All about FLEX! On Thursday, Sep 30, we want to share with you all the benefits the FLEX program provides and answer your questions.

When: September 30, 4 pm
Where: Zoom | Facebook

FLEX дастурига аризалар қабули давом этмоқда!🇺🇸🇺🇿

Даъвогарлар аризани мобил қурилмадан ёки компютердан фойдаланган ҳолда интернет орқали топширишлари мумкин.
FLEX дастурида қатнашиш гарчи иштирокчилар тест синовларига шахсан келмасалар ҳам аввалгидай учта қатъий босқичдан иборат.

📄 1-тур: Аризани онлайн топшириш босқичи. Ушбу турда онлайн ариза топширилади ва 3 та мавзуда иншо ёзилади. Ариза топшириш бошлагандан кейин 10 КУН ичида топширилиши керак (Масалан: агар ариза топшириш 5 октябр куни бошланган бўлса, ариза ва иншолар 15 октябргача топширилиши шарт).

📄 2-тур: Онлайн ариза топширгандан сўнг, талабалар эмэйл орқали инглиз тили бўйича онлайн тестда қатнашишга таклиф қилинади. Эмэйл ариза топширилгандан кейин 24 соат ичида келади.

📄 3-тур: Учинчи, охирги босқич синовлари ноябрь ойида бошланади. Бу турда суҳбат, иншолар, анкета тўлдириш ва инглиз тили бўйича яна бир тест мавжуд. Ушбу босқичга ўтган талабалар билан Америка Кенгашларининг ўз мамлакатларидаги ваколатхонаси боғланиб, батафсил маълумотлар беради.

FLEX dasturi 2022-2023 танловига хужжат тошириш учун қўлланма UZ

FLEX - АҚШ Давлат департаментининг ҳукумат томонидан молиялаштириладиган дастуридир. FLEX танлови белгиланган асосий талабларга жавоб берадиган барча ўқувчилар учун очиқ. Онлайн ариза бериш учун https://ais.americancouncils.org/flex сайтига киринг. Аризаларни қабул қилиш 2021-йил 15-октябрда тўхтатилади.

Қабул қилиш мезонлари: FLEX стипендияси танлови қуйидаги талабларга жавоб берадиган ўқувчилар учун бепул ва шаффоф ўтказилади. Дастурда имконияти чекланган ўқувчилар ҳам иштирок этишлари мумкин. Ҳар йили тахминан 20 нафар ногирон ўқувчи FLEX финалчилари сафидан жой олади. Уларга дастурнинг бошқа иштирокчилари билан бир хил талаблар қўйилади (Фақат йош чегараси улар учун 2004-йил 14-февралдан). Ўқувчилар дастурга фақат бир йилда бир марта мурожаат қилишлари мумкин.

Дастурда иштирок этиш учун ариза топширувчилар:

1. 2005-йил, 1-январдан, 2007-йил 15-июл оралиғида туғилганлар бўлишлари;
2. Дастурга ариза бериш пайтида, ариза топшираётган мамлакатдаги мактабнинг 9-10-11 синф ўқувчилари бўлишлари ёки лицей/коллежнинг 1-, 2- босқичида ўқиётган ва дарсларга тўлиқ қатнашаётган бўлишлари;
3. Инглиз тилида яхши сўзлаша олишлари;
4. Яхши ва аъло баҳоларга ўқиётган бўлишлари;
5. АҚШ визаси талабларига жавоб бера олишлари;
6. Ўзбекистон фуқароси бўлишлари ва халқаро паспорт олиш хуқуқига эга бўлишлари керак;

Қўшимча маълумот учун Америка Кенгашларининг Тошкент шахридаги офиси электрон манзилига хат ёзинг:

📩 flex.uz@americancouncils.org
📌 Телеграм: @accels

FLEX дастурида қатнашинг ва дунёни кашф этинг! 🇺🇸🇺🇿

Happy Teachers' Day to all teachers of Uzbekistan!
Please accept our immense respect and best wishes!
The ESN team ❤️

Improving English Language for Uzbekistan’s Tourism

As the tourism industry rapidly grows in Uzbekistan, there is increasing need for English proficiency. Through the Central Asia University Partnerships Program (UniCEN), administered by American Councils for International Education and funded by the U.S. State Department through the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, the University of Wyoming (UW) partnered with three Uzbekistan universities to improve English language learning for the tourism sector. Beginning in September 2020, UW assisted Bukhara State University with methods to improve grading rubrics, performance measures, syllabus design, and how to launch student clubs for English. UW faculty supported Tashkent State University of Economics adoption of the credit hour system and reviewed their English curricula. Working with the Samarkand Tourism Academy, UW created a library of videos, links, and activities for English-language learners.

To enhance English as a Second Language in Uzbekistan, UW created a four-part webinar series on professional development, with an additional 10 hours of language support classes. Uzbekistani professors reported that their understanding of university systems and policies greatly increased. UW professors developed ways to make ESL lessons more applicable to the geographical and cultural landscape in Uzbekistan. As a result of the partnership, UW and its partners created an ESL for tourism textbook to improve English teaching and further the development of English within the tourism in sector Uzbekistan for years to come.

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Happy Teacher’s Day 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏼‍🏫!

✨ We thank every teacher for your hard work, for enlightening us, motivating us and helping us to be who we are today!

🇺🇸 Maftuna Ochilova, FLEX alumna 2009, had a chance to share about Uzbekistan during Future Farmers Association (FFA) class at El Diamante High School in Visalia, California. Maftuna is grateful for the year spent at US High School and sends her warm wishes to all teachers.

☺️ Our sincere gratitude to every teacher~

Join EducationUSA Online Session 
Tuesday, October 5 at 3 pm
All You Need to Know About FLEX
Join Zoom Meeting @ https://cutt.ly/NEJxxpS

In May 2021, Sarvinoz Ungboyeva was a student who had completed an English proficiency test and ready to graduate from Uzbekistan State World Languages University. But she wanted to expand her academic background and talent in a practical setting and decided to apply to the Young Professional Internships Program (YPIP). “It is always challenging to get out your comfort zone,” Sarvinoz reflects. “I got a strong motivation for working on myself.”

Sarvinoz soon began her 8-week journey as an intern at Bureau Veritas, a firm specialized in testing, inspection, and certification, where she worked in project management and gained work ethic, digital communications, and intercultural skills. Working with experienced colleagues, the internship program helped Sarvinoz plan for her future career and gave her a sense of control and hope. By the end of the internship, Sarvinoz created a presentation on her internship experience that reflected her newly found confidence and professional skills.

After the internship, she plans to apply for a master's degree abroad. “The Young Professional Internships Program was a game changer in my life.”

Good luck, Sarvinoz!

Do you know what reverse culture shock is? Or maybe what it feels like to live with an American Host family and attend a U.S. high school?

If not really, then please watch this video of our FLEX alumna who shares her amazing experience she had while on program in Texas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHxLWxfT0yQ

Only 10 days left until the deadline! Apply to FLEX!

❗️❗️❗️❗️ATTENTION❗️❗️❗️❗️
This is the last year for 11th grade and 2nd year lyceum/college students to apply to the FLEX program.
Starting September 2022, FLEX Uzbekistan will be accepting applications only from 9th and 10th grade and 1st year lyceum/college students.
📌To apply for FLEX program, please visit the ais.americancouncils.org/flex
❓Please read about Frequently Asked Questions Q&A
📝Please read Step by Step Application instructions on how to fill the FLEX Application

Would you like to know more about FLEX and how finalists spend their year in the USA? 🇺🇸
Would you like to ask questions from finalists❓
📌Then join our online session where our FLEX alumni 🙎‍♂️🙍‍♀️🙍‍♀️ will share their stories about the FLEX exchange year.
When: October 7, Thursday
Where: ZOOM | Facebook

Advancing Hands-On STEM Education

Uzbekistan’s leadership has outlined a policy to expand project-based teaching methods, students’ entrepreneurship skills and transform universities into centers for the development of education and science. Through the Central Asia University Partnerships Program (UniCEN), administered by American Councils for International Education and funded by the U.S. State Department through the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, professors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Samarkand State University are sharing effective methods for hands-on science education for their students.

Dr. Michael Short, Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, and Dr. Akmal Safarov, researcher at the Nuclear Physics laboratory at Samarkand State, are committed to facilitating new hands-on experiences for students in the classroom. As a first step, the MIT professor sent Geiger counter kits for 20 students at Samarkand State to assemble. Using a mobile app and open-source mapping tools online, students in Uzbekistan collected everyday samples for analysis – from banana peels to toenails to archaeological samples.

MIT played a critical role in the development of laboratory noscripts, faculty, and student guidebooks for Samarkand State University’s new innovative nuclear electronics laboratory, which was recently equipped and became fully operational. Approximately 170 bachelor’s and 20 master’s students are using the noscripts to provide a hands-on approach to learn nuclear physics.

During a visit to SSU in August 2021, Professor Michael Short visited the newly established laboratory of nuclear electronics, supported by the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) and MIT through UniCEN. There, he demonstrated the operation of Geiger counters to lab staff members and doctoral students from the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, trained laboratory personnel and students, and helped to identify 3D scanning and printing equipment for expansion.

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