Red Bank Student Chosen for People-to-People
December 28th, 2011 | by Alica Story |People to People Ambassador Programs, a leader in global educational travel experiences, today announced that Ellen Wilson, a sixth-grader at Red Bank Middle School from Hixson, Tenn., has won a “50 for Fifty” scholarship to travel with a 2012 student delegation.
Ellen received a place on her local Student Ambassador delegation. Fifty full Student Ambassador Scholarships are to be awarded to one student in each of the 50 states to further the organization’s long-term goal of building cultural awareness and global understanding.
“I am so excited to have this opportunity,” said Ellen. “I am most looking forward to staying with another family while I am there to see what their everyday lives are like. I can’t wait to see the differences between their cultures and mine.”
Ellen is a track and cross country runner, as well as a high-achieving student who was recognized on her school’s Star Roll. These are traits that will make her an exemplary student ambassador.
The scholarship sweepstakes was open to full-time students in grades 5 through 12 who entered themselves via an online submission process. As one of the 50 winners, out of more than 60,000 entrants, Ellen will have the opportunity to travel with one of the more than 25 unique programs offered on all seven continents. Scholarship recipients were selected through a random drawing.
The nationwide scholarship sweepstakes was awarded in conjunction with People to People Ambassador Programs’ 50th anniversary of providing world-class international student travel.
“We are excited to commemorate 50 years and the more than 500,000 ambassadors who have traveled abroad with us,” said Peg Thomas, president of People to People Ambassador Programs. “Providing these scholarships to a student in all 50 states gives us a way to celebrate our history while providing students throughout the country with the chance to have this life-changing experience by connecting with different cultures directly.”
“I’m excited that Ellen Wilson has the opportunity to travel internationally with People to People Ambassador Programs,” said Michelle Shearer, 2011 National Teacher of the Year. “Having traveled to China and Japan as National Teacher of the Year, I know that educational travel is an invaluable opportunity to learn about cultural similarities and differences.”
Increasingly, cultural awareness is a necessary component of success in our global economy. Student travel with People to People expands students’ world views, stretches their horizons through education-based travel. Each program explores cultural attractions, offers homestays or other people-to-people moments, incorporates community involvement through service projects, and provides unique People to People moments like meeting with parliament members in the UK, laying wreaths of remembrance at Normandy or staying in sacred Maori sites in New Zealand. Research shows that more than 80 percent of students who travel with People to People Student Ambassador Programs are accepted into the college of their choice.
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