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Sawyer School Students Will Travel the World with VR

With the help of Cellcom’s Virtual Reality (VR) Kits for Classrooms program, students at Sawyer School in Sturgeon Bay will use VR to travel around the world and beyond.

Virtual reality gives teachers the power to take their classroom anywhere in the world, fully immersing students in a lesson and allowing them to experience new places and explore new ideas. Erik Tauschek, teacher at Sawyer School, took his students to different parts of the world and let them explore while sharing information about the new places and having them answer questions. They will also visit the solar system to prepare for an upcoming science unit.

Tauschek said, “The Cellcom VR Kit program was really exciting for the students and myself to use. I felt like this was giving the students an experience that they never have had before. We went to some places that they may never get the opportunity to go to. The students were constantly engaged and didn’t want to stop exploring different places of the world because they were fascinated by it.”

Cellcom sees VR as an opportunity to use its technology to enhance learning and give students a greater understanding. Cellcom launched its VR kit program in October 2016. Teachers throughout Cellcom’s service area are able to reserve a bank of 15 smartphones and receive free accompanying virtual reality viewers. The schools have a week to use the VR kits to experience new places and explore new ideas. To learn more, visit cellcom.com/classroom.