Beaver Dam High School students traveled to Germany this summer as part of the German American Partnership Program to stay with host families. On Oct. 22, 27 students from the host families arrived in Beaver Dam for a visit from Giessen (spelled Gießen in German), about an hour north of Frankfurt.
The German students visited Washington, D.C., when they first arrived in the U.S.A.
The German American Partnership Program, which began in the 1970s, is supported by the German Foreign Ministry and the U.S. State Department. Each year, approximately 9,000 American and German students visit their partner schools. Beaver Dam and Giessen have one of the longest running exchanges, dating back to 1979.