Digital Explorer is a social enterprise that engages young people in global issues for a better future. Our unique projects utilize the latest communication technologies to bring the frontier of science and exploration live to the classroom – the result is empowering youth interaction like never before. The Academy of Exploration is the place where this connection happens – the place where a journey of a few becomes a gateway for learning and understanding for many.
Digital Explorer is a pioneer in educational expeditions where pupils are at the centre. We take select groups of talented young communicators on curriculum-based expeditions, kit them up with the latest recording and communications equipment, facilitate their experience with teachers and broadcast their experiences to a global online audience – it’s direct pupil-to-pupil education LIVE from one corner of the world to the other. Unsurprisingly, pupils find it far easier to relate to someone their own age compared to adult presenters, journalists or politicians.
In order to generate greater connectivity between the exploration and educational worlds, Digital Explorer works with a number of partners including household names such as Google, HSBC, Catlin Group Ltd and Olympus as well as Governments in the UK and overseas, the British Council, the Royal Geographical Society as well as individual expeditions.
Our achievements include:
- First remote satellite broadcasts from a UK youth expedition back to the classroom
- Live video conferences between Antarctica and the UK classroom
- Award-winning educational websites with Offscreen Expeditions (receiving over 75,000 unique users and a combined press audience of 5million)
- Winner of Royal Geographical Society Innovative Geography Teaching Award
- Training over 600 educators and expedition leaders in generating educational resources using Google Earth
- Over 230,000 hits on Digital Explorer-designed expedition websites for 2041 – an organization dedicated to the preservation of Antarctica
- Chaired sessions and spoken at international conferences on education, exploration and technologies including at Royal Geographical Society and BETT
- LIVE Educational expeditions from 5 continents with a combined international audience of 250,000 students