Global Connect

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Image List:

• Image 1: Chelly Venegas, a UCI senior in international studies and Global Connect intern, offers positive feedback on a student paper at Laguna Hills High School, which has hosted the innovative program since its start.
• Image 2: Global Connect intern Rose Mary Garcia, an international studies senior at UCI, checks on the progress of a student's paper at Laguna Hills High School. Principal Sean Boulton says the program "helps us achieve our goal of creating better global citizens."
• Image 3: UCI psychology senior Joseph Marquez reviews a paper in ninth-grade teacher Yoleisy Avila's Global Connect class. The program "really changes my students," Avila says. "It shows them how issues halfway around the world impact their lives here."
• Image 4: High school student Priyal Shah listens attentively to a Global Connect intern's advice on how to craft an exemplary research paper. The yearlong international studies course covers such topics as climate change, terrorism, mass media, and technology in a global society.
• Image 5: Global Connect intern Chelly Venegas addresses a small group of Laguna Hills High School freshmen. Principal Sean Boulton says the program "has allowed us to better prepare our students for a lifetime of learning, growth and adaptation to warp-speed world change."