When Joan Quartey first heard about the AFS Global STEM Academies, she wasn’t sure the program was for someone like…
Through the AFS Global STEM AcceleratorsAFS Global STEM Accelerators scholarship program, Khushi Upadhyay realized she had the power to create…
When Johari Barrientos-Murray joined the 2025 AFS Global STEM Academies program, she already had a passion for sustainability and climate…
From our first 30 participants in 1946 to more than 8,000 exchange participants in 2026, AFS has grown a global…
Phillipa still remembers how different New Mexico felt from the America she’d pictured. The city turned out to be a…
More than twenty years after boarding a plane out of Türkiye as a teenager, Gizem Öztürk still carries the lesson…
When Abhinav Agarwal, a high school student from Rajasthan, India, received a full scholarship to the AFS Global STEM Academies in…
In 1993, at 17 years old, Luca Parmitano left Catania, Sicily, for a year of study in Mission Viejo, California.…
In the small coastal city of Falkenberg, in Sweden’s Halland county, Anne-Marie and Karl-Gustav Ohlson raised three daughters. But over…