{"id":3325,"date":"2021-01-27T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T21:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vxr.direct\/vr-field-trips-b-t-washington-and-g-w-carver\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T16:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:23:43","slug":"vr-field-trips-b-t-washington-and-g-w-carver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vxr.direct\/vr-field-trips-b-t-washington-and-g-w-carver\/","title":{"rendered":"VR Field Trips: B.T. Washington and G.W. Carver"},"content":{"rendered":"

-Stand on the campus of Tuskegee University and learn about it\u2019s founder, Booker T. Washington.
\n-Visit Washington\u2019s home and examine the hand-crafted bricks, designed by George Washington Carver.
\n-Stop by Piedmont Park, in Atlanta, GA, to see where Washington made his famous speech, The Atlanta Compromise, and understand why it was deemed controversial by some.
\n-Learn about Carver\u2019s boyhood and see where he grew up.
\n-Trace the bumpy path of Carver\u2019s formal education through high school, to Simpson College, and then Iowa State.
\n-See the building where numerous inventions of Carver\u2019s were hatched, many associated with the peanut.
\n-Stand in a cotton field as you learn about Carver\u2019s greatest breakthrough in farming: crop rotation<\/p>\n