Applications for Connexpedition 2024 are open now through February 11, 2024.


Thank you for your interest in our program. Before you begin your application, please review the below information in detail with your family to understand our program structure, costs, and application procedures. Once you have done so, download our application packet at the bottom of the page.

+ 2024 Program Information

Application and Interviews
Each year we look for mature and personable individuals who display a passion for service, interest in intercultural learning, and desire for personal growth and leadership development. Connexpedition members are selected following an application and interview process that is designed to help our staff understand your strengths as a teacher, a team player, and a leader.

  • Applications are open from January 1, 2024 through February 11, 2024

  • Online Group Interviews: January 26 through February 17, 2024

  • Decisions via email: Delivered by February 20, 2024

Orientation and Training
When you have been selected to join this year’s program, you must first attend the mandatory orientation session to prepare for the 3 online lessons you will be teaching from April through June.

In addition to the orientation, you will also participate in monthly training sessions to prepare you for the service trip in July. At these training sessions, you will develop, with your team, a comprehensive English language curriculum for middle school students.

  • Mandatory Orientation: March 3, 2024

  • Training: March 2024 through June 2024

  • Please review the training schedule in the Program Application Packet

Online Volunteer Service
After embarking on the service trip to Taiwan in the summer, you will continue to meet your students online in the fall. There will be one training session in September to prepare you for teaching online lessons. In small groups, you will design and lead 10 online lessons with your students to help build confidence in their English speaking and listening.

  • Online Volunteer Service: September 2024 through November 2024

  • Please review the Program Application Packet for more detailed information

Summer Service Trip
You will be assigned to one of five volunteer teams. Each team serves a unique municipality, region, or school. With your teammates, you will host a two-week English language summer camp and instruct classes of about twenty students. Our camps and classes are designed around the core principle that English learning can be fun and exciting. We hope you will employ interactive activities and engaging teaching methods in the classroom to create unforgettable experiences with your students.

  • Summer Service Trip: June 27, 2024 through July 13, 2024

+ Qualifications

Applicants must meet the following qualifications:

  • Applicants must reside within the San Francisco Bay Area and be able to travel to in-person orientation and training sessions.
  • Applicants must be currently enrolled in grades 9-12 at the time of application.
  • Applicants must be a holder of a passport eligible for a visa (or visa-exempt) that allows them to stay in Taiwan for the duration of the entire program.
  • Applicants must be able to demonstrate an intermediate to advanced proficiency in Mandarin Chinese during the interview process.
  • Applicants are preferred to have prior leadership experience, experience working with younger children, and demonstrated interest in service-learning/volunteering.
  • Applicants must show a high degree of competency in the following skills or display the following qualities: strong aptitude for teaching, maturity and professionalism, public speaking, leadership, teamwork, punctuality.


+ Travel Information

Flight to Taiwan: June 26, 2024 (arrives June 27, 2024 morning)
You may choose to travel earlier to Taiwan and meet us in Taiwan on June 27, 2024

Volunteer Trip Begins: Thursday, June 27, 2024

Volunteer Trip Ends: Saturday, July 13, 2024
You may choose to remain in Taiwan after the program ends on July 13, 2024


+ 2024 Program Cost

Non-refundable application fee: $40

Refundable deposit: $200 (Returned after completion of training and service trip)

Program fee: $585 (Due by first training)

You are responsible for the following expenses:

  • Accommodations and travel prior to June 27, 2024 and after July 13, 2024
  • Airfare
  • Any personal expenditures
  • Medical insurance, travel insurance
  • Emergency medical care
  • Transportation within the United States