FMS students take trip of a lifetime to Washington D.C. – Davison Index

College students visited a lot of Washington D.C.’s most iconic memorials, monuments and landmarks. Images offered

WASHINGTON D.C. — For the primary time in three years, Flushing Center Faculty was capable of ship college students on a fun-filled journey to Washington D.C.

On Could 26, 122 college students, 9 employees members and 20 mother and father launched into the four-day journey via D.C. and different vacationer stops close to the nation’s capital. College students and chaperones visited most of the D.C. space’s most iconic landmarks and historic locations and arrived again dwelling within the early morning hours of Could 30, simply in time for Memorial Day.

Day 1 of the journey featured a go to to the Luray Caverns in Luray, V.A.— dwelling to the biggest cavern system within the jap United States. From there, college students took a jam-packed sightseeing tour of D.C.’s important sights, together with the Nationwide Archives, america Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ford’s Theatre, the place President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

College students additionally posed for footage exterior the White Home and noticed the World Conflict II Memorial, the Martin Luther King Memorial, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and the Korean Conflict Memorial.

Contained in the Luray Caverns.

Different locations on the journey included Arlington Nationwide Cemetery, Mt. Vernon (the house of George Washington), the Nationwide Museum of African-American Historical past and Tradition, the Smithsonian Nationwide Museum of Pure Historical past, the Nationwide Museum of American Historical past and the Medieval Occasions dinner present in Baltimore—which featured jousting and delicious feasts match for the Aristocracy (with out utensils, in fact).

FMS trainer Steve Powers, one of many journey’s important coordinators, mentioned that college students loved the historic websites and got here away with a better appreciation for his or her nation’s heritage.

“The journey is educationally primarily based and correlates throughout the board with our curriculum in historical past, social research and science,” mentioned Powers, an eighth-grade science trainer at FMS. “It’s additionally an excellent patriotic expertise that reminds college students that our freedoms have been earned and that we should always by no means take them as a right.”

One of many journey’s extra solemn stops got here at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery, the place FMS college students Keira Dumas-Knieper, Aidan Gaskin, Luke Raquepaw and Charlotte Weaver had the chance to take part within the Wreath Laying Ceremony on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. All 4 college students who have been chosen for the distinction submitted written essays on why they need to be thought-about for the duty of wreath-laying on the cemetery and what it might imply for them.

“Previous to the journey, our college students who’re curious about laying the wreaths write in regards to the topic and submit essays, and the 4 that obtain probably the most votes are nominated as wreath layers,” mentioned Powers. “Many instances, college students write in regards to the freedoms they respect probably the most or the sacrifices that their very own households have revamped generations to offer freedom for all of us.”

Flushing Center Faculty has held scholar excursions to Washington D.C. for over 35 years however was compelled to cancel the previous two journeys as a result of COVID-19.