Urban Adventure Squad/Urban Learning and Teaching Center, commonly known as Urban Adventure Squad, is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(3) non-profit education organization specializing in outdoor learning. We use the city as a classroom to connect students to their neighborhoods with hands-on, standards-aligned activities relating to science, history, social studies, math, art, engineering, and
​English Language Arts. We offer in-school and out-of-school programming, train teachers in outdoor learning,
and participate in school-based and city-wide community events. 

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"What inspires me to help support UAS is how the programs they create . . . help children learn about so much of their environment through the activities both in the classroom and outside of the classroom year round."

                                    -Monthly Donor

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​Urban Adventure Squad is proud to be recognized as a highly trusted, critical nonprofit in the Greater Washington region by SpurLocal, formerly Catalogue for Philanthropy.​

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The Squad as a StoryMap

Isabel Liu, a junior at Georgetown University, selected Urban Adventure Squad as the organization she would focus on for her Media and Social Justice class during fall semester 2025. Isabel immersed herself in equitable outdoor learning by interviewing our team, talking to Squad families, and joining us at our partner schools to see what curriculum-aligned outdoor learning looks like during the school day.