Kids Get Close Up With the Captiol Visitors Center

November 12, 2008 RSS Feed Print
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Twenty thousand kids and teachers can't be wrong. At least that's what the new Capitol Visitor Center hopes. In a dry run to test the new tourist facility on the Capitol grounds before officially cutting the ribbon next month, groups from Close Up, the Washington classroom program, are being invited to play guinea pigs. "Our kids will be figuring out what's working and not," says Close Up President Tim Davis. Close Up, which brings some 20,000 students and teachers to Washington each year for insider briefings and tours, did the same for the Newseum before its opening. "They asked our kids to come in and just run wild," he says. "It helps them work out the bugs."

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Sounds like a great event. Our youth of today need to see the history that build the United States.

daryljames of PA 2:55PM September 11, 2011

Sounds like a great event. Our youth of today need to see the history that build the United States.

daryljames of PA 2:54PM September 11, 2011

I am 16 years old and i am going to go on the close-up trip next week reading these just makes me even more excited than what I was before!!!

April Dean of MI 8:26AM March 19, 2009

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