Students will study online, tutor and travel to Brazil

LAKEWOOD, CO – Red Rocks Community College is accepting applications for the first group of outstanding community college students who will travel to Salvador, Brazil for a four-week sponsored internship in June 2012. The program creates life-changing opportunities for U.S. community college students to participate in intensive internships in Brazil, which is now the sixth largest economy in the world.

Red Rocks Community College is one of three U.S. community colleges selected for program. Developed in partnership with US-Brazil Connect and Brazilian industry and education, selected interns will teach conversational English to Brazilian technical students, participate in an intensive program focused on Brazil’s rise and critical issues of sustainability, technology, and innovation, and help to build a movement for mutually-beneficial exchange between community colleges in the U.S. and technical schools in Brazil.

Application deadline is February 3, 2012.  Visit http://www.rrcc.edu/studyabroad/brazil.html for details and an application.  To learn more about the partner school and students in Brazil visit www.us-brasil.org.
More about Red Rocks Community College:  Since 1969 Red Rocks Community College has delivered quality education to students of all ages and backgrounds. RRCC offers more than 300 programs leading to two-year degrees or professional certificates and serves over 15,000 students per year online and at campus locations in Lakewood and Arvada. For more information, please visit rrcc.edu.