PDO Heidi Arola and former Youth Ambassadors Everaldo Alves (Belém) and Isabella Coutinho (Espírito Santo)

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Rio de Janeiro –  On June 14, nine Youth Ambassadors from around the country came to the U.S. Consulate for a pre-departure orientation and visa interviews in preparation for their participation in intensive English summer programs at prestigious institutions in the United States. Public Affairs Officer Erik Holm-Olsen (U.S. Consulate, RJ), Country Public Affairs Officer Adele Ruppe (U.S. Embassy, Brasilia) and Public Diplomacy Officer Heidi Arola welcomed them with brief remarks about the program's importance and the benefits it may bring to each participant's life. The students all received full scholarships for their participation through support from the Fulbright Education USA Office, local private sponsors, and partial tuition waivers from the institutions.  The winners of 2010 summer courses scholarships  and respective educational institutions are as follows:

• Camila Sanches - Recife, Pernambuco  - Cushing Academy
  
  
• Bruna Lobato - Parnamirim, Rio Grande do Norte  - Exeter Phillips Academy
  
  
• Felipe Storch de Oliveira - Rio Branco, Acre and Ricardo Borges - Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul - Phillips Andover Academy
  
  
• Ellen Deuter Barbosa - Santa Isabel, São Paulo; Everaldo Alves - Belém, Pará;  Jonatha Reis - Salvador, Bahia and Samuel Oliveira - Campina Grande, Paraíba - University of California – Irvine
  
  
• Isabella Coutinho - Vitória, Espírito Santo - University of California – Riverside
  
  

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Public Affairs Officer Erik Holm-Olsen (U.S. Consulate, RJ), Country Public Affairs Officer Adele Ruppe (U.S. Embassy, Brasilia) and Public Diplomacy Officer Heidi Arola welcomed participants of the Summer Program.

Danilo Marcondes Filho, Fulbright Educational Advisor; Rita Moriconi, Regional English Teaching Coordinator and Adam Singerman from Instituto Liderança.

Photos: U.S. ConGen-RJ

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