Three Brookwood High School students and two North Gwinnett High School students are headed to Germany in the Summer of 2024 as Halle Foundation Scholarship recipients. The fully paid, three-week German immersion program will offer students an opportunity to make intercultural connections and completely engage in the German language and culture. The German III students will be taking AP German during the 2024-25 school year.

 

Brookwood High School Award Recipients:

Otto Paul-Tafur, 11th grade

Kyle Sendagire, 11th grade

Minhal Rizvi, 11th grade

German teacher: Mirela Kimbrough

 

North Gwinnett High School Award Recipient:

Joseph Farkas, 11th grade

Elisha Mooney, 10th grade

German teacher: Rebecca Mooney

 

            The Halle Foundation is an independent, public grant-making charity established in 1986 by Claus M. Halle, a German native who lived in the U.S. for about one-half of his adult life. The foundation seeks to promote understanding, knowledge, and friendship between the people of Germany, as seen in its European context, and those of the United States. To this end, the Foundation supports initiatives in the fields of culture, science, technology, commerce, language, scholarship, and international relations. Claus Halle “observed and concluded that greater knowledge and better understanding will lead to increased friendship between the two peoples and improved relations between the two nations, thereby helping the cause of world peace.” Determined to work at increasing such knowledge and understanding, Claus Halle established The Halle Foundation.