Gap Year Education Programs
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Providing gap year programs to 5 continents and 19 countries around the world. Your journey awaits.
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The CDE Journey
Passion-inspired living.
Extending to 5 continents and 19 countries, Carpe Diem Education offers expertly designed gap year programs for students ages 17-22. Our programs challenge perspectives, embolden critical thinking, and inspire a greater sense of self through enhanced global perspectives. Balancing hard work with fun-filled adventure; finding laughter in the midst of serious inquiry; we discover the depths of our humanity together.
We believe that students learn best when fully immersed and engaged in local communities, languages, and cultures. Our small student groups travel off the beaten path to provide authentic cultural exchange, meaningful challenge, and transformative experience.
Reflections Across the World
Follow us on our journey.
Join us as we explore the world and ourselves. Our student-written blog is a window into the Carpe Diem Education experience. Blogs are typically written once a week while on semester. Every student has the chance to blog which allows for variety of experiences, interpretations and personalities. The personalities in the group come to the fore and paint a multi-faceted picture of what happens when a group of young adults starts to find its own character and flow. So jump in and see what’s beyond the horizon during a Carpe Diem Education gap year program.
#fbf to hanging out with Menzie the wallaby (a.k.a. the resident “house dog”) at Sheoak Ridge Nature Reserve in the rainforests of northeast Australia. We miss you, Menzie!
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Still a couple spots left on the Fall 2019 Environmental Conservation and Leadership program in the South Pacific. Apply now to reserve your spot!
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"What I love most about Carpe Diem students is how attuned and grateful they are to the kindness of strangers. You can see it on their faces and in their postures when they recount how their host mothers took care of them when they were sick, or when a shop owner engages in sincere conversation about where they're from, or when a local contact takes genuine interest in who they are as people. The fact that humans around the world are more alike than they are different and share a common desire to love and be loved is a lesson I learn again and again from our students."
- Sheldon Ito, Overseas Educator
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CENTRAL AMERICA IS ALMOST FULL! Apply now at carpediemeducation.org/apply-now to reserve your spot!
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Bridging the continents of North and South America, Central America is a land of immense environmental and cultural diversity. Lush tropical rainforests, towering volcanoes, steep-sided mountains, and extended coastlines inspire unique cultural expression. Indigenous Mayan communities, enclaves of Garifuna and Afro-Caribbean communities, and people of mixed European ancestry invoke an atmosphere of social activism and political engagement.
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From the Sierra Madre mountains of interior Guatemala, to the sea turtle haven of the Nicoya Peninsula; from the tranquility and splendor of Lago Atitlan and her surrounding volcanoes, to the coral reefs off the coast of Roatan, Carpe Diem Education takes you to a region that is merging the complexities of socio-political realities with the hope of a more sustainable future.
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🐢 Engage in service learning with a sea turtle conservation non-profit on the Pacific shores of Costa.
🌿 Learn about sustainability, organic agriculture, and community living while working alongside indigenous Mayan coffee farmers.
🏙 Visit an architecture and design organization that is promoting innovative, intelligent, eco-friendly structures to densely populated urban areas.
👨👩👦👦 Engage in immersive Spanish classes while participating in home stays, practicing Spanish with host families, and refining your skills through individualized language lessons.
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