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Silicon Valley Holidays

United States
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Duration

8 Days/ 7 Nights

Tour Type

Daily Tour

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Unlimited

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Overview

Embark on a STEM trip to the innovation and technology hub of the USA, Silicon Valley. See the head office of tech giants such as Intel and Google. Fly from your chosen destination to sunny San Fransisco. Interact with some of the world’s biggest and most influential technology companies to gain insight into these top businesses.

Interact with some of the world’s biggest and most influential technology companies to gain insight into these top businesses. Our Silicon Valley Tour Package offer a wide range of educational camps and activities such as the Digital Media camp at Stanford University. Choose from their fully customisable programs exploring topics such as coding, robotics, music production and fashion design!

Silicon Valley Tour Package abroad aims to spark the inner innovator within your students. By visiting businesses that shape our world, and the famous Silicon Valley, your students will leave having had a rewarding learning experience encouraging them in their future business endeavours.

 

Silicon Valley Holidays – Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island is the #1 attraction in San Francisco, and you can see it for yourself! Make your way to Fisherman’s Wharf on day 1 where you can pick up your tickets for your Alcatraz Tour. The next morning, get ready to see where it all began! An Incredible Adventures guide will take you back in time and drive you into the future on this educational tech tour of Silicon Valley.

Alcatraz is a must-see for any traveler visiting San Francisco. You’ll take the ferry out to the island, with amazing views of the San Francisco skyline, Golden Gate Bridge, and Angel Island. Upon arrival, you’ll learn a brief history of “The Rock” and then head up to the prison. You’ll be equipped with an audio tour titled “Doing Time”, in which you’ll hear interviews from former inmates and learn more history about Alcatraz. You may explore for as long as you want (the ferry departs for the mainland approximately every 30-40 minutes). The Ferry tour generally takes people about four and a half hours. Don’t forget your jacket – it can get chilly out on the bay!

Silicon Valley Holidays

Learn how technology is used around the world at the Computer History Museum and the Intel Museum. Inspire future engineers and learn about the beginnings of the computer chip, and it’s layers of complex circuitry. Have your students learn to code with the museum’s interactive displays and understand how Intel was established. These museums will give your students a broad understanding of how technology, innovation and new discoveries can shape business in today’s world.

The museum of science, art and human perspective encourages the ongoing exploration of science, art and business. Feed students curiosities at this high-tech, advanced museum. Watch as students turn upside down in a curved mirror, step inside a miniature tornado mimicking the core of a thunderstorm and explore more than 650 exhibits. With exhibits to inspire the young entrepreneur, the Silicon Valley tour Package has endless displays to spark your students imaginations.

With programs in Coding & Artificial Intelligence, 3D Modeling & Design, Film & Photography, Game Design, Music Production, Robotics & Engineering, Silicon Valley Holidays will help your students get their start as designers, developers, programmers, engineers, animators, musicians, filmmakers, and creators. Stanford University alumni are entrepreneurs that have gone on to develop some of the most influential digital media companies in the world from Netflix to Google.

Silicon Valley Holidays

Silicon Valley, California is the more commonly known name for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. Silicon Valley is most popular for being home to thousands of tech start-up companies and headquartering many of the largest high-tech companies in the world such as Google, Apple, Intel and many more.

While Silicon Valley is known for being the hub of high-tech innovation, there are many other things to see and do while visiting this Northern California gem. From enjoying a glass of wine at our local vineyards and wineries to hiking mountain trails and enjoying the rides at our theme parks, there is something to do for everyone in your family. Take some time to explore our site and learn about everything there is to see and do in Silicon Valley, California!

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Highlights

  • Silcon Valley Tour
  • Alcatraz Island
  • Apple Headquarters
  • Apple Park “The Spaceship”
  • Steve Jobs’ Garage
  • Googleplex Campus, Store & Android Statue Garden
  • Intel Museum and Headquarters
  • Flagship Tesla Showroom
  • Computer History Museum
  • The Tech Museum of Innovation
  • Facebook HQ
  • HP Garage
  • Beam Store
  • b8ta store

Itinerary

Day 1 - Arrive at Silicon Valley, California

Evening free for shopping. Night stay in Silicon Valley.

Day 2 - Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island is the #1 attraction in San Francisco, and you can see it for yourself! Make your way to Fisherman’s Wharf on day 1 where you can pick up your tickets for your Alcatraz Tour.Alcatraz is a must-see for any traveler visiting San Francisco. You’ll take the ferry out to the island, with amazing views of the San Francisco skyline, Golden Gate Bridge, and Angel Island.

Day 3 - Apple Headquarters & Park “The Spaceship”

Spen time at 1 infinite loop sign and then pop into the Apple company store, which was designed by Jony Ive, Chief Design Officer at Apple. The store at 1 infinite loop has very select (very expensive) Apple branded items you won’t find anywhere else.

Apple Park, On the ground floor there will be a 2,386-square-foot cafe and 10,114-square-foot store, which allows visitors to view and purchase the newest Apple products. It sounds amazing and as soon as it opens I’m sure it will be top of the everyone’s tech tour list!

Day 4 - Steve Jobs’ Garage, HP Garage & Intel Museum-Headquarters

Steve Wozniak insists that Apple started not in the garage of this house, but in the bedroom! It is here in the 70s that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak put together the order for the world’s first commercial personal computer, the Apple I.

The HP Garage is where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard established the now legendary Hewlett-Packard partnership. HP owns the garage and has restored it to what it would have been in the 1930s.

The Intel museum gives you a behind the scenes in the high-tech world of California’s famed Silicon Valley, by dressing in a clean room suit and going inside an ultra-clean, highly automated silicon chip factory.

Day 5 - Googleplex Campus, Store & Android Statue Garden

The Googleplex campus looks just like it does in The Internship film – lots of young trendy employees getting around via a Google bike or driverless car or just walking looking intelligent. There is memorabilia everywhere you turn – the large oval “pin” from Google Maps and a Google Street View Car. Visiting the Android Lawn Statues (series of sculptures for each Operating System, which are named things like Donut, Ice Cream Sandwich and Marshmallow). It makes for quite colourful photo opps so make sure to bring your selfie stick. Adjacent to the garden is the company store where visitors can shop for reasonably priced Google clothing and accessories. Then drive down to the main entrance and soak up the atmosphere.

Day 6 - Computer History Museum & Tech Museum of Innovation

The Computer History Museum chronicles Silicon Valley’s history with a collection of over 1,100 historic artifacts, including some of the very first computers from the 1940s and 1950s.

The Tech Museum of Innovation is a real gem, especially for students. Students can involve in designing a robot, experiencing the Taiwan earthquake, growing alternative building materials out of mushrooms, programming a roller coaster (then riding it!) and more.

Day 7: Facebook HQ & Flagship Tesla Showroom

Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park has a handful of visitor parking spots near the campus entrance. Visitors are invited to walk out to the main campus's iconic "thumbs up" sign to take photos.

Enjoy thrilling experience of Self Driving Tesla Ride. You can combine this one with some upscale shopping in San Jose’s Santana Row, the Rodeo Drive of Silicon Valley, known hangout for the tech elite.

Day 8 - Departure from Silicon Valley

Evening proceed to airport and fly back with happy memories.

Included/Excluded

  • Economy airfare
  • Airport-Hotel-Airport Transfers
  • All transfers by AC Luxury coach,
  • 3*/4* Accomodation
  • All day Breakfast
  • Admission tickets
  • Professional guide/driver
  • Meals and beverages
  • Optional gratuities
  • Tipping

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