About the High School Exchange in 2015/16

In the years 2015 and 2016 the class 9b of the Realschule Balingen and students from the Milwaukee School of Languages participated in a project for high school and college students in Germany and the USA that went far beyond the traditional objectives of regular school exchanges.

The Trips

Part 1: Milwaukee goes Ballingen (Mo. October 19 - Fr. October 30, 2015)

Part 2: Ballingen goes Milwaukee (Fr. April 1 - Sat. April 16, 2016)

Pictures

What was the exchange like that year? Check out these pictures: the American Ambassador John Emerson appoints the 9b official "Ambassadors in Sneakers", the project coordinator's first impressions of Milwaukee and last, but not least, Milwaukees exchange to Ballingen, Germany.

Media Coverage

Schwarzwälder Bote, July 19, 2015: "Realschüler gehen als »Botschafter in Turnschuhen« in die USA"

Sponsors and Partners

The "High School Exchange" was developed by the German-American Institute Tuebingen (dai). It was very generously supported by the Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany, which is funded by the European Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi), as well as by a great number of other supporters:

We want to thank all of our sponsors and supporters especially: the Reinhold Beitlich Stiftung Tübingen, the BW-Bank Tübingen, the German-American Partnership Program (GAPP), the Jugendstiftung Baden-Württemberg, the Kreissparkasse Reutlingen, Freiherr von Rassler (Schloss Weitenburg), the Rotary Club Reutlingen-Tübingen Nord, the Volksbank Tübingen, the Werbeagentur Kraas & Lachmann.