WASHINGTON, D.C. – Partners of the Americas is pleased to announce the launch of the latest Innovation Fund competition in partnership with Cementos Progreso and the Department of State. The 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund is the Department’s signature hemispheric-wide education initiative. The Innovation Fund is the trusted mechanism that creates enduring links ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 17 May, 2019 | Topics: Press Releases, U.S. & Honduras | Tags: assistance, education, entrepreneurship
The U.S. Embassy is proud to announce the 2017 cohort from Honduras for the
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Professional Fellows Program . The YLAI program supports the United States’ commitment to increase trade and investment in the region and, in the words of Vice President Mike Pence, “bring even more of our business culture of entrepreneurship and innovation all across Latin America ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 2 October, 2017 | Topics: Education, Featured Event | Tags: education, entrepreneurship, scholarships, YLAI
A Digital Path to Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Latin America – 2018 We are currently accepting applications for this program. To apply click
here . In 2018, the International Center for Journalists will continue to expand its network of digital journalists, technologists and media entrepreneurs from Latin America as part of the “Digital Path to Entrepreneurship ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 30 May, 2017 | Topics: Education, Public Affairs, Scholarships and Exchanges, Study in the U.S. | Tags: education, entrepreneurship, exchanges, scholarships, science, technology
TEGUCIGALPA – The number of Honduran students enrolled in U.S. higher education increased 12.8 percent, to 1,985, according to the 2016 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange released yesterday, the greatest percentage increase for all of Mexico and Central America. Honduras sends more bright promising students to the U.S. than any other country in ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 15 November, 2016 | Topics: Education, Official Reports, Press Releases | Tags: education, Open Doors, YLAI
SAN PEDRO SULA – The First Annual Congress of the Honduran English Language Teachers Association, HELTA-Honduras TESOL, took place at the Centro Cultural Sampedrano on November 19-21, 2015. The conference was the result of a project submitted through the Department of State’s Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund by a group of Honduran alumni. The project competed ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 23 November, 2015 | Topics: Education, English Language Learning, Press Releases | Tags: education
TEGUCIGALPA – In an event to commemorate International Education Week, U.S. Ambassador James D. Nealon praised the benefits of studying abroad, and noted that once again, Honduras is in first place in Central America in sending students to study at U.S. colleges and universities. Ambassador Nealon participated in the release of the 2015 “Open Doors” ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 16 November, 2015 | Topics: Education, Press Releases, Scholarships and Exchanges | Tags: education, scholarships
TEGUCIGALPA – On November 7, 2015, Public Affairs Officer Eric Turner was the keynote speaker at a graduation ceremony for 68 students of the English Access Microscholarship Program at the Instituto Hondureno de Cultura Interamericana (IHCI) in Comayaguela, M.D.C. This was the third cohort of Access students graduating from IHCI. At the ceremony, 68 students ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 10 November, 2015 | Topics: Education, Press Releases, Scholarships and Exchanges | Tags: education, scholarships
SAN PEDRO SULA – Hundreds of sampedranos came to the Centro Cultural Sampedrano (CCS) on October 22, 2015, to officially open CCS’ renovated Benjamin Franklin Public Library. The opening ceremony was part of a week of the cultural center’s sixtieth anniversary celebrations. The Department of State’s Information Resource Officer for Mexico and Central America Laura ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 23 October, 2015 | Topics: American Spaces, Education, Press Releases, Science & Tech, U.S. & Honduras | Tags: American Spaces, culture, education
TEGUCIGALPA – Students from UNITEC, along with students from Western New England University and Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, collectively Team MASSCA (Massachusetts and Central America), won the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015 in the category of Affordability. Eight UNITEC students were co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa to travel to Irvine, California ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 16 October, 2015 | Topics: Education, Press Releases, Science & Tech | Tags: education, youth
TEGUCIGALPA – The U.S. Embassy hosted acclaimed muralist and State Department Cultural Envoy, Michelle Ortiz, for a week-long community mural project. Through a grant given by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Ortiz worked with members of the Colonia Estados Unidos neighborhood in Tegucigalpa to create a mural that highlights ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 15 April, 2015 | Topics: Art & Culture, Culture, Press Releases | Tags: arts, culture, education, youth
TEGUCIGALPA – The U.S. Embassy hosted acclaimed muralist and State Department Cultural Envoy, Michelle Ortiz, for a week-long community mural project. Ortiz, through a grant given by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, worked with members of the Colonia 21 de Febrero neighborhood in Tegucigalpa to create a mural that ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 27 March, 2015 | Topics: Art & Culture, Culture, Press Releases, U.S. & Honduras | Tags: arts, culture, education, youth
TEGUCIGALPA – Ambassador James Nealon and Guillermo Bueso, Executive Director for Banco Atlantida, announced today the first call for applications to the Fulbright – Banco Atlantida Scholarships, which will allow for young Honduran professionals to study at U.S. universities. Banco Atlantida is providing US$ 600,000 to fund up to six scholarships over the next three ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 27 February, 2015 | Topics: Ambassador, Education, Press Releases, Scholarships and Exchanges | Tags: education, scholarships, youth
TEGUCIGALPA – Hundreds of eager comic book fans lined up on November 22 and 23 to receive free hand drawn pictures of their favorite superheroes, as part of the U.S. Embassy’s participation in the annual Megacon in Honduras. Ambassador James Nealon welcomed two professional comic book artists, Tom Lyle and Rashad Doucet from the Savannah ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 28 November, 2014 | Topics: Art & Culture, Culture, Education, English Language Learning, Press Releases, Study in the U.S. | Tags: arts, culture, education, youth
TEGUCIGALPA – The 2014 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange released today finds the number of number of Honduran students enrolled in U.S. higher education increased by 16 percent this year, to an all-time high of 1,756. Honduras sends more bright promising students to the U.S. than any other country in Central America –more ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 17 November, 2014 | Topics: Education, Press Releases, Study in the U.S., U.S. & Honduras | Tags: education, youth
TEGUCIGALPA – For generations, the Pan-American Agricultural School – Zamorano has taught promising students the latest in the agricultural and environmental sciences, and contributed greatly to the sustainable agricultural development in Honduras and across the region. As part of its support for this important institution, the U.S. Government has awarded a new US$ 711,500 grant ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa | 7 November, 2014 | Topics: Education, Environment, Press Releases | Tags: assistance, education, environment
