The American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) annually presents the Melba Woodruff Award to an exemplary foreign language program in the nation. This year at the ACTFL conference in Baltimore, MD, the Eisenhower International School received this award for its outstanding immersion programs. International student exchanges at the Eisenhower International School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have clear benefits. These student exchanges provide rich opportunities for cultural comparisons, new perspectives and natural communication. The exchanges also provide experiential learning that result in cultural understandings that are likely to last a lifetime. Eisenhower, part of the Tulsa Public School District, is a Spanish and French Immersion K-5 elementary school with a total enrollment K-5 of 297. Each year groups of about nine fifth graders travel to Mexico and France. This article discusses the Eisenhower's long-term academic exchange programs with Mexico and France and what has made them so successful.