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The Experiment Digital
COUNTRIES: Global
DURATION: 06/01/2016 - 04/30/2026
FUNDER: U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, The Stevens Initiative, The Aspen Institute, Bezos Family Foundation
CONTACT: digital@experiment.org
DURATION: 06/01/2016 - 04/30/2026
FUNDER: U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, The Stevens Initiative, The Aspen Institute, Bezos Family Foundation
CONTACT: digital@experiment.org
Program Description
The Experiment Digital connects high school students around the world using dynamic digital platforms, offering thematic knowledge and peer interaction.
Through virtual exchange programs, The Experiment Digital equips young people around the world with essential skills, builds global connections, and prepares them to become engaged civic leaders.
High school students are invited to participate in six-to-eight-week virtual exchanges with The Experiment Digital. Through dynamic platforms that offer videos, chats, workshops, interactive lessons, and games, students develop their digital skills while building relationships with their peers from other countries. Students can enhance their knowledge of subjects like STEM and community service while building the leadership competencies that can propel them into exciting career fields. Along the way, students learn the value of civic engagement, volunteerism, and what it means to be a global citizen.
The Experiment Digital now offers three thematic virtual exchanges:
The Experiment Digital: Leadership in STEM teaches students to formulate and implement STEM projects in their local communities. The Experiment Digital: Youth Leadership & Community Service teaches students project development skills, which each student will use to design a community project that offers a localized solution to any identified need of their choice. The Experiment Digital: English-Spanish Language Exchange connects beginner-level English and Spanish learners and teaches them to read, comprehend, converse, and write about themselves and their social surroundings in both languages.
Countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Palestinian Territories (West Bank), Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Suriname, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yemen
Program Goals
Students will come away from their virtual exchange with:
- Leadership skills and practice;
- Increased involvement in civic engagement and volunteerism;
- Mutual understanding between youth from different countries;
- Increased awareness on specific program themes.
The Experiment Digital Leadership in STEM is implemented by World Learning and is supported by the J. Christopher Stevens Virtual Exchange Initiative (JCSVEI). JCSVEI is a U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs program administered by the Aspen Institute.
World Learning’s The Experiment Digital Youth Leadership & Community Service and English-Spanish Language Engage are funded by the Stevens Initiative, which is housed at the Aspen Institute and is supported by the Bezos Family Foundation.
