Ship's Log: Maritime High School

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 ...

The First Month of School at Maritime High School

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 ...

Maritime High School Collaborator Spotlight: Thomas Barrett of Manson Construction Co.

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 ...