Southwest
Our junior year AGS traveled to New Mexico. We went to the Santa Fe and Albuquerque, where we visited a lot of interesting places. In downtown Santa Fe we got to walk by ourselves and visit historical sites of our choosing, I got to see the San Miguel Mission which is the oldest church in the United States featuring a bell that was hundreds of years old. We also went to the Tent Rocks National Monument which was interesting to learn how those rocks were formed. The part of the trip that had more of a community service aspect to it was when we visited the Acoma Pueblo Native American Reservation where we saw "sky city" which was there ancestral village on top of this mesa that had some amazing architecture and houses that people have been living in for over 600 years. We then went to the community school and I helped do some work in the school garden and we also got to meet and play basketball with the kids that went there. We also went to the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History which was maybe my favorite part of the trip as I learned a lot about the Manhattan project and our nuclear program and I also got to see some really cool exhibits such as replicas of the some nuclear bombs, information about the future of nuclear energy, and they also had many airplanes and replica nuclear missiles outside which I thought was really cool. Going into the New Mexico trip I didn't really know what to expect more so than the other trips as this was the first year AGS had done this trip but I was pleasantly surprised at how much there was to see, do and learn.