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Welcome to the Brightspark Travel Blog where you can stay informed with the latest travel stories, news and information. Discover new ways to simplify the student travel experience as you expand the classroom into the real world!
May 11, 2012 - written by TravelGirl11
I love educational travel because it allows my students to take what they have learned in the classroom and apply it in the real world. Many students will never have the opportunity to travel once they leave school, so it’s important to extend the classroom now so that the seed gets planted for the love of world travel in the future. As the world continues to flatten and the economy becomes fully globalized, the importance of multi-cultural understanding and a global...
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May 2, 2012 - written by TravelGirl11
Guest Blogger- Scott Baker is a Senior Event Director for Brightspark Events. He has been planning bowl games for 23 years. His frist Bowl was in 1989, Liberty Bowl in Memphis. Many of us go through life without stepping foot on that proverbial stage or into the spotlight. That being said, many of us, especially those of us in rural America, rarely get to experience a major sporting event. Occasionally we may attend a professional football or basketball game...
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April 25, 2012 - written by Scott
Our town has two middle schools, with three intermediate level schools feeding into each of them. Since students have former classmates spread across both the middle schools, we always combine the schools for our trips to Springfield, Illinois (7th grade) and Washington, D.C. (8th graders) which results in traveling groups that average around 250 participants. An advantage to traveling with a large group is the increased number of adult chaperones involved. It creates the...
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April 17, 2012 - written by Jen
It’s just a fact of student travel that barring a lucky lottery ticket, groups will have to fundraise. Every group in the school, plus nearly every non-school group, is doing the exact same thing. After awhile, supporters are tapped out. They just can’t handle another purchase. I know I’ve participated in more fundraisers than I care to remember, as a student, teacher, and parent. So how to stand out in a sea of fundraisers? Oh, there are plenty of ways, and chocolate bars are nowhere to be...
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