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Wyoming Connections Academy Field Trips
Bringing Lessons to Life
Whether exploring Wyoming’s frontier past at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, enjoying the present at a hayride, or considering the future at our State Capitol, our students connect and learn on field trips throughout our state.
At WYCA, we integrate Wyoming’s rich cultural, historical and natural resources into our curriculum to bring classroom lessons to life. With the help of Community Coordinators, WYCA offers students:
- Excursions to nature preserves, wildlife museums, and parks to explore our native plants, animals, and geography.
- Cultural outings to deepen their understanding of art, music, and theater.
- History tours to vividly trace the impact of the past on the present.
- Excursions to connect math and science concepts to practical living and working applications.
- Local outings to farms, parks, and businesses to connect students with one another and the community they live in.
Just for fun
At WYCA, we’re just as committed to your student’s social and personal development as his or her academic performance. So we schedule events just for fun too, including our end-of-the year picnic, ice cream socials, and local get-togethers like our recent guacamole-making session at a taqueria (taco shop) in Jackson.
Exploring Life after Graduation
To help high school students exploring career and college options, we offer field trips to colleges and universities, college fairs, and businesses.
See for Yourself ...
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Students families and teachers head out to sea
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Students learn about mining days techniques and dangers
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Fast friends enjoy a fun day together
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Students explore a meteor crater rim
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Students learn about life in colonial times on a living history field trip
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High school students write letters to American troops overseas
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High School students tour a college campus
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Students enter the stone walls of an 11th century-style castle
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Students are inspired at a local museum of art
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Students and their teacher enjoy a field trip to the zoo
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Students explore Washington DC
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Students enjoy a field trip to the Palomar Observatory
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Students experience life as colonial Americans
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Students participating in a scavenger hunt
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Students learn about their local environment on an EcoTour field trip
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Students and their teacher on a field trip to the local county fair
This year, WYCA students:
- Learned about trapping and Wyoming’s wildlife directly from Jake Korrell, the last living mountain man, at the Wind River Heritage Center
- Observed the workings of state government firsthand during a trip to the State Capitol
- Explored the history, myth, and artifacts of the West at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center
- Toured historic Cheyenne by trolley
- Experienced the hardships of the 20th Century homesteader at the Riverton Museum
- Learned about contemporary art at the Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center