Educators are constantly seeking ways to inspire students, spark their imagination and encourage their creativity. It might seem strange to turn to a trio of blue men to accomplish this, and yet, Blue Man Group offers students a fun, carefree environment where they...
Since Robert Ripley first displayed his collection of bizarre events and unusual items at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! has become a household name, attracting more than 12 million visitors per year at various locations throughout the...
Gatlinburg is eastern Tennessee’s playground, a place where the natural beauty of the Smoky Mountains is augmented by a slew of manmade activities. Its Christmas festivities might be legendary, but that’s only a few weeks out of the year. Gatlinburg is just as...
Blue Man Group performances are not just your typical show – they are an experience. Featuring music, dance, lights, instrumentals, and sounds and movements that are both familiar and obscure, the long-running crowd-pleaser is truly an incomparable cultural...
There’s a lot students can learn about science and nature from a textbook. But the lessons that stick with them are the ones that take place outside a classroom setting. The ones that give them a hands-on, real-life lesson that they can apply in their everyday lives....
Hearing the words “Mall of America®” will most likely bring to mind one thing in particular: an extravagant shopping trip. With no state sales tax on clothing or shoes and over 520 stores to browse through, Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota is the go-to...
Planning a student trip is never easy. You often want to visit a large city with plenty of historic and cultural attractions, but those can often be the most expensive. Brightspark Travel, a Chicago-based tour operator, has crafted a series of trips to five East Coast...
We are lucky to live in the most exciting and dynamic time for space exploration, with new discoveries and missions making their way via mainstream media into homes around the world. The next decade will bring new challenges and incredible findings that may have been...
No one said that planning student travel was easy, and that goes double for booking air fares. Sure, getting a group of 10 or 20 students into a hotel or an attraction is usually straightforward, a simple matter of phoning or emailing ahead and making...