USA STEM NYC, Washington DC, Orlando - Sample Itinerary

Depart from your local International Airport and fly to New York. Upon arrival, meet your Tour Manager who will be with you for the duration of the tour and ensure that everything runs smoothly from start to finish. Transfer to your New York hotel.

Edge is the highest outdoor sky deck in the Western Hemisphere located at 30 Hudson Yards, with a one-of-a-kind design. It’s suspended in mid-air, giving you the feeling of floating in the sky with 360-degree views you can’t get anywhere else.

Look 100 stories down from the thrilling glass floor, lean out over the city on angled glass walls and sip champagne in the sky.

You’ve never experienced New York like this before.

The Smithsonian is a collection of museums that receive over 28 million visitors a year. Get ready for two days of learning and exploration across time and cultures. This collection of galleries and museums is enough to keep the biggest art and design fan, or history buff, enthralled. Enjoy art galleries, sculpture gardens, science museums, IMAX movies and so much more!

Fly from Washington DC to Orlando, collect your luggage and then head to one of the outlet malls in Florida for a spot of bargain hunting. Continue onto Cocoa Beach and check into your hotel ready for your Camp at Kennedy Space Center.

Each morning travel to Kennedy Space Center and take part awesome Camp KSC International. The camp runs from 9am to 3.30pm every day and lunch and snacks are included.

Camp KSC® International launches youths into a galaxy of fun! Campers are encouraged to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through exciting educational adventures that cannot be found anywhere else. Students experience, imagine and interact through brand-new immersive simulators in the new Astronaut Training Experience® Center, tours of Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, and by solving everyday challenges faced by astronauts. This program is an inspiring three days of educational fun and enriching space-related activities.

Camp Activities

• Train as the next generation of space explorers in the Astronaut Training Experience. Land, walk and drive on Mars through virtual and motion simulation, and conduct a spacewalk in a microgravity experience.
• Live and work on Mars for the day in Mars Base 1. Work together to solve base operations emergencies, program robots to optimize solar energy, and sustain life in the Botany Lab.
• Tour exhibits and attractions throughout the visitor complex and encounter everyday challenges of astronauts and engineers through hands-on activities and experiments.
• Build spacecraft, launch rockets, construct habitats and design space suits.

Each evening you'll enjoy dinner at a local restaurant at Cocoa Beach.

Kennedy Space Center is an educational center that allows students to explore and tour NASA areas and interact with shows and exhibits. View ten-story high rockets from all eras of space exploration in the Rocket Garden, walk through a full-size space shuttle mock-up, see 3D-IMAX space films on gigantic five-story screens, and see an actual Gemini program capsule on display. Some recent additions to the Center now include the Space Shuttle Atlantis and The Hubble Telescope exhibit. The amazing exhibits and inspiring shows will immerse students into the past, present and future of the NASA space program. Students will also get a behind the scenes glimpse of Kennedy Space Centre on a NASA Bus Tour to the LC-39 Observation Gantry and the Apollo/Saturn V Centre!

Theme Park Days

Universal Studios: Go behind the scenes, beyond the screen, and jump right into the action of your favourite movies at Universal Studios, the world's premier movie and TV based theme park. The motto of Universal Studios is ‘ride the movies’ and that’s definitely what you will be doing! With great rollercoasters, shows and characters filling the park fun is certainly on the agenda! Check out rides and shows based on popular movies such as ET, Back to the Future, Jaws, Transformers and many more!

Islands of Adventure: This is a thrill seekers paradise! Creative consultant Steven Spielberg put together the most thrilling and technologically advanced rides and attractions ever made at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure. Your journey begins at the exotic Port of Entry and takes you through five uniquely themed islands - Seuss Landing, The Lost Continent, Jurassic Park, Toon Lagoon and Marvel Super Hero Island as well as, Harry Potter World!

Harry Potter World: Pull on your capes for the adventure of many lifetimes at Universal’s Harry Potter World! Opened in 2010, it’s the newest and arguably the most popular park that Orlando has to offer. Sip pumpkin juice and other Hogworts delicacies while enjoying shows such as the Frog Choir, the Ollivanders Wand Shop and the Triwizard Spirit Rally. Then jump on rides such as the Dragon Challenge, Flight of the Hippogriff and the Forbidden Journey to round off a day of magic and action!

You'll also get a VIP Tour - Behind the Adventure

A closer look at some of Universal's Islands of Adventure's rides and attractions

Students will feel like VIPs during this up to 3-hour tour that includes a few of our most popular attractions. From literature to technology, students will gain a new perspective of the innovation and creativity that goes into developing one of the world's most popular theme parks.

WonderWorks is an amusement park for the mind full of “edu-tainment”. The attraction combines education and entertainment with more than 100 hands on exhibits that challenge the mind and spark the imagination. Set in a funky upside down building Wonderworks is made up of six ‘wonder zones’, natural disasters, space discovery, physical challenge zone, imagination lab, far out art gallery and light and sound zone.

Head off to the airport and say goodbye to your Tour Manager, it is time head home.

Land back home with amazing memories of your American adventure.

One of the most significant events in American history is remembered at the 911 Memorial and Museum. The memorial is located at the World Trade Center site, the former location of the Twin Towers, and is dedicated to exploring the implications of the events of 9/11, documenting the impact of those events and exploring 9/11's continuing significance. The Museum displays artefacts associated with the events of 9/11, while presenting stories of loss and recovery.  The names of every person who died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 are inscribed in bronze around the twin memorial pools.

Madison Square Garden is one of the most iconic arenas in all of sports. See an NBA Basketball game (subject to schedule)