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SWASAP Pre-Conference: See Santa Fe: Best Practices in Student Travel for TRIO Programs

  • 11/07/2026
  • The Clyde Hotel • Albuqerque, NM

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Looking for new ways to create meaningful educational travel experiences for your students?

Join fellow TRIO professionals for a unique hands-on learning experience as we travel aboard the New Mexico Rail Runner Express from Albuquerque to Santa Fe. This mobile workshop demonstrates how affordable public transportation can be incorporated into educational travel while showcasing strategies for planning engaging student experiences.

Participants will visit several cultural, educational, and civic landmarks while discussing every stage of planning a successful TRIO student trip from budgeting and logistics to supervision, risk management, learning outcomes, and assessment.

Participants Will Explore:

  • Planning affordable educational travel
  • Creating meaningful student learning experiences
  • Budgeting and transportation logistics
  • Safety planning and risk management
  • Student supervision best practices
  • Building educational itineraries
  • Integrating college, career, workforce, and cultural exploration
  • Evaluating student learning outcomes

What to Bring: Comfortable walking shoes, water bottle, portable fan, phone charger, small backpack, notbook and spending money!

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