Yalies use their spring break to do all kinds of exciting things. Check out some highlights!
Nicaragua: Reach Out Nicaragua is a twelve-day trip that offers students a cultural and historical immersion into the country. This year, Yalies worked in Estelí with a group of young urban artists from the art collective atl in conjunction with the Estelí Instituto de Arte Popular to design and erect a socially conscious mural in the city—the mural capital of Nicaragua. Photo: Ersla Nicaragua
Citizen University: Some students attended a Citizen University national conference in Seattle exploring how America defines a sense of national identity and cohesion in an age of inequality and demographic flux. Photo: Lelina '18
Spizzwinks: The Yale Spizzwinks (?), America’s first and oldest underclassman a cappella group, toured China to perform a unique blend of sweet harmony and tongue-in-cheek humor. Photo: Donovan '18
Yale-China: A group of Yalies traveled to Hong Kong to participate in a Yale-China cultural exchange program, speaking at a symposium on the subject of National Identity and Citizenship in America. Photo: Maddie '17
Sicily: Students in a class on global tectonics traveled to Sicily to further their study of the architecture of continents and oceans, detailed geology of lithospheric plate margins, and mountain chains. Photo: Phillip '16