The 2025 IVECA Global Youth Mentorship Program (iGYMP) Live Class, themed “STEAM for Sustainable Cities,” capped off a semester of shared learning between university mentors from the United States and high school students from South Korea. Exploring global challenges through the lens of education, dialogue and collaboration, the mentors from New York University, City University of New York and Anderson University (South Carolina) and students from Noeun High School in Daejeon

Friday, December 12th, marked a meaningful milestone in the life-long journey towards global citizenship for two middle school classes separated by thousands of miles. Following a semester of in-class and virtual collaboration, the students from South Carolina, USA, and Uttar Pradesh, India, joined their IVECA Live Class to present their research on problems identified in their countries and initiatives the youth in their communities can take  to improve people’s lives, imagi