Panama
This currency is what you will use to purchase items in Panama.
What is the Panamanian Balboa?
This native bean has also been known to be a vital part of the culture that is used in rituals, medicine, and currency.
“What is the cocoa bean?”
The Team Connecticut Travel Behavior Expectations.
What are to be safe, respectful, and responsible when traveling?
This lightweight clothing item will help keep you cool and dry in the tropical rainforest climate.
What are moisture-wicking clothes?
Travelers may want to practice phrases like “Hola,” “Gracias,” and “¿Dónde está el baño?” because this is the main language spoken in both Panama and Costa Rica.
What is Spanish?
This phrase means protecting and caring for the environment and natural resources for future generations.
What is environmental stewardship?
This busy capital city sits near the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal and is known for its skyscrapers, history, and markets.
What is Panama City?
The most popular way to say hello.
What is “Pura Vida”?
This travel expectation is demonstrated when a traveler immediately removes their earbuds and gives full attention when a chaperone, tour guide, or local guide begins speaking.
What is being respectful?
This item protects you from sudden tropical rainstorms common in Costa Rica and Panama.
What is a rain jacket or poncho?
The theme for the 2026 Global Leadership Summit
What is "The Power of Environmental Stewardship"?
This renewable energy source uses sunlight to create electricity and is widely used in Costa Rica.
What is solar energy?
This historic district of Panama City is famous for its colorful colonial buildings, cobblestone streets, hidden cafés, and rich history, and is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
What is Casco Viejo?
This appetizer is a modern classic found in bars that has a mix of rice, beans, fried pork, and tortilla chips
What is “Chifrijo”
These two behavior expectations are demonstrated when a traveler leaves a shop’s payment line during free time to arrive at the meeting spot on time, even though they really wanted to buy the item.
What are being respectful and responsible?
The weight limit for your luggage on this trip.
What is up to 50 lbs?
The location of the Global Leadership Summit for this tour.
What is San Jose, Costa Rica?
This organization designates important cultural and natural locations around the world as World Heritage Sites.
What is UNESCO?
This inland body of water hosts many animals and ecosystems and will be the location of our canoe trip.
What is the Rio Chagres?
This is the currency of Costa Rica.
What are colones?
The scenario in which a traveler informs their chaperone about their bathroom break and exact location demonstrates these two important behavior expectations.
What are being safe and responsible?
This important document is required for international travel and should always be kept with you or in a safe place.
What is your Passport?
The two bodies of water that border Panama and Costa Rica.
What are the Caribbean Sea (Atlantic Ocean) and the Pacific Ocean?
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
This world-famous waterway helps giant ships travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, giving them a shortcut instead of sailing all the way around South America.
What is the Panama Canal?
The name of the rainforest reserve that is a tropical science resource, which has a suspension bridge you can cross.
What is the Tirimbina Rainforest?
This scenario supports two of our Team Connecticut Travel Behavioral Expectations by highlighting how we should behave during our trip experiences. Create your own realistic travel scenario and identify the two expectations being demonstrated.
This made-up scenario should be created by a jeopardy contestant and judged by chaperones.
You will be given this at the airport and be required to wear it on your wrist the entire time.
What is an EF Bracelet?
These two important travel tools help travelers communicate with locals, look up our EF schedule, navigate unfamiliar places, translate languages, and stay connected with the group during our EF trip.
What is your cell phone and the EF travel app?
What are two objectives of Environmental Stewardship?
What are . . .
1. Restoration of degraded ecosystems
2. Environmental Conservation
3. Protection of Endangered Species
4. Improving Resource Sustainability
5. Creating Awareness