Program participants included U.S. Ambassador Peter A. Prahar, COM-FSM acting interim President Joe Habuchmai, EAC Advisers Lore Nena and Mike Ioanis, COM-FSM faculty and staff, and U.S. college and university alumni. Nearly 200 students attended from COM-FSM, various public and private high schools, and the U.S. federal programs Upward Bound and Educational Talent Search Program in Pohnpei.
As geographical limitations restrict U.S. college representative traffic, the EAC solicited U.S. college and university alumni residing in Pohnpei to represent their schools. Volunteer representatives requested informational and marketing materials from their alma maters, which they then distributed to college fair attendees.
Citing his own international college experience in Japan, Prahar explained that “the extra work involved in figuring out a foreign school system and dealing with life in a foreign country will prove of enormous value to you in the future.”
