Field Trips

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:

• Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia (overnight)
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (overnight)
• U.S. Supreme Court
• National Security Agency, National Cryptologic Museum
• Amazon Fulfillment Center (Industrial Engineering)
• Calleva Outdoor Adventures and Leadership
• The White House and Lincoln Memorial
• U.S.A Science and Engineering Festival (students exhibited and presented)
• U.S. Library of Congress, Book Preservation Laboratory
• Smithsonian Natural History Museum (behind the scenes)
• 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