Bowling Green Elementary Students Surprised with a Field Trip to the Corvette Museum

If the Corvette is to remain relevant 70 years from now, it’s going to have to appeal to new generation after new generation.

That means reaching youngsters now like the ones attending Warren Elementary School in Bowling Green, Kentucky, home of the Corvette Assembly Plant.

Tuesday morning, students at the school learned they’ll soon be visiting the National Corvette Museum on a free field trip.

To help get the students in the mood for the tour, the local Corvette Club parked several Corvettes at the entrance to the school.

“When the buses pulled in, all the kids just saw and they were just looking at the windows – it was so exciting for them to see that,” Warren Elementary Principal Marlow Hazard told WBKO.com.

After a morning announcement explaining to the students why the Corvettes were parked at the school, a few of them were selected to go out and see the sports cars up close and personal

“The Corvette community came out large, not just here locally, but across the United States to say, we know that we need to inspire the next generation of Corvette enthusiasts,” NCM President and CEO Sharon Brawner said.

The field trip is a result of an NCM campaign called “Fund a Field Trip” that will use donations and other funds to make it possible for youngsters to visit the museum who might not otherwise get to do so.

NCM President and Ceo Sharon Brawner

“As a 501(c)(3)…we’re a different type of nonprofit,” Brawner said. “Instead of us providing dollars into the community, we generally are receiving those dollars to help us take care of our collection, to preserve the history, that’s what we do. But we wanted to take it to the next step, so we asked our community to give and that has made the funding possible.”

Once they’ve visited the NCM, each student will get a free Hot Wheels version of a Corvette to take home with them.

“To be able to tell them, they’re all gonna get a Corvette is really fun,” Hazard said. “We know that students start to develop ideas of what am I going to do when I grow up when we’re all very little. You’re drawing pictures of yourself as a fireman, or a policeman – things that are much more conventional in our thoughts as young people. But we want to inspire them to know that there are other options, and never is it too early to start inspiring and letting them start to understand that you have lots of diverse options in your career path.”

If you’d like to donate to the Fund a Field Trip program, click on the link at corvettemuseum.org.

Check out the news report video from WBKO.com

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