Field Trips

Borderless has been a proud partner of Act One, a non-profit organization in Arizona, since 2020 when they launched virtual field trips. Act One makes the arts accessible to thousands of children and families in Arizona each year through field trips for preK-12 students from Title I schools. When the pandemic hit, they wanted to harness the power of virtual reality to transport kids somewhere inspiring that they may never get to see in person, without leaving the classroom.

Using the Borderless platform Act One hosted a “magic school bus” experience, transporting children to global arts and culture destinations. The field trip “Freedom in Expression,” took students on a 360° visual and audio journey connecting the history of public art to the Mexican Mural Movement with a muralist in modern-day Chicago and ground-breaking female mariachis in Tucson.

Each field trip was structured into digestible chapters, incorporating opportunities for in-person discussions and tailored lesson plans. For this experience, Borderless offered a guided sync mode to empower teachers to effortlessly steer classes of hundreds of students, and software architecture allowed the flexibility for instructors to control individual VR headsets when necessary.

Act One has used the Borderless platform across Arizona school districts to foster a love for learning and the arts, and planned to reach 20,000 youth attending Title I schools during the 2022-2023 school year.