Welcome Back FLEX Alumni 2019-2020!
You spent one year in the USA attending local high school, living in host family, and sharing Turkmen culture on American soil.
We are looking forward to hearing about your adventures, stories, and experiences you encountered during your FLEX year 2019 – 2020. Please contact us at flexalumni@americancouncilstm.org
Welcome to our FLEX Alumni family in Turkmenistan and Good Luck!
FLEX Team
American Councils
Turkmenistan
On August 27, a FLEX Alumni Coordinator from Turkmenistan organized an online seminar on Effective Time Management for FLEX alumni and American Councils staff using Google Meet platform. During the seminar, the participants were familiarized with the key elements and strategies of effective time management and discussed tips for achieving academic and career goals. The participants had an opportunity to apply gained knowledge into practice by taking part in mock-exercises, which were organized as a part of learning process. They practiced composing to-do lists, prioritizing and decomposing rules. All participants were actively engaged in the seminar discussion and had an opportunity to share best-practices with others.
When Shageldi Ovezov first attended EducationUSA events in Turkmenistan, he was very excited to learn about tuition-free colleges in the U.S. Shageldi is now a rising junior at Berea College, where he secured a full scholarship for 4 years of studies towards a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.
“Initially, it was very hard for me to navigate through the myriad of scholarship opportunities in the U.S., and I didn’t know how to choose the best-fit college. By attending the EducationUSA center in Turkmenistan, I received valuable information on how to reflect on myself better, identify and choose what’s best for me, and be a successful college applicant, which ultimately, saved a great amount of time and finances.
Shageldi has been an active student at Berea College, having started a Developer Student Clubs chapter on campus. Developer Student Clubs is a program run by Google Developers to empower university students to build technical solutions for the local problems. He is now interning at Major League Hacking, being selected as one of 150 participants out of 20,000 applicants. As an intern, Shageldi contributes to over 6 open-source software projects, which is an impactful work where more than 800,000 projects depend on the software that he contributes to.
He states: “At this point, I would like to acknowledge #EducationUSA. I was part of Turkmenabat Undergraduate Cohort Advising (UCA), a 10-month intensive college preparation program that was like no other in guiding me to get ready to study in the United States. Due to the program, I was eligible for an Opportunity Grant that covered my travel expenses all the way to Berea. I’m very grateful for the program for investing in my education”.
Instagram account of Shageldi: @shageldi_ovezov