What is the America250 student program asking young people what America means to them?
Answer
America’s Field Trip
America’s Field Trip is the America250 student program asking young people what America means to them.
The program invites students across the country to respond to the prompt through creative and educational work. Selected participants can receive experiential prizes connected with places, institutions, and people that help tell the American story.
America’s Field Trip is designed to make the semiquincentennial participatory. Instead of treating the anniversary as a history lesson delivered only by institutions, it asks students to interpret the country’s past, present, and future in their own voices.
It is distinct from America Gives, which centers on volunteer service. The similar patriotic names can make the programs easy to mix up, but one is student-focused and the other is service-focused.