Field Trips

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Our distinctive education encompasses meaningful experiences beyond our walls to places of innovation, influence and significance to our society.

Students as Explorers

Our field trips reflect the extraordinary education at Ideaventions Academy. Each year, our field trips are thoughtfully organized based on student pursuits and interests, emergent opportunities, curriculum focal points, and active research work. This is list of field trips in the current and previous academic years: 
  • ​Green Bank Observatory, Green Bank, West Virginia (overnight)
  • Chincoteague Bay Field Station (overnight)
  • Charlottesville and Staunton, Virginia (overnight)
  • Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia (overnight)
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (overnight)
  • Merry Wives of Windsor at The Folger Shakespeare Library
  • Hamlet at Blackfriars Playhouse
  • International Spy Museum
  • The Newseum
  • The National Zoo
  • CEA Farms
  • Living Classrooms Foundation Shipboard Education
  • National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum
  • Arlington National Cemetery​
  • Smithsonian Natural History Museum (behind the scenes)
  • Virginia Institute of Marine Science
  • NASA Wallops Flight Facility
  • Carlyle House
  • Stabler Leadbeater Apothecary Museum
  • University of Maryland, College Park 
  • University of Virginia
  • Local Motors
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Churchill Exhibit at The Folger Shakespeare Library
  • National Security Agency: National Cryptologic Museum
  • Drug Enforcement Administration Museum
  • Amazon Fulfillment Center (Industrial Engineering)
  • Calleva Outdoor Adventures and Leadership
  • The White House and Lincoln Memorial
  • USA Science and Engineering Festival (students exhibited and presented)
  • US Library of Congress, Book Preservation Laboratory​
  • Fairfax County International Search & Rescue
  • Virginia Military Institute: Biological Research Laboratories

Informal Meetups

As an intellectual community that shares common interests, we organize informal meetups at significant outside events like MIT Spark, documentary showings such as He Named Me Malala and Screenagers, and outside scientific lecture series.

Historical Reenactors

Sometimes we bring the field trip to us.  Using historical reenactors, we have had the pleasure of enjoying visits by prominent figures such as:
  • Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
  • Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
  • Thomas Edison