Field Studies

Where will your high school take you?

Connecting Academic Work to the Real World (Trips We Have Taken to Enrich Classroom Work):

International Trips:

• 2010-2011 Italy (Rome and Florence)

• 2011-2012 France and The United Kingdom
  

Overnight Trips:

• Boston, MA (Berklee School of Music, Freedom Trail, Harvard, MIT, Museum of Fine Arts)

• New York, NY (Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum, MOMA, Museum of Natural History, New York Public Library, United Nations)

Day Trips:

• Antietam

• Arlington National Cemetery

• Folger Theater

• Georgetown University Law Center

• Gettysburg

• Goddard Space Flight Center

• Harpers Ferry

• Kennedy Center

• Lectures by Bestselling Authors and Nobel Laureates

• Leesburg Stream Water Quality Monitoring

• Library of Congress

• Mirant (Dickerson, MD) Power Plant

• Mount Vernon

• National Archives

• National Building Museum

• National Institutes of Health

• National Weather Service Dulles Airport Facility

• Richmond, VA

• Shakespeare Theater

• Smithsonian Museums in D.C. and Virginia (Air & Space, American Indian, Art, Natural History, Portrait Gallery)

• Solar Decathlon

• U.S. Capitol, U.S. Senate

• U.S. Science and Engineering Festival

• U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument

• U.S. Dept. of State Conferences

• Washington Post Production Facility

• West Wing of The White House

Athletic Activities:

• Professional Instruction in Kickboxing, Krav Maga, Yoga, and other activities students select

• Intramural competition in Soccer, Football, Ultimate Frisbee, Basketball, Water Polo, Softball, and other sports students select