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**Melonie Bisset ’24 from Bard College Secures Critical Language Scholarship for Overseas Language Program**

Bard College senior Melonie Bisset ’24, a film and electronic arts major, has won a highly selective Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) for the 2024 summer session. CLS, a program of the US Department of State, provides recipients with overseas placements that include intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains. Bisset will study Portuguese at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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### Imagining a Brighter Tomorrow: Sun Devil’s Winning World-Building Game

An Arizona State University student has won a scholarship for graduate school by designing an extended-reality game that reimagines the landscape of her native Guam.

Victoria Silva, an animation major in the School of Art who was one of two Worlds for Change grand prize winners, created “Leeward,” a 3D gardening game about conservation and identity from an indigenous perspective.

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