What will you do this summer?

Discover your leadership potential? Make a difference in someone’s life? Experience a new culture?

Why not do it all?

Be part of a meaningful international experience through the C1 Leadership Academy.

For four packed weeks, you’ll join other high school students to discover a new culture and country, participate in relevant service activities, and develop your leadership skills: problem-solving, decision-making, and more. Make a difference—find out what it means to have a lasting impact on others.

Program Leader Blogs

  • Annie

    Annie Ewbank

    Program: High School Summer Abroad in China

    Bio: A Chinese major at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Annie studied in Nanjing with CIEE. It was her first time in Mainland China, though she has also studied abroad...

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  • Arielle

    Arielle Singleton

    Program: High School Summer Abroad in Czech Republic

    Bio: Arielle is a recent graduate of Penn State and an avid traveler. She majored in Biological Anthropology so different cultures have always interested her. She showed...

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  • Nicholas

    Nicholas Schirmer

    Program: High School Summer Abroad in Dominican Republic

    Bio:Nicholas first traveled to the Dominican Republic three years ago on a study abroad program with CIEE and has been determined to make it back ever since...

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  • Destiny

    Destiny Arturet

    Program: High School Summer Abroad in Ghana

    Bio: Destiny is currently a first-year graduate student at New York University focusing on Global Women’s Studies with an emphasis on West Africa. Her love for West Africa...

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  • Karen

    Karen Hendrickson

    Program: High School Summer Abroad in Japan

    Bio: Karen has been passionate about Japan, Japanese, and study abroad ever since her first encounter with the country as an exchange student in 1984. Since that first year...

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  • Marzieh

    Marzieh Goudarzi

    Program: High School Summer Abroad in Jordan

    Bio: Marzieh is currently a correspondent with Inter Press Services' (IPS) United Nations Bureau in New York. She earned her bachelor's degree in Diplomacy and World...

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  • Hollyanne

    Hollyanne Joyner Giffin

    Program: High School Summer Abroad in Senegal

    Bio: HollyAnne is currently a full-time teacher and dorm parent at a school outside Houston, Texas. Previously she has worked as an outdoor adventure guide and a...

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  • Lauren

    Lauren Vachon

    Program: High School Summer Abroad in Spain

    Bio: Lauren Vachon is a twenty-two year old student at Northeastern University, in Boston, MA. She is currently on co-op, working full time at a non-profit organization...

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