Metro International celebrated International Education Week in New York City on Thursday, November 21, 2002, with "Go Global: An International Education Fair," which brought 7 Fulbright scholars (with two family members), 3 Fulbright students, 13 other international students, and 7 consular officials from 22 countries together with 85 middle schoolers from Brooklyn for a simulated trip around the world.

Using brightly colored travel tickets with itineraries charting stops at countries in six different regions of the world, 6th and 7th graders journeyed in small groups from Australia to Uzbekistan. As they stopped at different country booths, the children learned greetings in several Nigerian languages, sampled Colombian arepas, Russian chocolates and Korean rice milk, and developed an early understanding of the importance of international educational exchange. "Go Global: An International Education Fair" launched the second year of Metro International's "Global Classroom in the Community" initiative in Brooklyn's District 13.

Funded, in part, by The Henry Luce Foundation, Global Classroom in the Community, combines monthly curriculum-related classroom presentations by trained international students and Fulbright scholars with community programs at local cultural institutions. This initiative is part of Metro's longstanding Global Classroom program and supports the organization's mission to create global learning opportunities for students, educators, and the community, in New York City... and beyond. This event was hosted by Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.