Field Trip app partners with President Lincoln’s Cottage, sponsors free field trips for over 500 DC-area public school students.
August 21, 2013. DC Public School students and students at Title 1 schools in Maryland and Virginia will receive free field trips to President Lincoln’s Cottage, thanks to a generous donation from Field Trip from Niantic Labs @ Google. Field Trip is a location-based app. Called “the future of augmented reality” by The Atlantic, Field Trip is expanding its reach by partnering with President Lincoln’s Cottage, the Cradle of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Lincoln family’s seasonal retreat in Washington, D.C. Over five hundred area students will benefit from the bus scholarships and free educational programs courtesy of Field Trip.
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