Ship's Log: Maritime High School

Maritime High School Collaborator Spotlight: Brian Kirk of WA State Department of Ecology

My name is Brian Kirk. I’m fortunate to be the Spill Prevention Section Manager with the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Spill Prevention, Preparedness, and Response program. Washington has some of the strongest laws in the country to ...

Plastics Are a Problem: Our Unit on Plastic Pollution

By Chanel Young, Maritime High School Student Blogger Sometime after we returned from winter break, we started working on our social media campaign (humanities class) and ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) boat design challenge (STEM class) to present at our winter ...

Maritime High School Collaborator Spotlight: Amanda Carr of Plauché & Carr LLP

When I learned of plans to open a regional Maritime High School using hands-on, project-based learning to create access to local maritime careers, I jumped at the opportunity to serve as a Community Collaborator. A fourth-generation resident of South Seattle, ...

New School, New Start at MHS

By Giselle Esparza, MHS Student Blogger My name is Giselle Esparza, and my experience at Maritime High School has been great! Previously, I attended a massive school in Arizona where it was always hot, everyone was sweaty, and we just ...

Maritime High School Collaborator Spotlight: Wilbur “JC” Clark of Pacific Pile & Marine

My name is Wilbur Clark. I am the Chief Operating Officer for Pacific Pile & Marine, a heavy-civil marine construction firm based in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle. I have been in the marine construction industry for 14 years since ...

Onboard the Admiral Jack

By Mara Mersai, Maritime High School Student Blogger Hello! Mara Mersai here. Sometime after the beginning of this quarter, we were introduced to voyage planning, where we learned about the different roles within voyage planning and then went on trips ...

Introducing the Maritime High School Bloggers!

Hello! My name is Mara Mersai, and I am one of the bloggers for Maritime High School (MHS)! What interested me to choose MHS is that it focuses more on fieldwork experiences and science, and I wanted to work more ...

Field Trip On a Boat? Yes!

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 ...

Maritime High School Collaborator Spotlight: Lindsay Holladay Van Damme of foundry10

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 ...

Maritime High School Collaborator Spotlight: Joe Youcha of Building to Teach

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 ...