Thank you for applying

The team at Wisdom Culture and Education Organization would like to extend to you our greatest appreciation and gratitude for your interest in our Connexpedition program. As we mentioned to our SF Bay Area applicants, we have extremely limited space on our service trips, and we also have an extremely large pool of bright and talented applicants. As much as we would love to allow everyone the opportunity to travel to Taiwan with us, there simply just isn’t enough space.

With that said, decisions will be sent via email during the week of February 18th. We will be accepting a greater number of participants than we require as we do every year. We do this for two reasons:

Some members voluntarily drop from the program due to other summer commitments. We accept more applicants than we need to fill this gap.
We continue to evaluate participants during our training period to identify low performance indicators not present during the application process. The schools in Taiwan expect these young high school students to be English teachers, a leader in the classroom, not a simple classroom assistant. Unfortunately, participants who are deemed unfit for service in this role will be cut from the program.

Please note that not everyone will be placed in their first service location choice and not all returning applicants will be offered a position due to space limitations. With the exception of Vox Nativa participants, we will inform you of your team assignments/service locations no sooner than the third training in April. In other words, applicants who applied to NTPC, Fengzhu, or Lanyu will first be conditionally accepted as members of the Connexpedition program. Then, based on observations and evaluations made by our staff members during trainings, we will then assign participants to specific schools and service locations in April.

As always, if you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at connexpedition@wceo.org.