Travel Channel
Through the Global Explorers Compass Program, Travel Channel Media sponsors DC students and educators on expeditions.
Across television and the many growing digital media platforms, Travel Channel's content entertains the consumer's urge to experience all that the world has to offer.
Through its programs, Global Explorers brings that urge to life by providing life-changing and immersive travel experiences to students and educators.
Recognizing the substantial overlap in their missions, Global Explorers and Travel Channel have partnered to create the Global Explorers Compass program. This program provides middle school and high school students in the D.C. area, who might otherwise not have the opportunity, the chance to experience first-hand the life-changing lessons that one realizes through the power of travel.
Through the Compass program, students participate in a retreat at Travel Channel's headquarters where they obtain valuable lessons in video production and editing prior to their Global Explorers’ travel adventure. The students then utilize their video-making knowledge to capture their own travel stories and share them throughout their communities. For these students, catching the “travel bug” often proves to be the catalyst for further learning and exploration.
Interested in helping make travel a reality for students in financial need? Has travel changed your life in profound ways? Share with us by contacting .
KIPP DC: AIM Academy
Are you ready to apply? Your application includes the following components:
1) Global Explorers Compass Online Student Application
2) Educators can complete their online forms by visiting Two Educator Referral Forms ONLINE
3) KIPP DC: AIM Academy Legal Guardian Supplemental Online Form
4) A copy of your school transcripts (official or unofficial)
5) A copy of your family's most recent 1040 tax form (skip if you are not applying for scholarship funding).
6) If you have a disability, please complete the online Global Explorers Survey for Students with Disabilities
All materials must be submitted by email or delivered in print form to Jordan Lonegren by December 7. Questions? Contact or 877-627-1425.
