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Name: GlobalQuest
Phone: 207-879-1722
Email: aadams@gquest.org
Website: www.gquest.org
Director: Daniel Creek
Locations: Thailand, Ecuador/The Galapagos Islands
Duration: 12 week semesters
Tuition: $15-16,000
Financial Aid: Significant! 50% of students receive financial aid. Aid is awarded based on demonstrated financial need
Setting: Authentic teachers, transport, loding and learning. Students travel by dug-out canoe, tuk-tuk, kayak, raft, by foot, and by van, not tour buses that remove them from the true experience of the country. When they arrive at their many destinations, students will stay with local families, in hostels, on the floor of schoolhouses in the rainforest and beach in houses or aboard research barges or chartered boats in the Galapagos.
Referrals:
Bob Henderson, Headmaster Noble & Greenough School, Boston, MA bob_henderson@nobles.edu Holly Bull, Center for Interim Programs (609) 683-4300
Gail Reardon Taking Off, Educational Consultants takingoff@takingoff.net (617) 424-1606
Highlights: GlobalQuest WILL change your life

Curriculum

Learn history and culture through sitting meditation in Busshist monasteries with the monks or learning to throw a spear with Huorani tribesmen.

Learn language through city-wide scavenger hunts using public transport.

For three weeks, chose a topic of YOUR choice and pursue it in depth during your Individual Inquiry Project.

Lead your group for 6 days during SLC (Student Led Curriculum). The group receives a budget and are wholly responsible for lodging, travel and logistics to any part of the country where they will devise a 6 day educational experience as the teachers step back and let them take the reigns!

GlobalQuest is a non-profit, experiential study abroad semester program for seniors and recent high school graduates. 12 week semesters are offered each spring and fall in Thailand and Ecuador.

Groups of 12 students and three teachers study language, history, culture and environmental science experientially outside the traditional "desk and blackboard" classroom through homestay, service work, expeditions, internships and extended experiences.

Nomadic in nature, students stay not just in one city or town, but travel from the coasts to the mountains, rainforests and islands and experience large cities, rural towns and indigenous villages so that they can experience the entire country as an authentic whole.

Students earn five full course credits during their semester and return better prepared for college or the college admissions process. They are ready to lead their generation as global citizens.