A project funded by the National Security Agency; Mission: to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking and teaching critical-need foreign languages, and to prepare them for federal workforce. A three-week virtual program (July 12 to July 30, 2021) & a three-week residential program (July 11 to July 29, 2022) Rising high school juniors and seniors and college freshmen and sophomores enrolled Students are from the High Country, where Appalachian State University is located, and its surrounding Southern Appalachian region, especially Western North Carolina and East Tennessee.