented the 2019 “Hendersonville Student Ambassador” Travel Scholarship. In awarding the final recipients, consideration is not restrained to students’ monetary needs, overseas language immersion, and looking at abroad packages’ alignment with/guide of said instructional or professional goals, software place, and characters worldwide enjoy.
As part of their scholarship recipient agreement, each “Hendersonville Student Ambassador” will provide video, image, and/or written updates at some stage in their journey as a way to be shared with the public on Hendersonville Sister Cities’ Facebook page and internet site.
Upon returning from their travels, every scholarship recipient will also deliver a network presentation via Hendersonville Sister Cities’ Speaker Series to share how analyzing overseas and cultural immersion impacted their academic and personal lives and encourage others to make global connections.
About the “Hendersonville Student Ambassador” Travel Scholarship
Created in November 2017, the scholarship was designed to help neighborhood college students, facilitate the global exchange of ideas and culture, and foster consciousness and appreciation of worldwide family members among Henderson County young people. Scholarships may be offered for spring, summer, or fall semester travel and are open to college students with residency in Henderson County who are within the procedure of making use of or had been generalized for an observe abroad, internship or work observe software. To donate to the “Hendersonville Student Ambassador” fund or to research approximately Hendersonville Sister Cities, visit.
