Interact with global leaders and other students from around the world
Six exceptional students at the Minnesota Youth Institute will be selected to represent the state of Minnesota at the three-day Global Youth Institute hosted by The World Food Prize Foundation.
The selected students and their teacher mentors will travel to Des Moines, Iowa, October 15-17 to participate in the Global Youth Institute (transportation, accommodation and meal expenses provided by the World Food Prize Foundation and the University of Minnesota).
There, they will join over 200 other outstanding high school students and teachers from across the United States and other countries to interact with Nobel and World Food Prize Laureates and the more than 600 global leaders from 65 countries attending the World Food Prize’s annual international symposium.
Travel abroad and start making a difference
By participating in the Global Youth Institute held in Iowa, students are eligible to apply for a prestigious Borlaug-Ruan International Internship, an all-expenses-paid, eight-week hands-on experience, working with world-renowned scientists and policymakers at leading research centers in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Students must be a high school junior or senior when applying for a potential internship placement.
Since 1998, over 100 Borlaug-Ruan Interns have traveled to Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Kenya, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Turkey to get a firsthand view of pressing food security and nutritional problems in poverty-stricken areas and take part in ground-breaking research.
For more information on the essay and how to participate in the Minnesota Youth Institute, contact the program coordinator Kay Ellingson by email at kellings@umn.edu or by phone at (612)624-6280.
