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Mon, Feb 20, 2017

Spaceport America and FieldTripZoom Partner To Offer Virtual Field Trips

New Mexico Educators Can Access And Plan Curriculum On FieldTripZoom

Spaceport America located in southern New Mexico and FieldTripZoom have announced their partnership to make a range of Spaceport America STEM and other educational content available to every K-12 classroom across the state of New Mexico - free of charge.

From the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, to the Alaska SeaLife Center, to the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, FieldTripZoom works with partners around the world to create meaningful learning opportunities that reach past geographic constrictions and uses technology that already exists in most classrooms. Real-time educational programs delivered by experts provide students with unique learning experiences aligning to national and state curriculum standards.

Programs will cover STEM, History, Career and College Readiness, Art, Music, and Literature. New Mexico teachers can go to http://www.fieldtripzoom.com and use their school email address to register without payment.

"We want every young New Mexican to have the opportunity to 'visit' Spaceport America, either physically or virtually and leave inspired because it is a national treasure playing a historic role in the future of space travel, exploration and commercialization," said Daniel Hicks, Chief Executive Officer Spaceport America. "For the remainder of this academic year, Spaceport America has sponsored a free FieldTripZoom Zone Season Pass for every K-12 classroom in the New Mexico Public and Private School Systems. This equates to approximately 165 programs offered to a variety of different grade levels through the end of the 2016-2017 New Mexico academic school year."

Spaceport America crew members from all departments help to prepare the content, lead the live virtual field trips, stream the launches live and join in for question and answer sessions direct from Spaceport America's vertical launch area or mission control. Virtual field trips entitled "What is Spaceport America?" are held on a monthly basis making it easy for teachers to program into their curriculum.  And in honor of Space Week, on May 5, 2017, classrooms across the US can join the Spaceport America crew for BLAST OFF at Spaceport America from behind the scenes of a real rocket launch! 

"We are excited to bring awe-inspiring content from the iconic Spaceport America in New Mexico to students throughout the world as well as hosting special programs for New Mexico K-12 public and private school students. And we are grateful to Spaceport America for sponsoring access to all our content partner programs for these same students for the remainder of this school year." said Doug Ashton, Co-founder FieldTripZoom.

(Source: Spaceport America news release)

FMI: www.fieldtripzoom.com, www.spaceportamerica.com

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