Aspire by API programs offer high school students opportunities to learn and develop relevant global skills through fun, enriching community service programs in Costa Rica and China. Two-week programs are offered in both locations throughout the summer.
With Aspire by API community service programs, students will engage directly with the global community and learn useful skills with real-world applications. They will contribute to tangible improvements in other parts of the globe that seem far away at first. Through their community service work, participants will realize that other cultures and communities are not that different from their own. Their world will become significantly smaller. Students also learn about the value of teamwork and the real impact that good will and coordination can have on a local community. All the while, they will be fostering better relationships with their fellow program participants and local community while gaining international experience in an increasingly globalized world.
Mission Statement: Aspire by API is a division of Academic Programs International (API), an educational organization that has been sending university students abroad to study since 1997. Aspire by API is dedicated to providing comprehensive summer study abroad programs for high school students as well as gap year abroad programs for recent high school graduates. Our language, service, and cultural immersion programs provide students with educational opportunities to learn and develop relevant global skills in an exciting, enriching, safe, and secure setting. We aim to start each student on a path of lifelong global citizenship through participation in an Aspire program