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    YYGS Solving Global Challenges (Session Offering)

    YYGS Solving Global Challenges (Session Offering)

    Details

    • Listing Type: Summer Programs
    • Program Delivery: Residential
    • Destination: United States
    • Provided By: College
    • Session Start: June, July, August
    • Session Length: Two Weeks
    • Entering Grade: 10th, 11th
    • Gender: Coed
    • Category: Academic
    • Sub-Categories: Debate, Law, Politics and Diplomacy, Gifted, History
    • Selective: Yes
    • Ages: 16, 17, 18
    • Minimum Cost: $3,000 - $6,999
    • Career Clusters: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, Human Services
    • Credit Awarded: No
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    Overview

    Yale Young Global Scholars invites students from over 150 countries and all 50 U.S. states to spend two weeks at Yale University attending an academic session of their choice.

    Solving Global Challenges (SGC) focuses on innovative and cross-disciplinary approaches to solving the greatest challenges facing the global community in the 21st century.

    Session Snapshot:

    Using an interdisciplinary approach, students work towards developing solutions to issues with a global impact, focusing heavily on the 17 key challenges identified in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These wide-ranging topics include global health, gender equality, poverty alleviation, art in protest, environmental sustainability, and green technologies. 

    This session gives students the tools to translate between technical knowledge and in-practice implications. SGC draws on a multitude of academic disciplines, from STEM to social sciences to the humanities and the arts. Students will practice skills in critical analysis, problem solving, and creativity as they explore and brainstorm innovative and sustainable solutions to a wide array of contemporary social, economic, and environmental problems.

    Sample Seminar Offerings:

    • Food as Political Will and Policy Pressure
    • Religion, Ecology, and Environmental Activism for a Dying Planet
    • Sustainability and Privilege: How are They Related?
    • Climate Refugees: Migration Ethics for Environmental Apocalypse
    • Structures of Inequality in the 21st Century
    • Fast Fashion, Consumer Ethics, and Global Supply Chains

    Is SGC a Good Fit for Me?

    If you are intrigued by any of the following questions, then this session is a great choice:

    How can we design sustainable cities? • If feasible, should we edit human genomes? • What are the most effective poverty alleviation strategies and how do we implement them? • Should artificial intelligence be used to solve human problems? • What makes human intelligence different from artificial intelligence? • How do we balance environmental protections with economic development?

    Program Location:

    YYGS will host residential sessions for Summer 2024. Please visit our website for updated details regarding COVID-19 policies.

    Cost and Session Information

    Financial Aid/Scholarships:

    YYGS provides $3 Million USD in need-based financial aid to both domestic and international students that covers partial- or full-tuition discounts (up to 100% of tuition), as well as scholarships that cover travel assistance.

    Applicants are encouraged to apply by the Early Action deadline for a discounted application fee. If the fee poses a financial burden, students can submit a fee waiver to reduce their application fee to $0 USD.