Honda Center was transformed into an “electric playground” on Tuesday as more than 16,000 students and educators from 160 local schools attended the Anaheim Ducks 16th annual First Flight Field Trip.
The largest component of the club’s award-winning S.C.O.R.E. program (Scholastic Curriculum of Recreation & Education), the event and accompanying classroom materials aimed to help third- to sixth-graders explore the elements of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) through design-based problem solving techniques.
This year’s curriculum – entitled “Light the Lamp” – allowed students to study the properties of electricity and the science behind how the red light flashes after a goal is scored during a hockey game.