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April 9, 2008 YMTA meeting minutesApril 15, 2008 Greeting YMTA supporters, The Youth Maritime Training Association’s regular monthly meeting was held at Compass Courses - 110 W. Dayton St. Ste.101 Edmonds, WA 98020 on Wednesday, April 9. Board of Directors in attendance included Gary Stauffer, CC Conklin, Carleen See; Advisors included Jim Underhill, Marcia Leckie, John Sabella, Diana Parker, and Gary Frankel. Guests included; Julie Keim (Compass Courses), Sarah Little (Military Sealift Command), Andy Gale and Rob Sanderson (Northwest Maritime Center) and Kai Wallin (WSU Extension, Jefferson Co.). A quorum was not present. Our next meeting is next scheduled for May 14, 2008 at Foss Maritime Company, 660 W Ewing St, Seattle, Washington - 98119 starting at 1700 (5:00 pm) and ending at 1815 (6:15 pm). Message from the President - Fund raising – Since the March meeting YMTA received a $200 donation from John and Anita Crawford, recently retired from Foss Maritime and $1,500 from the three Prowler longliners owned by John Winther. Join me in thanking them for their donations. The day after our March meeting we received $1,000 donation from Viking Bank thanks to Ozzie Kvithammer and $1,000 donation from Western Towboat Company thanks to Ric Shrewsbury and Jeff Slesinger. We are now at 60% of our $30,000 goal. - I thank Julie Keim for hosting our meeting this afternoon. Compass Courses Maritime Training is a Registered Vocational School with the state of Washington and is certified as a Women's Business Enterprise for the State program and as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise for the Federal program. They currently have 17 approved courses and are celebrating their seven year anniversary this month. Compass Courses has the regions best collection of maritime training aides on display. Please check the website for Compass Courses at www.compasscourses.com to learn more. - Norm Manly, John Foster and I attended the Ship Operations Cooperative Program national conference in partnership with the Maritime Administration and U.S. Coast Guard entitled “Maritime and Intermodal Education for Primary and Secondary Schools in America - Onboard to a Future Career”. Gary talked at the Workshop V-B Maritime Community Support and presented the YMTA story/model and John spoke on Maritime Teacher Development and presented the BMA experience. Norm prepared and distributed his new YMTA flyer to entice SOCP members to sponsor the development of our new envisioned multimedia website. We made a number of contacts from the 13 of the 18 maritime high schools in attendance. In cooperation with BMA, we hope to partner with the Baltimore Maritime Industries Academy to exchange ideas, curricula, and visitations. Our contact is Walt Megonigal who works as a Management Consultant at MITAGS. Gary also made contact with Vince Corry, SOCP Co-Chair to discuss the possibility of SOCP support for the YMTA multi-media website for maritime career pathways. Vince encouraged us to submit a proposal to SOCP. Gary also was given the opportunity to show our video at the Monday evening dinner. We received a number of positive responses. The presentations will be available later either on a website or as a printed document. Gary attended a presentation on developing a marketing plan. - Mark your calendars! It is time to register for the 4th Annual What About Tomorrow? Career & College Fair sponsored by Arlington, Edmonds, Everett, Lakewood and Mukilteo School Districts and the Workforce Development Council Snohomish County. The Fair will be held on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 in the Main Arena at the Comcast Arena at the Everett Events Center. If you are interested in participating in this event, please RSVP for your free booth by mailing (to the address listed below), faxing (425-385-4092) or emailing ksullivan@everettsd.org the registration form. For additional information, please contact Karen Sullivan at 425-385-4065. - Ken Passé spoke to two classes at Auburn Mountain View High School, another of those very up-to-date, three-year old schools. The classes were from the CAD/Engineering Technology program. The 0800 class was the introductory course for the sophomores, the juniors and seniors in the more advanced (and later) 0900 class were very interested. I opened both presentations with a discussion about the broad maritime career possibilities, showed the YMTA video, then focused on the more specific California Maritime information. Instructor Tim Scott and counselor Carollyn Hanson were very good about asking questions and prompting me in areas that I might have overlooked. Mountain View has a Marine Biology program and although I didn't meet the instructor, counselor Carollyn said she would talk to her and pass along the YMTA brochure. Mountain View is also connected with Learning for Life. - John Sabella completed our YMTA video in time for Norm and I to take copies to the Youth Maritime Conference at MITAGS. We received 100 copies. I have distributed some to our supporters. John commented that we should proceed with developing a proposal to SOCP for funding to support the development of our new multi-media website for maritime career pathways while it is fresh on the minds of SOCP leadership. Stauffer agreed to start working on a proposal as requested by Vince Corry, the Co-Chair of SOCP. Gary Stauffer YMTA
Treasure’s Report – Since our
March meeting we have written three checks for a total of $1,554.
Homer Smith Insurance policy# NOA1312763, May 15, 2008 until May 15, 2009 - $539.00 CC Conklin YMTA Committee reports – The following YMTA committees are your opportunity to help us reach our mission, vision and goals. YMTA Scholarship Committee – We have received the draft presentations for our three (3) YMTA Scholarship applicants this year. The committee members are encourage to comment on their drafts and how they might improve their presentation. We have four judges, John Clary, Marc Warner, Marcia Leckie, and Doug Mitschke with Ken Passé as an alternate. Final presentations will be held Saturday, April 19th at 9:00am at the Odyssey Maritime Center. Everybody is welcomed to see the presentations. Scholarship Committee: Terry Rustan, Charlie See, Justin Poulsen, Gary Stauffer, Norm Manly, CC Conklin and Scholarship Chair - Carleen See.
Carleen M. See Educational Partner Committee – No report. Grant Writing Committee – No report. Marketing Plan Committee – No report. YMTA Community Partner Program Involvement Committee – No report. YMTA Website Committee - Norm reports that he has added a PDF document to the YMTA website http://www.ymta.net/docs/YMTARedesign2008.pdf that has information regarding the re-design of the website. Please everyone go to the site to view the document and then send Norm an email or call him with your suggestions and comments. He would also like you to pass along addresses of website you find interesting and that work well. No need to re-invent the wheel. The YMTA website is a dynamic, database driven website that has the capabilities of doing just about anything we require. After working on a couple of websites Norm says he has learned the importance of planning and when you are working with a database driven website the planning is even more important. It's much more difficult to go back and make changes or add features left out during the planning stage. Norm look forward to your suggestions and your help in making the YMTA website the best maritime information website on the planet. Norm Manly Maritime Career Profiles ad hoc committee – A short list of high school career counselors has been developed and will be used as the basis for a survey of those counselors for the definition of required and appropriate information to be included in the Counselor Package. Once that content information is defined, the committee will meet with Peter Phillips of Phillips Publishing, to begin work on the printed materials. DVD/Video Note: The John Sabella-produced YMTA video was shown to CAD/Technology classes in the Career Center at Auburn Mountain View High School on April 3rd. It was well received by students, teacher and counselors alike. A number of us received the following notice from the www.MaritimeJobSearch.com “… is the No. 1 job portal for employers, recruiters and job seekers that are specialized in the maritime and water transportation industry and related port and marina services. MaritimeJobSearch.com ultimate goal is to promote the maritime industry and to bring key stakeholders closer together via diverse collaborative projects.*Click http://www.maritimejobsearch.com/lists/?p=forward&uid=c3cf8625133bb4ab839f64daa728fbb4&mid=22 to view their latest newsletter. Ken Passé Community Partners Northwest Maritime Center and Wooden Boat Foundation – The Northwest Maritime Center is working on creating an Apprenticeship program for students who have come through our programs enabling them to continue in the field - by working in our Boat Shop, as mates on our vessels, and instructors within our programs. At the moment we are contacting organizations that already have apprenticeship programs set up so we do not re-create the wheel. We are interested in successful models that currently exist to see how they might fit with our organization. We are wondering if YMTA might have information and ideas on this that you could share with us. We are making it a primary focus to ensure that a student that comes through our maritime programs, with interest in the field, is given opportunity to continue building their skills to enter the maritime world. Currently we are the combination of two organizations - the first being the Wooden Boat Foundation that sprouted out of the Wooden Boat Festival thirty years ago. The idea was to provide year-round maritime programs for our community based on events that occur during the Festival. About fifteen years ago we worked with the Northwest School for Wooden Boat Building to build a replica longboat of those Captain Vancouver used to survey the Puget Sound in the 1700's. We have been doing youth and adult adventures on these since 1992. We also work with local high schools year-round through grant funding and just last year we started a new program with local 7th graders - getting all 7th graders at two local schools out on the longboats for maritime education. We are most excited about these longboats as being a model for teaching life enhancing skills as well as seamanship. The name of the programs that utilize these vessels is called the 'Puget Sound Explorers' - and Andy Gale is the PSE Program Manager and runs these programs. Other programs that we run - that I oversee as the Waterfront Program Manager are: - Messing About in Boats - for seven through ten year olds. In this summer camp we learn about boats, who works on them, what skills are needed and teach the basics regarding weather, knots, using a boat safely etc. This is a great entry into the boating world for youngsters - typically they move up into our Learn to Sail summer programs. - Learn to Sail - for youth and adult. Teaches basic through advanced skills in sailing. For the youth program we use 8' Optimists and 15' Vanguards sailing dinghies. For the adult program we use the 15' Vanguards as well as 26' Thunderbird keelboat sailboats. We also offer a women's only class. - High School Sailing Team - A way for high school students to continue sailing after our summer programs to continue building their skills and race competitively. - Schooner Martha - Sail Training - a Partnership program with the Schooner Martha Foundation. Schooner Martha is a 89' foot staysail schooner that does youth, family and adult sail training adventures around the Puget Sound and Gulf Islands. She is based out of Port Townsend. She only takes six participants at a time so the "crew" really feels a part of the ship for the time they are out. All crew help in all tasks aboard - navigating, steering, sail trim, cooking/cleaning etc. I am also responsible for bringing Tall Ships and education vessels to our large vessel pier at the NWMC dock to make available for public tours and program use. A few years ago the Wooden Boat Foundation combined forces with the Northwest Maritime Center (NWMC) whom has been fundraising for a new facility for the last ten years. The way it stands now is that our programs are all run through the Northwest Maritime Center with the Wooden Boat Foundation now being a true Foundation - in that it makes money through the Wooden Boat Festival, Wooden Boat Regatta's and our Wooden Boat Chandlery and streams this revenue into NWMC youth programs. The Northwest Maritime Center is very close to breaking ground at the end of Water Street to build a new facility - two 15,000 sq ft buildings - that will become a maritime campus. The first building will offer a larger chandlery, a large meeting room overlooking Port Townsend Bay for maritime events, a large maritime library and administration offices as well as a "shell house" for rowing shells and a demonstration shop for small boat building projects. The second building is all about education. There will be a large boat shop, large enough to build a 30' vessel, four classrooms and a pilot house that will be set up to be in communication with all the vessels that pass by our town yearly in route to Seattle and beyond. We are very excited about this project and are currently bursting out of our current facility - the Cupola House. Through our programs we want to create a pathway for youngsters to enter the maritime world and stay connected meanwhile learning about all the potential careers that exist in the field. Many of our programs make visits to local maritime trade's businesses to meet the people and see what it is they do to make a living. We have a culturally rich maritime community in town but similar to national issues we don't have a next generation being trained to fill these positions once the current employees retire. As we move into this facility we will have much more opportunity to offer maritime continuing education programs: Captains License classes, Celestial Navigation, Racing rules etc. In the meantime we are researching other organizations that are focusing on filling the gap between youth and maritime careers. YMTA is the perfect fit and we would love to figure out a way to partnership to help fill these gaps.
Rob Sanderson, Waterfront
Programs Manager Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society – Chuck Fowler forwarded a program announcement sent to him by friend Bob Steelquist, the education director at the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary office in Port Angeles. The program entitled “America’s Shipwreck Legacy” to be given at Seattle Aquarium on Tuesday - April 15 at 7:00pm presented by NOAA’s Maritime Heritage Program. Bob is a diver and marine archeologist himself and as a result the Sanctuary has an active education program in this subject area. PSMHS members will be meeting earlier in the day about some possible cooperative Society-NOAA marine archeology efforts, including a future dinner meeting presentation.
Gary Syverson Pacific Maritime Institute – No report. Pacific Science Center - No report. Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center - No report.
Cassandra Sandkam The Center for Wooden Boats – We are hosting this year’s Pacific Challenge on May 17th (and we will be looking for volunteers from the community). YMTA may want to host a booth at the event.
Courtney
Bartlett Northwest Seaport - No report.
Maritime Heritage Task Force – No report. Heritage Cultural Education Grant – No report. Learning For Life – YMTA and Learning for Life have started an Exploring post, which will give students an opportunity to tour local Ships, such as NOAA’s RAINIER. We have also partnered to bring maritime professionals into the classroom to talk with students about maritime careers. These speakers have motivated and inspired many students who are thinking of working in our local marine industry. Miranda Otjen invites members of YMTA to participate in the career fairs listed below. Anyone who is interested or has questions can contact me directly. So far I have only heard from Tom Dyer that he will be available for a couple of the fairs. This is an important YMTA supported program. We need more of you to volunteer to speak. -
Aki Kurose Middle School, South Seattle 5/9/08 8-10am - Dimmitt Middle
School, Renton 5/21/08 8-11am - Madison Middle
School, West Seattle 5/22/08 8-10am - South Lake Alternative High
School, West Seattle 5/28/08 8-10:45am - Olympic Middle
School, Auburn 6/5/08 12-2pm - Cascade Middle
School, Auburn 6/13/08 12-2pm
Ballard Seafood Fest 2008 2007 Seafood Fest Summary: - Added a Maritime segment to Seafood Fest, with the goal of introducing and educating the public in regards to the rich and vital Maritime industries and heritage of the Pacific Northwest. Organizations including the YMTA, BMA and Center for Wooden Boats, as well as others, participated. - Featured boat captains from "Deadliest Catch" that attracted attendees both local and from Canada. - Increased emphasis on celebrating Ballard’s
Scandinavian Heritage, featuring a variety of musical and dance groups on a
third community stage that highlighted some of these cultural traditions. Growth - in 2005 the festival guide was an 8-page newspaper, distributed to local businesses. In 2007, we produced 60,000 20 page guides and distributed through local newspapers. This year, we'll produce 75,000 guides, with even larger event distribution through newspapers and businesses. By all barometers (including an early "sell out" of 1,800 lbs of salmon at the salmon BBQ), last years event was the most attended in it's history. - Expanded activities for children to attract families to our community event. Activities included (5) inflatable slides, the Pacific Science Centers Mobile Learning Center, The Center for Wooden Boats offered boat building (a hit!), a climbing wall, Ballard Firehouse demonstrations and fun with water and more. - Eco-Friendly: The Seafood Fest event in 2007 went carbon neutral. Sunergy Systems solar powered generator powered the family stage, with the help of many volunteers, 1.2 tons of food and paper waste were separated and composted, bottles and cans recycled and cooking grease collected for conversion to fuel by Biodiesel. - Business sponsors were promoted through posters, website listing, event info. booth listings, event brochure advertisement. - Financial: 2007 monies raised for Ballard's Chamber of Commerce was the most ever raised at the event. 2008 Maritime - Expand: Participating Maritime organizations in number and type.- Collectively: Present Maritime segment in one locale to magnify segments presence and synergies.- Educate / Engage / Promote: Encourage Maritime organizations to educate and engage the festival public, while also promoting their organization and cause.Lo Reichert Tall Ships – Ensign Derrick Miller contacted the Tall Ships planning group. He reported to me that YMTA can get involved either by volunteering to work a certain aspect of the event, or by obtaining a booth. He was not sure if the booth will have a cost associated with it. However, the contacts for both routes are below: Volunteering: Sue Schaeffer - Sue@SchaefferResources.com Ensgin Derrick Miller Seattle Maritime Academy – No report.
NOAA News – No report.
California Maritime Academy - The admissions process continues for the 2008 incoming freshmen. The Admissions Department's Open House for new students and families will be held on Saturday, April 12th. At this point, more than 350 people are expected at the event. The 4th Annual Gala fundraising event took place last weekend in San Francisco. This dinner/auction, supported by Northwest organizations including Marine Resources Group, Harley Marine, Trident Seafoods, Holland America Line and Captain Taylor Campbell of Coastal Transportation, was the most successful event yet. It is anticipated that more than $110,000 will have been raised to support student scholarships and other priority academic programs. Below four of the five BMA graduates attending California Maritime Academy.
They are from left to right, Michael Hess, Nicolas Parker, Kealan Haynie and Alvin Garcia. Edward Ehler was in Seattle at the time of the picture. Kealan, Alvin, and Edward are YMTA scholarship winners.
Sailing Through School – No report.
Virginia V Foundation – No report.
Sound Experience - No report.
Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority (GHHSA) – Les sent us a notice of their lates newsletter for the Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain. He welcomes everyone to the Spring 2008 edition of eCurrents, the online newsletter of the tall ships Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain. You’ll see the latest news about the ships that change people’s lives. If you’re unsure why you’re receiving this newsletter, you likely signed up for it at our website, http://www.historicalseaport.org. Do you have feedback? Email us! Table of Contents
Spectrum Subsea International – No report. Todd
Christensen Northwest Marine Trades Association – Gary attend the NMTA Marine Tech Committee. Marine boatyard companies are also having difficulty in attracting new employees. They are interested in working with YMTA schools and particularly BMA to set up summer interns with the goal to attract new employees to their industry. Gary will provide them with contact information for YMTA Schools and SPS CTE shop teachers to identify potential students interested in working for boat repair company. Miles Williams Educational Partners Edmonds Homeschool Resource Center – No report Harbor High School – Sound of Science Camp is over and it was the best one yet. Nice to see our programs continue to grow and improve. We had nineteen students and eight staff. Camp was at Camp Burton on Vashon Island. We had two longboats and amazing sunshine for six of the seven days. Thanks to YMTA for their contribution to this program. I got a nice call from a parent this morning who was amazed at the growth of his son on returning from camp. Next stop Pacific Challenge.
Seattle Sea Scouts – The Seattle Boy Scouts of America has decided to transfer title of the training boat SS Propeller to the Spirit of The Propeller, a 501(C) Corporation. This will allow the existing group of scouts to maintain access to the boat. The president of The Spirit of the Propeller is Al Bruce. Al has headed this group of scouts for many years. This transfer will allow the training program for the Sea Scouts to continue uninterrupted.
Anacortes High School – No report.
Henry Foss High School – The Foss High School Marine Technology program is now well into the second semester with approximately 50 students. We have been learning 12 volt electrical theory and working on our electrical trainers. At the start of the semester the students were working on outboard motors (water pumps, tune-ups, etc.). We still have a lot to go over before the end of the year, sterndrive engines, sterndrives, troubleshooting, to name a few. Wayne
Miller Ballard Maritime Academy – The students have a number of activities coming up this spring. Some of the BMA students in the Marine Science class just returned from a one week science tour week in ecology of Costa Rica habitats, teachers are planning weekend cruise aboard the Schooner Zodiac in the San Juan Islands. Students will also go on an ocean science cruise aboard the Carlyn, six students have been selected to go on the NOAA Washington DC trip scheduled in mid May. The Juniors are completing their ROV project that will conclude with a competition at the Ballard Pool. Jim McManus has set up a BST STCW class with NPFVOA for up to five senior students just after graduation. Plans are underway for a BMA float for May 17 parade. We need companies to come forward to offer summer interns for BMA juniors. Please schedule to attend the BMA annual dinner and auction on June 6 where we will honor our graduating seniors.
Hoquiam High School – No report.
Puget Sound Skills Center – The Highline School District informed Joe Weiss and Sue Shields, the Director of the Puget Sound Skills Center, that the Marine Technology program is approved to include an Advanced Placement Environmental Science component in the curriculum. This is the first time that a PSSC program has been approved to offer AP and it is only the second AP/CTE skills center program in the state. That will be changing as OSPI's John Altman is promoting AP credit as a means of increasing rigor among appropriate CTE courses. More skills center programs throughout Washington will be submitting revised & improved syllabi to the College Board. This also means that the Marine Technology Program will now be known as AP Environmental & Marine Science. The program curriculum will continue to emphasize CTE skills related to the marine transportation industry. Seamanship, navigation & marine safety will remain a significant part of the course as will career-related skills such as creating resumes, cover letters, conducting mock interviews, and internships. Though the last few weeks have been somewhat chaotic with WASL testing disrupting the schedules, students have nonetheless begun to prepare for the annual Seahurst Beach Survey through the Seattle Aquarium's Citizen Science program. Students visited the Aquarium for CS night, completed their first day of classroom training with Aquarium personnel, and practiced survey skills on the beach. They have also been preparing our thousands of Coho salmon for release by tranquilizing the fish and clipping adipose fins. The first release date will be in late April. Spring Break is April 7-11.
Ocean Research College Academy – No report. Ardi Kveven, Director Seattle Public Schools Career and Technical Education Program – Career and Technical Education Program for Seattle Public Schools held a summit with industry and labor entitled "Success for All Students: Exploring Career and Technical Educational Opportunities." The Summit was attended by two hundred people many from our local industries, Seattle Public Schools and Seattle Community College District. This event featured nationally recognized expert J.D. Hoye, president of the National Academy Foundation, who gave a passionate presentation in support of career and technical education and career academies. A panel of recent high school graduates shared their experiences and education from CTE courses. Most importantly the SPS Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson and Carla Santorno, Chief Academy Officer both publicly supported CTE program.
Gary Stauffer Close of meeting - Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to attend the YMTA meeting. Be sure to visit the YMTA website http://www.ymta.net/ and sign in as a volunteer. The next scheduled YMTA meeting is set for Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at Foss Maritime Co, 660 W Ewing St, Seattle, WA 98119 starting at 1700 (5:00 pm) and ending at 1815 (6:15 pm).
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