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It was a wonderful meeting of Polish and Belarusian Alumni of the US Department of State programs.

And it all started with the acquaintance of Rafal Pieprzyk – President of the Alumni Association with Vadzimir Zarankin, who was the tutor of Belarusian Alumni at the US Embassy in Minsk. We had the opportunity to meet during the workshop “Alumni Focused Strategy Seminar: Best Practices, Success Stories and Alumni Associations” organized by the US Embassy in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. We were there in September 2018.

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On June 22, 2024, the Annual General Meeting of the Alumni Association took place.

After a couple of years of conducting online deliberations, we returned to meet in the ‘real’. We met to summarize the activities of our Association in 2023. We did not give up on connecting online with people from outside Warsaw, so we had the opportunity to test, for the first time in the history of Alumni, conducting the meeting in hybrid form. And it worked !

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It’s for the third time that January and February were an active period in our community. Because it was the time of the “Alumni Carnival”, i.e. a series of regional Alumni meetings with lots of fun, interesting events and talking over coffee & tea, beer & wine (of choice).

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On the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the Alumni Association, which falls on January 17, 2024, we present another portion of reports from Polish scholarship holders in the United States. Their testimonies, full of reflections, discoveries and emotions, reveal only part of their work, which – thanks to the interactive connections of our social media – you can explore on your own on social networking sites to which the links posted here refer.

Happy birthday, our little-to-be-adult Association!

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On December 12, the Alumni celebrated the Xmas Party for the 9th time.
We were hosted by Avangarda Restaurant in Warsaw in beautiful interiors and at lavishly set tables. Many members of our Association came to the Xmas Party to meet, talk and have fun. Because traditionally, there was a Christmas counting game. It made sure that every participant left the event with a gift.

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“Alumni Thanksgiving” is always a family time with home-made food, tasty turkey and good drinks. But this time it was… fantastic! For the sixth time, we had the opportunity to meet in the Alumni circle, together with friends from the US Consulate General in Krakow and American Fulbrighters who came to Poland on their scholarships.

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On October 5 The Alumni Association co-organized the artistic part of the event organized by the Regional Chamber of Commerce in Katowice – “American Day: Think BIG!”. We had the opportunity to invite the American artist Joanna Pottle to Katowice.

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“American Day: Think BIG!” was an event organized by the Regional Chamber of Commerce in Katowice. This cyclical event’s goal is to promote partnership relations between the United States and Poland, mutual understanding of investment opportunities, initiation of dialogue and openness to cooperation between representatives of the SME sector in both countries. And so it’s been for the sixth time.

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At the invitation of the American Embassy in Warsaw, representatives of the Alumni Association took part in a ceremonial breakfast with graduates of Polish-American exchange programs. The event was organized on September 25, 2023 in the ballroom of the Regent Warsaw Hotel. The gathered guests were welcomed by Brian George, the newly appointed Counselor for Public Affairs of the American Embassy, accompanied by the Cultural Attaché, Jeanne Briganti.

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September is an annual time when members of the Alumni Association meet for an integration trip. This time we were welcomed by Pomerania. On September 15-17, we came to Wieżyca, near Szymbark, to take advantage of the hospitality of the Kashubian People’s University (KUL).

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