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Kiwanis International sends Parkway Key Club Member to Japan
Kiwanis Japan Exchange Key Club Student Parkway High School
Sixteen-year-old Meghan Beckmann recently returned from a trip of a lifetime. In June, she spent two weeks in Japan thanks to a scholarship from Kiwanis International. During her first week Beckmann stayed with a host family in Kyoto, experiencing everyday life. Then, she traveled to Tokyo, spending her second week sightseeing and doing volunteer work.
This was Beckmann’s first trip out of the U.S. Recently, she presented a video of her entire trip at a meeting of her sponsoring club, The Kiwanis Club of Meramec Valley Community.
Beckmann is a Junior and a Key Club member at Parkway West High School in St. Louis. She is the daughter of Glenn and Karen Beckmann.
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The youth exchange program for Kiwanis family teens is known as K Corps. K Corps is operated in cooperation with PAX Laurasian Exchange.
Pictured from left are Mo-Ark Division 9 Lieutenant Governor Carla O’Brien; Judy Gustafson, president of The Kiwanis Club of Meramec Valley Community; Meghan Beckmann, member of Key Club, Parkway West High School and Mo-Ark Division 9 Lieutenant Governor-Elect Rich Kircher.