Ten Vermont high school students will travel to Amman, Jordan in April 2006 and meet their five Jordanian and five Palestinian refugee counterparts. The 21 day exchange trip to Jordan will include supervised trips around Amman where they will observe and deconstruct media images, allowing the city's environment to serve as a living classroom. Armed with pens, paper, video cameras, and other media technology, the students will put their media education skills to work by creating video journals and interpreting media images through writing, drawing and speaking.

Students will meet and interact with youth from organizations such as The Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Development (JOHUD) and TheQueen Zein Al-Sharaf Institute for Development (ZENID) to gain an increased understanding of issues affecting youth in Jordan. Students will also have the opportunity to visit historically and culturally significant sites such as Petra and Jarash. During a community reception in Amman, American students will make presentations about American life and culture for an audience of youth and community leaders. These students will experience the culture and traditions of the Middle East firsthand by staying with host families while in Jordan.