GLOBAL AWARENESS SEMINAR SERIES
WASHINGTON WORKSHOPS FOUNDATION
STAFF
About the Global Awareness Seminar Series
The Global Awareness Seminar Series uses educational study tours to impart global citizenship to motivated high school students.
The Series’ ultimate goal is to help students build borderless partnerships for the future. These partnerships are critical for today’s increasingly interconnected world.
Regardless of destination, each seminar builds upon the same key educational components and one-of-a-kind personal experiences.
Global Awareness travel programs also act to benefit the host country. This concept is known as global stewardship – giving back to the places visited.
Five Learning Objectives, designed to enhance 21st Century skills, further help students strengthen individual ability. These objectives are customized for each seminar:
Service – a one-day volunteer service project where students work alongside host citizens for the benefit of their destination country. Service learning provides a unique way to experience a country’s social fabric, community, and needs.
A Day in the Life – a chance to leave the beaten path and delve into the daily experiences of everyday people, including fundamentals such as local marketplaces, schools, businesses, and modes of transportation.
Environment – an opportunity for environmental stewardship without borders, including visits and in-depth explanations of how to protect each country’s unique, fragile, and biologically diverse natural habitats.
Culture – an opportunity to broaden cultural understanding by taking part in non-native practices, including recreation and ceremony to take back home.
People – an exchange one-on-one between global peers helps to share language, interests, and culture, not to mention create life-long friends.
About the Washington Workshops Foundation
Since 1967, the Washington Workshops Foundation has provided experience-based, educational travel programs to highly motivated, academically prepared, and inquisitive students from across the United States and around the world.
The majority of these programs have brought students and educators to Washington, D.C. for a more comprehensive understanding of leadership, civic education, federal government, U.S. politics, and American History.
Programs are available for junior high and high school students. Specific projects include simulation Model Congresses and internships on Capitol Hill.
Private, nonprofit, and nonpartisan in nature, the Workshops Foundation holds its headquarters in Washington, D.C. This location allows for intimate connections with the officials, entities, and organizations capable of making educational experiences in the Capital all the more unique.
Harvard Law Graduate and Founder Leo Tonkin first developed an institution dedicated to bringing American students to the center of their government over forty years ago. As then, Washington Workshops today strives to instill a better understanding of how government works with and for its citizens, especially those citizens still in school.
Staff
Karl Egloff
Director and Seminar Administrator
Global Awareness Seminar Series
Karl has spent over 12 years in the educational and adventure travel industry. After receiving a BS in Secondary Education from Montana State University-Bozeman, he taught high school social studies before beginning a career guiding and managing travel programs across the United States and around the world—focusing heavily on educational programs in Australia, China, Cuba, and New Zealand. He later received his MS in Tourism Administration from the George Washington University School of Business. With a strong academic background in both education and travel, Karl is passionate about the educational value of bringing unique travel experiences to today’s young citizens. Director of the Global Awareness Seminars, he will serve as Seminar Administrator for the 2009 seminar to China. To this trip and its participants he brings the knowledge and expertise earned over 25 separate visits to People’s Republic of China. Originally from Alaska, Karl enjoys the outdoors, travel, and spending time at home with his family in Alexandria, VA.