Twelve students from Iowa high schools were selected to take part in the Global Youth Excellence Program’s China Leadership Experience sponsored by the ISU Extension office, the Iowa Farm Bureau, and the Iowa Soybean Association. Two Marion County Students will be making the trip. Carrie Adrian, a freshman from Knoxville High School will be one of them. Adrian is active in band, choir, soccer, cross country, 4-H and her church youth group. Joining her will be Mandy Thompson, a freshman at Pleasantville. Thompson has been a girl scout for eight years and a volunteer at Toys for Tots the past five years. The girls will be in China from July 31 to August 9.