Student Life

Travel with other IA students!

 

Dear Parents and Guardians,

 

Your student is invited to join an upcoming educational travel experience abroad!  These opportunities are open to all Innovation Academy students. These trips are not sponsored by Innovation Academy or Fulton County Schools; they are a non-school affiliated trip being organized by EF Education First, an accredited organization. Curious about the EF Tours experience? Watch this short video to learn more! 

 

We are thrilled to inform you that EF Tours is organizing multiple exciting trips for our students, offering them valuable educational and experiential opportunities. 

  

Summer 2025 Tours

 

South Korea

Group Leader: Daniel Huntley, huntleydc@fultonschools.org

 

Expedition to Australia and New Zealand (June 2025)
Group Leader: Heather Nilson, nilsonh@fultonschools.org

Join us on a 15-day tour of New Zealand and Australia. Highlights of the trip include visiting Auckland, a dolphin cruise through the Bay of Islands, exploring mangrove forests of the Sunshine Coast, relaxing on the beach in Surfer’s Paradise, and exploring Sydney. Parents and siblings are welcome to join us on this bucket-list adventure!

Trip information and enrollment page: Australia and New Zealand

 

Switzerland & Germany

Group Leader: Jeremy Fouts, foutsj@fultonschools.org

 

Iceland & Global Leadership Sumit

Group Leaders: Margaret Garth & Kathryn Paxton 

 *On this trip, students will attend the EF Global Leadership conference in Berlin, and then travel to Iceland to explore. Because this is a specialized trip, we don’t have a tour page up and running yet. We will have our interest meeting in Fall of 2024. If you are interested in this trip, please email Garthm@fultonschools.org and I will add your name to our interested travelers list!   (EF’s Global Leadership Summit)

Innovation Academy offers one Georgia High School Association (GHSA) sport - eSports. However, students can participate in a GHSA sport at their home school as long as they are not already participating in eSports at IA. 

Click here for the FCS policy on Innovation Academy students playing sports at their home zoned schools.

Students need to work with the athletic department and coaches at their home school to find out about tryouts, practices, and any other procedures or policies surrounding the sport they want to participate in.

Once a student is accepted onto the team, the home school Athletic Director and Data Clerk will need to add a partial line of enrollment for the IA athlete so the home school has access to the student's records and contact information for athletic purposes.

A student-athlete may be asked to complete the GHSA Transfer Student Eligibility Form and will need a copy of the policy statement showing that Innovation Academy students can play sports at their home school. This form should be completed by the home school.

Most students will need to take a virtual class during 8th period in order to leave on time to participate in their home school sport. 

• Requesting to take 8th period virtually - Virtual Period Change Request Form  
• Request to be off-campus during virtual period - Off Campus Contract Form