Tuesday, October 11, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. at the Kansas City Convention Center

Free for KC-area students and teachers • Grades 9-12

1000 Students, JOIN US

School Registration
Booth & Sponsor Registration

About the Event

Away from the borders and coasts, Kansas City-area students are often surprised to find just how many international academic and professional opportunities await them. This unique college and career fair brings students to the table, with dozens of international businesses, organizations, colleges, and universities, to show them just how global their future can be.

In 2022, Your Global Future will combine aspects of previous years to offer:

  • Trade show-style college and career fair where businesses, universities, and organizations will come together under the same roof to interact with hundreds of area high school students
  • In-school assemblies in the weeks leading up to the Your Global Future event featuring speakers from sponsoring organizations
  • Follow-up real world learning visits by students to sponsoring organizations.

Previous Years Your Global Future:

Program Sponsors 2022

To be a sponsor of this year and for more information about sponsor packages, which support our programming and increase your visibility and impact, please contact Matthew Hughes or Sadia Aurna, Global Education Coordinator.

2022 Global Education Sponsor:

Linda S. Trout

Sustaining Sponsors:

Arvest Bank
Arvest BankSustaining Sponsor
Paul and Anita WeidaSustaining Sponsor

Supporting Sponsor:

University of Missouri

Program Participants 2022

  • Avila University
  • Alpha Phi Omega
  • Bio-Microbics
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City
  • Commerce Bank
  • Cosentino’s
  • Crossworld
  • Donnelly College
  • English Speaking Union
  • Ethnic Enrichment Commission
  • Harriman-Jewell Series
  • Johnson County Community College
  • Kansas Department of Labor
  • Metropolitan Community College
  • Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Northwest Missouri State University
  • Park University
  • RISE (Kansas City Public Library)
  • The ONE Campaign
  • University of Central Missouri
  • University of Missouri
  • UMKC
  • United Nations Association of Greater Kansas City
  • University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • University of Kansas International Admissions
  • University of Kansas Medical Center
  • YMCA of Greater Kansas City

Your Global Future – 2022 FAQs

What sort of organizations will be attending?

All of our organizations will be able to discuss how their opportunities can benefit the students and lead them down a particularly international path, either elsewhere in the world or from right here in the Kansas City area.

Registration for the 2022 Your Global Future college & career fair is available now!

Teachers, administrators, or other coordinators: register groups of students all at once here. Students may also register themselves individually. The deadline to register coming soon!

Presenters & Sponsors: register here to share your organization in-person to an audience of hundreds of local students.

The Your Global Future global college & career fair is underwritten by support from the participating organizations and generous Kansas City-area donors to ensure that attendance is completely cost-free for teachers and students, every year.

For our sponsoring speakers: your organization’s financial contribution subsidizes student attendance and bus transportation to IRC programs. Our organizational members get a booth for no cost. The general booth costs are:

  • 150 dollars for Nonprofits
  • 250 dollars for Universities
  • 350 Dollars for Businesses

Registration fees go up on July 1. To know all about sponsorships please contact Matthew Hughes at mhughes@irckc.org or 816-897-6474.

For more information about sponsor packages, which support our programming and increase your visibility and impact, please contact Matthew Hughes.

For more information on IRC organizational membership, please contact Daniel Fitzpatrick or visit our pages for business, university, and nonprofit organizational members. All our organizational members will get a complimentary booth and parking voucher for the event.