The application deadline for Connexpedition 2025 has been EXTENDED until January 18, 2025, at 11:59 PM
(Updated 1/9/2025)


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.

+ 2025 Program Information

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

  • Applications are open from December 22, 2024 through January 11, 2025 (Update: extended until January 18, 2025)

  • Online group interviews: January 11 through January 25, 2025

  • Decisions via email: February 2, 2025

Orientation and Training
When selected to join this year’s program, the first training/orientation is mandatory. There will be a total of 7 trainings to prepare you for the service trip in June and the online lessons throughout the year. At these trainings, you and your team will develop a comprehensive English language curriculum for middle school students.

  • Mandatory Orientation (Training 1): February 16, 2025

  • Training: February 2025 through May 2025

  • Please review the training schedule in the Program Application Packet

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 28, 2025 through July 12, 2025

Online Volunteer Service
Our program also provides online English lessons before and after the 2-week summer camp. You will teach 4 online lessons before the trip and 5 online lessons after the trip. In partners, you will design and lead online lessons with your students to help build confidence in their English speaking and listening.

  • Online Volunteer Service: April 2025 through November 2025

  • Please review the Program Application Packet for more detailed information

+ 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 27, 2025 (arrives June 28, 2025 morning)
You may choose to travel earlier to Taiwan and meet us in Taiwan on June 28, 2025

Volunteer Trip Begins: Saturday, June 28, 2025

Volunteer Trip Ends: Saturday, July 12, 2025
You may choose to remain in Taiwan after the program ends on July 12, 2025


+ 2025 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 28, 2025 and after July 12, 2025
  • Airfare
  • Any personal expenditures
  • Medical insurance, travel insurance
  • Emergency medical care
  • Transportation within the United States