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Discussion on Summer Rising field trips

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Council Member Mercedes Narcisse inquires about the field trips offered in the Summer Rising program. Daniel Guillén from DYCD provides information on the diverse range of trips, both within and outside the city.

Trips include visits to Yankee Stadium, amusement parks, museums, and college tours
Approximately 4,200 field trips were organized
Narcisse emphasizes the importance of exposing children to experiences outside their usual environment

Mercedes Narcisse

1:27:49

Let let me start by the trip, like the field trips that you're having.

1:27:55

And thank you.

1:27:55

Thank you for the work you've been doing because I will tell you that your program is very popular.

1:28:03

So my question for the field trip, I see 4200 field trips.

1:28:08

Where do we take the kids?

1:28:09

Are we taking them outside of the city, or they're all within the city?

Daniel Guillén

1:28:15

So there is a balance of trips that happened in the city and outside of the city.

1:28:19

Mhmm.

1:28:20

And it's very diverse.

1:28:21

So just gonna run off a couple of locations.

1:28:24

1 because I'm a Yankee fan.

1:28:26

They did we did implement trips to Yankee Stadium, to the MLB offices.

1:28:30

I'm sorry.

1:28:35

We did do And

Mercedes Narcisse

1:28:35

I used some time for my time.

Daniel Guillén

1:28:37

Yeah.

1:28:37

And we did do amusement parks.

1:28:38

So I do wanted to flag that to venture land, queasy, amusement park, the Ninja Park, bowling alleys theaters, Chelsea Pierce, escape rooms, the botanical gardens, Intrepid Intrepid Museum, the Brooklyn Cyclones game, Pfizer as part of the exploring futures component, also college tours through the CUNY explorers program for our middle school youth, as well as as other, you know, well noted museums across.

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