Starz As 1 International · Development Culture Program
One team.
One world.
Starz As 1 International is the Starz × AS1 International × EF Foundation joint venture's development culture program — taking our athletes across borders to represent their culture and learn another. One umbrella, many doors.
The program grid
Many doors. One umbrella.
Starz As 1 Global Ambassadors
"One team. One world. Represent your culture, learn another."
- Ages
- 13–18
- When
- Summer 2027
- Format
- Abroad
- Cohort
- 40 ambassadors — first cohort
- Destinations
- TBA
Starz As 1 Junior Ambassadors
The junior track — the door for our youngest travelers.
- Ages
- 8–12
- Duration
- TBA
- Format
- TBA
- Promise
- TBA — Coach's call: junior track or hold until the flagship runs
Starz As 1 Coaches Exchange
A coaching-culture exchange — later door.
- Ages
- Adults
- Duration
- TBA
- Format
- TBA
- Promise
- TBA — Coach's call: coaching culture exchange as a later door
⭐ The Starz edge: THE TUNNEL: DIAMOND MIND for ambassadors
Travel tests the mind before the game does — new country, new language, new everything. Every Ambassador track carries the Diamond Mind hour: the Pressure Audit (name what's actually applying pressure), the 4-4-4 Tunnel Walk (breath, body, attention, first action), W.I.N. ("What's Important Now"), and the Next-Play Reset (exhale, cue word, next job).
PERFORMANCE = (REPS × COMMAND) − DRIFT. We don't just send athletes abroad — we send vessels trained to hold pressure anywhere in the world.
The trust layer
Why Starz can walk this road
The JV
Starz × AS1 International × EF Foundation — the development culture program behind the Summer 2027 exchange.
The record
Starz Academy's youth-empowerment work since 2009 — camp, club, and culture.
The proof card
Coach Ty Reed is the Spring 2027 EF Educational Tours group leader — France, Italy, UK. Starz walks this road already.
No invented campus counts, no invented country counts. The record is what is real.
Open decisions
Coach's calls
The following stay open until Coach rules — nothing is guessed:
· Destinations for the Summer 2027 Global Ambassadors cohort
· Junior Ambassadors: junior track now, or hold until the flagship runs
· Coaches Exchange: yes / no as a later door
· Promise lines for the Junior and Coaches tracks
· Program fee and funding model (funding, committee, staffing — the exchange goal's open questions)
Join the roster.
One step: email us. Until the request-info system exists, the roster starts here.
coachtyreed@gmail.com