I have no experience with this particular program, but when between my son's 7th & 8th grade year, he was invited to do a trip with Student Ambassadors. The cost for 3 weeks was $3500 and they went from Detroit to a couple different parts of Germany (each child had a home stay with a German family for a week), then to Paris and London (where they got to sit in on a parliment session) before returning home. We did lots of fundraising prior to his trip - which raised about 1/2 the needed $.
They had 6 weeks of getting to know you sessions before the students left (there were 34 in his group) that required group projects and presentations on the countries and customs they would be visiting. They were each responsible for all their own items while traveling, including their passports and spending money. They were only allowed one suitcase that had to fit in an overhead compartment, so washing out underwear happened as well.
It was a tremendous learning experience for him as well as a growing experience since he had never been away from home, other than to stay with grandma for a couple days. He was definitely a different child when he came home and very appreciative for the opportunity.
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