Required. Loop Abroad requires you to download WhatsApp for pre-departure communication and will use WhatsApp to contact your staff members in country. It is a free app and we recommend your family to use it as well for communication while you are on your trip. 

Suggested. We will send each group a link to a photo album to easily share photos with everyone in your group. This is also how students will enter the photo contest! Photo contest participants can win cash prizes and one of our suture kits + course!

Required. You are required to bring a laptop or tablet to complete coursework on your program regardless of if you are getting credit. You can do some of it on your phone through Google Classrooms if you’d like this option.

Suggested. Can be used when you return to the US to go into a usually shorter and faster moving line through customs. You can only fill it out when the plane lands back in the US and it is valid for 2 hours. Most major international airports will accept this option. Follow the customs signs with the app photo and “mobile passport” designation.

Suggested. Can be used to take new Passport photo