Passport Atlanta provides students curated journeys, access and adventure during summer months

By Llewellyn Dixon, VP operations and founding board member, Passport Atlanta

Faculty is out for the summer season in metro Atlanta. Whereas many college students look ahead to summer season camp or journeys away with the household, 1000’s extra lack the sources for journey. Fortuitously, what began a few years in the past as a dialog between three mates – Courtney English, Jay Bailey and (now Mayor) Andre Dickens on a rooftop in Washington, D.C. has became a instrument that palms Atlanta youth the keys to the town. 

It’s referred to as Passport Atlanta, and it’s a free app that grants entry, publicity and alternative to all college students. Think about a highschool sophomore rising up on the West Facet. She loves animals and is all the time glued to the display watching footage of whales and different fish. However for any variety of causes, she’s by no means seen any up shut. She discovers an app that is ready to get her a free journey and free entry to the Georgia Aquarium on a number of events. Her reward for going? She will get to have a private expertise with any wildlife of her selecting. Her diligence grants her an internship and different alternatives through the years. Quick ahead to after school: She now works on the Georgia Aquarium as a marine biologist.

That’s Passport Atlanta.

Our app is designed to ship college students out on journeys to any variety of locations all through the town. As soon as there, they’re given duties to finish. After completion, they’re given a stamp (simply as you’d get together with your actual passport) and factors. These factors might be redeemed for something as small as a lunch all the best way as much as scholarships for school, an precise passport and a visit exterior the nation—the sky is the restrict. Our purpose is to destroy any barrier that stops a pupil from experiencing one thing that will change their life endlessly. We need to give them hope to dream past what they already know. We imagine that they’ll be what they see, so we would like them to see all the things good that this metropolis has to supply. Because of a current working grant from the Neighborhood Basis for Larger Atlanta, extra college students will get that chance.

C.J. Stewart beta examined the Passport app in 2021. “In in the future, I visited the Excessive Museum, Martin Luther King, Jr. Nationwide Historic Park, Martin Luther King, Jr. Delivery House, [the] Rep. John Lewis Mural, and the South-View Cemetery to go to the burial web site of Rep. John Lewis,” he stated, “It was a full day of training, inspiration and I used to be energized. The app was person pleasant and I beloved how I used to be capable of doc what I realized with pictures and notes. And with the press of a button, I used to be in a position to make use of a navigation map to direct me to my subsequent vacation spot.”

See what Stewart skilled on his tour right here, and to be taught extra about Passport Atlanta, go to our web site at passportatlanta.com.

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