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St. Mary's Youth Cultural Exchange - SMYCE

Name: St. Mary's Youth Cultural Exchange - SMYCE
Address: Hollywood, MD, 20636, US
Telephone: +13014818529
Price range: $
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St. Mary's Youth Cultural Exchange - SMYCE

SMYCE is a non-profit 501c(3) and formed primarily to provide educational outreach opportunities. The focused age group for SMYCE is 7th- 8th grade students.
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SMYCE is a non-profit 501c(3) and formed primarily to provide educational outreach opportunities by joining together different cultures from different countries through an international partnership. This opportunity offers a middle school age child the opportunity to directly experience life, cultural similarities, and differences in a different country which is something that TV, internet, or tex

tbooks just cannot offer. Often times, this experience broadens their perspective regarding cultural similarities and differences. For many of these children this is their first time out of their country and away from their immediate family. SMYCE provides the unique experience of hosting international students primarily from Milan, Italy. In addition to hosting Italian students, the exchange is reciprocated when students from St. Mary’s County then travel to Milan, Italy. The children actively engage in a welcoming school environment and actively spend time with their "new" host family outside of the school day. The host family is the key factor in showing their international guest what life is like in their country. The host family is the tour guide outside of the school day and each child sees and experiences more in ten days than any guided tour excursion and staying in a hotel will ever offer. They are immersed in the Italian culture and attend school daily by pairing with their “Italian brother” or “Italian sister” for 10 days. Providing this opportunity does presents a financial burden but mostly in the form of airfare cost. For some deserving students, their financial situation could prevent the opportunity to participate. Your generous donation by participating in this fun football pool will allow SMYCE to assist many deserving students with an opportunity of traveling to Italy. Funds will also help with incurred cost when Italian students arrive in St. Mary’s County. Each trip is unique (currently entering 8th year) because the relationship that often develops between families goes beyond just a sight-seeing, cultural excursion, and learning trip for the child. With today’s technology, many global friendships continue to grow well beyond the 10 day experience. This annual trip is continuously made possible by generous friends like you and supporters of SMYCE. I also give much thanks to many unselfish teachers and host families that continually give countless hours of their time both home and abroad. SMYCE is partnered with Collegio San Carlo in Milan, Italy which is a Pre-K thru 12th grade school.

04/16/2024

Victoire 2-0 des U14 contre Soissons 🖤💙 !

Mention spéciale à Caleb, jeune footballeur américain qui a passé la semaine avec nous suite à un échange franco-américain avec le collège d’un de nos U14 (en jaune à gauche). 🇺🇸

04/15/2024

The last few hours at school. The rain kept us from going to a lake with our French and Spanish friends, but we made the best of it by heading to a gym for some fun and games!

04/15/2024

Students created artwork with their palms painted on a large pieces if papers to hang in their schools. If you don’t see all of the American kids- they didn’t listen to the directions😁

04/15/2024

Monday morning- April 15th- students met with their hosts and students from Spain this morning for breakfast!

04/12/2024

Friday, April 12th!

04/11/2024

Thursday, April 11th - afternoon museum visit-

04/11/2024

Thursday, April 11th! Classes mid morning! Students participated German, French, Spanish, PE, Photosynthesis, body percussion, algebra with the Kahoot game and English!

04/11/2024

Thursday. April 11, 2024! Our day began working in the primary classes on a presentation about CPCS and some games played in English! It was a lot of fun!

04/11/2024

Wednesday, April 10th was a day off for most students. Some of the things they did with their host families were: Cathedral of Amiens, Parc Asterix, village of Gerberoy, bakeries, ice skating, visiting lakes, zip lining and swimming. I’m sure there were more things, but these are the pictures and information that some kids sent to us!

04/09/2024

Scavenger hunt in the city of Beauvais! Rain or shine, we do scavenger hunts! more pictures to come from other groups!!!

04/09/2024

Wonderful Lunch!

04/09/2024

PE class

04/09/2024

Day 1 - Classes of Physics, English, Computer Science

04/09/2024

1st full day at College of Notre Dame. First up…breakfast and team building activities

04/08/2024

We arrived in Paris at 8 am local time. We are now at the school and the kids are mingling with each other, getting to know each other again! Flight was good!

04/07/2024

France 2024 Trip begins now!!!!

11/07/2023

Who wants to host Eleonora? A sporty, studious girl who can't wait to meet you! Contact me for more details
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10/09/2023

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03/19/2023

No.15 Saints take down No.18 Lions 🔥

Carly Tepel led Flagler women's lacrosse with 5️⃣ goals this afternoon to outscore Saint Leo 1️⃣8️⃣-1️⃣1️⃣💪

🔜The Saints are back at it on Tuesday at 1 p.m.🥍

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02/22/2023

HOST FAMILIES NEEDED FOR HIGH SCHOOL EXCHANGE STUDENTS!!Do you think your imperfect family is not a “good fit” to become a host family?Do you think your children are “too young” to host a high school international student for the school year? YOU ARE WRONG!I am currently in need of normal, imperfect, crazy schedule, Netflix watching, great families to host one of our typically normal, acne inflicted, thoroughly over-excited to come to the States, English speaking teens.If you think you are a too busy, over scheduled, or a "things are crazy around here" type of family, we want you! Our students want a typical American home to be a part of and trust me; the overscheduled and loving family makes a perfect fit!Please consider hosting today. For more information on becoming a volunteer host family message me at (301)481-8529! Or click on my page for more information: https://efexchangeyear.org/iec/karen-antonacio-oliver/

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02/14/2023

Please text me for more information! 301-481-8529

02/06/2023

HOST FAMILIES NEEDED!!
I am currently in need of normal, imperfect, not rich, pizza night, 🍕, crazy schedule📆 ,Netflix watching, 📺hand me down wearing, 👖👕👚great family (or plural) 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👪👩‍👦👨‍👧to host one of our typically normal, acne inflicted, 🤩thoroughly over-excited to come to the States, 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏼‍♂️🗣 English speaking teens.🇧🇴🇧🇷🇦🇽🇧🇶🇬🇬
If you think you are a too busy, over scheduled, 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦⏰or a "things are crazy around here" type of family, 🙌👍We want you! Our students want a typical American family to be a part of and trust me, you are it!!👍
Please consider hosting today. We have students who need a host family and are waiting to hear 👂🏼they you have selected one. 🥰😍😘
For more information on becoming a volunteer host family message me at (301)481-8529!
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We arrived in Paris at 8 am local time. We are now at the school and the kids are mingling with each other, getting to know each other again! Flight was good!