BCMS Presents at the Teaching With Small Boats Conference at the Alexandria Seaport Foundation
Over one hundred representatives from fifty four organizations from across the United States and Canada that use building, sailing, rowing and paddling small boats to teach America's youth worked together for three days at the Alexandria Seaport Foundation. The desired outcomes of the conference were:
• Stronger connections between programs
• Sharing of ideas leading to more effective programs
• Gather best practices for future reference
• Online materials for future reference by existing and new programs
• Identify and gather metrics on program effectiveness
• Improved collaboration and cooperation
• Pilot project to demonstrate collaboration
• Creation of a national organization
Over 100 participants attended the three day Teaching With Small Boats Conference
Some of the organizations and participants included:
* Dick Wagner - Center for Wooden Boats, Seattle, WA
* Bruce MacKenzie - USS Constellation Museum, Baltimore, MD
* Rich Hilsinger - WoodenBoat School - Brooklin, ME
* Matt Murphy - WoodenBoat Magazine, Brooklin, ME
* Nick Patch - Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT
* Laurie Streble - North Carolina Maritime Museum, Beaufort, NC
* Dana Hewson - Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT
* Tucker Moore - Hotchkiss K8, Hotchkiss, CO
* Michael Johns - Hull Lifesaving Museum, Hull, MA
* Dan Southerland - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD
* Art Sulzer - Maritime for Primary and Secondary Education Coalition, Glen Mills, PA
* Richard Boutwell - Northrop Grumman: Newport News Apprentice School, Newport News, VA
* David Cockey - Museum Small Craft Association, Rochester, MI
* Marc Pettingill - Frederick Douglass Isaac Myers Maritime Park, Baltimore, MD
* Adam Green - Rocking the Boat, Bronx, NY
* Carol Goddard - Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Halifax, Dartmouth, NS
Alex Nagle, and Amy and Rich Eisenberg attended the conference, giving a presentation about the programs at Erie's Bayfront Center for Maritime Studies.
Joe Youcha, the executive director of the Alexandria Seaport Foundation.
Dick Wagner, Founding Director of the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, Washington.
Dinner Saturday night was at the Old Dominion Yacht Club and included an enchanting impromptu presentation by Joe Filipowski, of S.A.I.L. Straight Ahead In Life, from Suffolk, VA.