By Alyce Flanagan, High School Sailing Team Coach, and Ace Spragg, Adult Programs Manager The Port Townsend High School Sailing Team is in full swing this fall, despite the blustery weather! We have 23 students on the team—a record number! They are split into two groups and each group practices two days a week after school with
By Nancy Israel, Education Program Manager In October and November this year, up to 240 8th graders from six middle schools representing diverse communities south of Seattle have been given the opportunity to leave their school campus for the day to learn aboard Admiral Jack, Northwest Maritime Center’s new 40-foot floating classroom. It’s been at
I have dedicated my career to inspiring the next generation of ocean-lovers. From feeding wolf eels underwater and talking with guests as an aquarium interpretive diver, to answering questions about deep sea volcanoes with classrooms aboard a research vessel fifty miles from shore, I pursue ways to expand how youth and their communities connect with
My name is Joe Youcha. I’m the Founder and Director of Building To Teach, a train-the-trainer program for hands-on math instructors, and a proud community collaborator of Maritime High School. Building To Teach reintroduces the building process as a context for math instruction, and I’m excited about the opportunity to utilize my experience to support
By Colleen O’Brien (NWMC Instructor for the PTMA) You know that moment when perspective happens? When enough time has passed to inform your opinion, your success (or failure)? That’s where we are with the Port Townsend Maritime Academy (PTMA), which started its third school year this fall… third year despite the pandemic! Success? Absolutely! As
By Tyson Trudel, Maritime Education Manager After months of work and through the combined efforts of the lead partners—Highline Public schools, Northwest Maritime Center, Duwamish River Clean-up Coalition (DRCC), and Port of Seattle—Maritime High School officially launched on September 2! In the opening weeks of school, students have explored the interim campus in Des Moines and have started to explore
We are excited to be partnering with the Port of Port Townsend this summer to provide Dock Attendants for Point Hudson! Four young people, some of whom have been students in our Port Townsend Maritime Academy program, have been working directly with Point Hudson staff since early July helping with arriving boats’ dock lines, greeting
What started as a substitute race for the second year of cancelling the Race to Alaska, became an adventure that blew away expectations and had racers and fans alike enamored in new ways of Washington’s home waters, the tenacity and skill of the teams, and how we might all be a little more connected than
By Kelley Watson of West Sound Technical Skills Center and the Port Townsend School District Needless to say, the two staff and fifteen students from this year’s Port Townsend Maritime Academy crew will never, ever forget this school year. As the pandemic raged around the globe, day after day, the Maritime Academy carried on as
As a company that started tending to the Seattle waterfront in 1905 and has been a fixture of the Duwamish River community for the 116 years since, you might understand our feeling of responsibility to share in shaping the future for the young people of our community. We are Manson Construction Company, and we are eager partners