Best class trip ever: Grade 8 PEI students visit Banff, Lake Louise

School trips are always fun. But Canada's "coolest school trip" certainly tops visiting a local zoo or science centre.

Seventeen students from Montague Intermediate School in Prince Edward Island won a nationwide contest granting them the ultimate class trip: a four-day all-expenses paid trip to the Rockies.

The seventeen students in Megan Morrison's 8C class submitted a 10-minute video to the Canada's Coolest School Trip contest. Their creative re-telling of the 1864 Fathers of Confederation meeting in Charlottetown beat out 67 other submissions from across Canada.

Watch their winning submission:

"We are thrilled that Montague Intermediate School from Prince Edward Island created such an interesting, well produced and yes, humorous video, that allowed you to be the lucky class here today," said Banff Mayor Karen Sorensen at a dinner at the top of the Banff Gondola the night the students arrived, according to the Banff Crag and Canyon.

The contest, intended to nurture the connection between young Canadians and the nation's "treasured places," was a collaboration between Parks Canada, Nature Canada, the Historica-Dominion Institute, Brewster Travel Canada and Banff Lake Louise Tourism. It is also part of Park Canada's My Parks Pass program.

"[They] will experience the ultimate Canadian Rockies adventure packed with exciting activities, including a trip to the top of Sulphur Mountain on the Banff Gondola, storytelling while on the Banff Lake Cruise, and sightseeing at some of the most beautiful places in the Mountain Parks, reads a press release. "They will also visit the renowned Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park, where the winning class will sleep over at the Glacier View Inn and venture onto the Athabasca Glacier onboard a massive Ice Explorer on the Columbia Icefield Glacier Adventure."

"They are a really good group and they have never been here so for me it is just really neat to see people who have never be here come and experience," Jayda Craig, one of the minds behind the contest, told the Banff Crag and Canyon. "They are here for four days and we are just going to rock it."