STUDENTS AND FAMILIES Outreach to children and families is a central aspect of our work, and we successfully ramped up this activity in our centennial year, with the goal of establishing a new baseline for broader youth engagement. During this year, more than five thousand students had the opportunity to enjoy Vizcaya through Miami-Dade Public Schools' Cultural Passport and Museum Education Program partnerships and other programs. Thanks to generous donor support, Vizcaya provided free admission to approximately three thousand students and free bus transportation to about fifty Miami-Dade County schools, most of which represented underserved communities. In addition, Vizcaya launched a new monthly family program during the centennial, and each month the museum provided a community-based organization with one hundred free family passes, building on a several-year tradition of ensuring accessibility. Vizcaya also established a regular program for hosting summer camps, accommodating more than 650 campers ages five to eighteen during the summer of 2017, with many of these groups receiving free bus transportation and admission.
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