Wow!

Easy to employ so few when you dont rarely make games anymore

Okay so it’s very much not FOSS (we’re talking upwards of a couple hundred $ / month) but Esri’s StoryMap feature through their ArcGIS software suite would allow you to do exactly this. Having used StoryMaps though, this is by far the most comprehensive way to do something of this nature. You can upload GPS data directly to the software, export the map to the ArcGIS Online suite, then create a storymap from there. StoryMaps can be panned, animated, zoomed etc to your heart’s content.

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/

Your other solution would be with QGIS, which is FOSS. I don’t think they have a StoryMaps analogue, but I’ve heard “QGIS2WEB” sort of works like that.

https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/web_mapping_with_qgis2web.html

I believe Google Earth Engine also has this capability but it’s only free for academic & research use. Also NOT FOSS.

https://earthengine.google.com/

For high school: your body will really want to go to sleep at 2 am every morning, but don’t. Go to bed at a regular time. You might not like it at night, but in the morning your body will love you.

For college: Don’t cheat. It might be super tempting, but if you’re caught even once, the consequences are so much worse than in high school. Plus you’re setting yourself up for failure in the future. Do you really wanna be the guy who cheated their way through college only to end up with functionally zero experience in a real-world scenario where you have to apply what the job thought you learned? Hell, most jobs will probably see right through you and deny you on the spot.