Menaul School is committed to giving every student numerous opportunities to explore what being World Smart means to them. Menaul students study abroad in Europe and Asia, but they also have the opportunity to interact with our incredibly diverse international student population every day.
Students at Menaul School have the opportunity to participate in a half-month cultural exchange in Germany. For students seeking a more immersive exchange experience, Menaul School’s partner campus in Qingdao, China affords opportunities to truly experience life in another country while continuing Menaul’s academic program. Menaul also hosts students from around the world for short-term and year-long exchange opportunities, in addition to our permanent international student population representing 20 to 30 different countries.
Trip to Löwenrot, Germany
July 6-21, 2022
6 Menaul School students stayed with host families.
Highlights:
- Learning German 101
- Trying German cuisine
- Visiting historical castles and the Black Forest
- Taking a day trip to France (Strasbourg)
- Participating in a group project with their counterparts at Löwenrot
Read more about this program here.
AFS Summer Global Prep Program
Menaul School rising seniors Mikayla Sierra and Elaina Ortiz-Cerno had the experience of a lifetime over the summer in Kenya, participating in a competitive grant program designed to help expand opportunities for New Mexican youth. Mikayla and Elaina participated in the AFS Summer Global Prep Program and were each awarded the Globe Runner Scholarship Fund. This competitive and life changing program offers high-achieving high school students from underrepresented communities in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico area the opportunity to step outside their local community and develop a global vision by studying abroad.
Menaul’s two exceptional rising seniors had the opportunity to choose from three different global experiences, ultimately settling on travel to Kenya on a service-oriented trip that incorporated social services and environmental justice components.
The AFS-USA’s Faces of America (FOA) scholarship works with a consortium of community-based organizations to identify promising young scholars for educational opportunities abroad. In addition, the Globe Runner Scholarship Fund offers high-achieving high school students from underserved communities in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico area the opportunity to step outside their local community and develop a global vision by studying abroad.
The program is looking for future changemakers, those primed to help build a more just and peaceful world in the future. Students should be mature, independent, open-minded, flexible, and responsible enough to spend two-three weeks away from their family and in the home of a host family.
Read more about this program here.
