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Gap year programs in Costa Rica afford the opportunity to learn leadership skills and perform community service projects while living in a lush, tropical atmosphere. Explore environmental issues and wildlife conservation while traversing rain forests, mangroves, and beaches. Homestays allow students to deeply learn about culture and life in Costa Rica by interacting with locals on a daily basis. High school and college students will find the following gap programs fulfill every taste: community service, culture, and adventure.
EF Gap Semester is perfect for students who want to explore several countries, learn a language, volunteer, engage in cultural exchange, intern abroad, and develop leadership skills. Programs are accredited so students can earn college credit...(more)
Experience the world and discover your passions with EF Gap Year. Visit 10+ countries, improve your language skills, make an impact, and intern abroad. Build real-world skills, make lifelong memories, and return home a better you. For ages 18-22...(more)
The GAP Year at SOAR is designed for young adults with ADHD and LD (learning disabilities) and specializes in a unique combination of independence, adventure, and life skills instruction for young adults between the ages of 18 and 24...(more)
Pathfinder Costa Rica is a unique international experience intended to create sustainable lifestyles and growth opportunities. Using the Path-Finding guidance model, we combine your self-exploration with adventure, cultural immersion, Spanish immersion, education, and community service. Your unique experience is designed to awaken and inspire as you get ready to tackle the next phase of your life...(more)
Taking an EF Gap Year Program is not an alternative to college; it’s about preparing yourself to make the most of college—and, in many ways, the rest of your life. Our innovative experiential learning model helps students discover their goals while equipping them with the confidence and skills to get there...(more)
THE ULTIMATE STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE Invest in your dreams. Achieve fluency, see the world, expand your international network – and launch your global future. Study for 6, 9 or 11 months and start in April, June, September or January. ..(more)
Pathfinder Costa Rica uses a three-prong approach to differentiate from the average study abroad program. The Path-Finding Guidance Model, "Sustainable Lifestyles: 9 dimensions of healthy living" course and the Arenal Volcano Excursion have been designed to create space for self-care, self-exploration, and self-discovery. These three features work in tandem to create a study abroad experience with intention...(more)
We connect deeply with our global communities and travel with purpose and intention. Our students redefine what it means to embark on a meaningful gap year abroad. Learn a new language, live with a host family, and participate in a volunteer project—all while earning college credit—on a gap year or three-month semester around the world...(more)
Pacific Discovery is a global leader in experiential education, offering transformative gap year and summer programs abroad since 2001. Programs are overland journeys combining authentic immersion, meaningful service, wilderness adventure. Students leave with a deepened sense of their identity, passion, and purpose...(more)
Leap programmes are team-based and combine a unique mix of multiple locations and project opportunities within one experience, with a broad focus on global warming, climate change, conservation, community and language skills. Our in-country guides are on hand to take care of all the logistics so you hit the ground running - contributing and exploring from the moment you arrive. Average team size is about 15 and we help co-ordinate your flights so you all travel together. ..(more)
ARCC Programs has offered programs for students since 1983. ARCC Gap Semesters are an academic semester with a defined curriculum and leadership development component. Program Locations: Africa, Asia, Central America, South America, Oceania, Europe, United States. ..(more)
Whether you’ve just finished high school, are taking a break from the college classroom, or want a different challenge before launching your career, Hurricane Island Outward Bound School’s Gap Year & Semester Programs provide opportunities to acquire new skills in some of the most beautiful areas of the world...(more)
If you are looking to differentiate your resume, earn essential skills that employers value, and grow your professional network -- all from the comfort of home! -- then the API Virtual Global Internship program is for you!..(more)
Join us on an epic gap year program through Costa Rica to spot spider monkeys in the rainforests, surf the waves and relax on the tropical beaches!..(more)
API Abroad provides comprehensive gap year abroad programs for recent high school graduates. Our language and cultural immersion programs and international internship programs provide students with opportunities to learn and develop global skills in an exciting, enriching, and safe setting. ..(more)
AFS-USA offers programs for travelers who are 18 and older to study abroad. Turn wanderlust into an impactful experience! Put global learning towards your next degree, accelerate your career development, or inspire the next generation of students. You can choose from places such as Denmark, Brazil, Belgium, New Zealand, and more!..(more)
Study abroad, learn Spanish, and make new friends from around the world. On EF Language Year Abroad in Playa Tamarindo, Costa Rica allows you to spend a semester or year in one of the world's top eco-tourism destinations. The campus is in a former resort and has its own private pool. Earn transferrable college credit. ..(more)
Join our exciting 4 week road trip across Costa Rica, where you will reach places, people and wildlife that are way of the backpacking route. Your journey starts in Quepos, close to Manuel Antonio National Park where you will combine community contribution with jungle adventure, before helping with turtle conservation, working in a remote wildlife sanctuary and exploring the famous cloud forest...(more)
An immersive gap year experience combining a group travel semester and an individual volunteer placement, Latitudes Year is the full year option for students who want to go deeper in their independent travel journey. As a Latitudes Year student, you’ll spend your first semester traveling on one of our group semesters. During your second semester, you’ll have the opportunity to deepen your educational experience with an independent volunteer placement...(more)
Challenge yourself on this Central America gap year program journeying through the ancient ruins and spectacular land and seascapes of Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica...(more)
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