Ukrainian students take tests to apply for the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program that would enable them to attend a local high school in the United States while staying with a host family.
Mariya Tytarenko, a Lviv-based journalist and poet, remembers her time as a Fulbright scholar and assistant professor at the Pennsylvania State University in 2008 less for the knowledge she acquired and more for the connections she made.
What shocked Tytarenko most was how these connections led to constant new growth opportunities.