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May 12, 2010 YMTA meeting minutesMay 18, 2010 Greeting YMTA supporters, The Youth Maritime Training Association’s regular monthly meeting was held at Foss Maritime Company, 660 W Ewing St, Seattle, WA. Board of Directors in attendance included Gary Stauffer, CC Conklin, Ken Passé, Justin Borland, Justin Poulsen, Charlie See and Carleen See. In attendance were Advisors Diana Parker (retired Port of Seattle and parent of maritime student, Jeb Parr (Puget Sound Naval Shipyard), and Carl Ellis (Seattle Maritime Academy); and Guest Rob Holland (Port of Seattle Commissioner). With 7 Board members, a quorum was present. Our last meeting of the summer is scheduled for June 9, 2010 at Foss Maritime Company starting at 1700 (5:00 pm) and ending at 1815 (6:15 pm).
Message from the President - Both the 2010 Maritime Career Day on Thursday May 6 and the new Youth and Family Maritime Education Fair on Saturday May 8 were very successful and both were held at the Maritime Event Center as a Maritime Festival Week event. About 500 students and 200 adults attended the Career Day. Exhibitors who numbered about 24 promoted maritime career opportunities that included local and national maritime training programs. The new Maritime Education Fair on Saturday attracted over 3,000 visitors, it really helped that the Maritime Event Center had one of few open restroom facilities available to the public. Our YMTA maritime career pathway exhibit was busy both days. I was able to speak to many youth and adults about possible career pathways. Maritime Career Day marked the end of career fairs that I will attend until next fall. - Captain Richard Klein from the Council of American Master Mariners has scheduled their Third Annual Bob Magee Memorial Golf Tournament for Thursday September 2nd at Mt. Si Golf Course in Snoqualmie, which benefits YMTA. Justin Poulsen will organize our YMTA volunteers to help with the event. We need to help find sponsors for the event including donated auction items and to encourage our friends to organize foursomes to play in the tournament. - Our CPA, Greenwood, Ohlund & Co. completed our 2009 990EZ IRS tax forms today. Once I sign them, we will mail them to IRS to make our May 15th deadline for submission. Gary Stauffer YMTA Treasure’s Report – Since
our April meeting we have written six checks totaling $1,918 including $105 to
Compass Courses for the last of Hank Todd’s 2009 scholarship, $500 to Puget
Sound Voyaging Society, $700 to Holland American Lines for Reduced-Fair Cruise
Certificate for the BMA auction on June 4, $920.25 to Homer Smith Insurance for
our General Liability policy, $90 to Norm Manly to reimburse him for website provider
charges, and $102.75 to Carleen See to reimburse her for her Scholarship
Competition expenses. Justin Borland YMTA Committee reports – The following YMTA committees are your opportunity to help us reach our mission, vision and goals. YMTA Scholarship Committee – Our 2010 Norm Manly YMTA Maritime Educational Scholarship and Pacific Maritime Magazine Scholarship competition presentation was held Saturday, April 17, 2010 in Edmonds at Compass Course Maritime Training. Six high school students prepared and presented their 10-minute power point on our theme "Charting a Maritime Career. Parents, teachers and friends were there to support their favorite candidate. Judges were once again given the difficult task to award the final monetary awards. Six students received the following awards: Darrick Dickerson - $5,000 sponsored by the Seattle/Pacific Northwest Chapter of Council of American Master Mariners. Darrick is from ORCA and Cascade Senior High. He plans to major in marine biology at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Jaysen Niedermeyer - $3,000 sponsored by Foss Maritime Company, Jaysen is from Ballard High School Maritime Academy. He plans to pursue a career in marine biology at University of Hawaii Hilo. Eric Johnson - $1,000 sponsored by Viking Bank, Eric is from Mercer Island High School and attends BCC's Running Start. He plans to attend Cal Maritime to study marine engineering. Joanna Corey - $1,000 sponsored by Compass Courses Maritime Training, Joanna is from Ballard High School Maritime Academy and is planning to attend Western Washington University to pursue a career in fishery science. Levi White - $500 scholarship sponsored by John and Anita Crawford, and $500 Pacific Maritime Magazine Scholarship sponsored by Philips Publishing Group. Levi is from Burlington and enrolled in Anacortes School District and Bellevue College Running Start Program. He plans to pursue a career in Marine Transportation at California Maritime Academy. Clint Fretz - $500 scholarship. Clint is from South Kitsap High School and plans to attend Olympic Community College for one year before transferring to California Maritime. Clint was also awarded a scholarship from Compass Courses Maritime Training for their STCW Basic Safety Training course. All of the students have been invited to a Propeller Club luncheon June 17Th. We want to introduce all of our 2010 YMTA Scholarship recipients. A copy of our Scholarship press release is on our website. Many, many thanks go to this year's judges: John Cleary from NOAA, Romen Cross from Foss Maritime Company, Lyn McClelland from US Coast Guard Auxiliary, and Lurilla Lee from Trident Seafoods. Scholarship Committee members are Justin Poulsen, CC Conklin, Charlie See, Gary Stauffer and Norm Manly. Also, in assisting with Saturday's set-up were Terry Rustan and Cassandra Sandkam. Special thanks to Compass Courses Training for allowing YMTA to use their facility for our scholarship presentation this year.
Carleen M. See Maritime Career Path Committee – Gary Stauffer reports the Maritime Skills Panel of the Seattle-King Co. Workforce Development Council is developing a maritime career pathway for marine engineering. A final version of their work will be available in the coming weeks. Ken Passé Grant Writing Committee – No report Marketing Plan Committee – No report. Educational Partner Committee – Norm met with the Manson High senior class on May 12 to critique this year's Mock Interview program. The students had several great comments that will be added to next year's program. Norm has also met with the two teachers that are involved in the Mock Interview project and they have set up tentative dates. Norm will begin developing next year's program. Norm ManlyManson Community Volunteer 509-293-0225 
YMTA Website Committee - No report. YMTA Community Partner Program Involvement Committee – No report. Gary Stauffer Community Partners Sound Experience - Adventuress programs this summer for youth, family, and adults include: - Family Sails (youth must be at least 8 years of
age): May 29th-31st (Memorial Day Weekend) and August 13th-15th We also have a variety of public and special event sails throughout the sailing season, which can be found online at www.soundexp.org. Sound Experience also participated in a number of Maritime Festival events including: - Table at the Maritime Career Day It was great to be there and we look forward to having even more of a presence next year! Megan Addison NOAA News – NOAA will be attending Jay Inslee's Scoop on Cool Careers on May 22nd. Also on every Thursday until June 3rd, NOAA Fisheries Service will have an insert in the Seattle Times providing information that helps increase ocean and climate literacy. It will probably be in the NW Weekend section. NOAA Science Camp will begin July 12th and another session will begin July 19th - If you know a child entering 7th or 8th grades in the fall there are still openings available. http://www.wsg.washington.edu/education/events/noaa.html As many people may know, a lot of NOAA staff in Seattle are working on the oil spill response, from Seattle. Our scientists from NOAA’s Emergency Response Division are the experts who are modeling where the oil slick is likely to go. Rebecca Reuter Puget Sound Voyaging Society – On behalf of all the youth that are taking part in the Community Boat Project, we thank you for your generous donation of $500 for our vessel. We expect our new boat, Onward, will be as successful as last year’s Journeyman, which now is engaged in at least four on-going school and community programs. It is organizations like yours that make this grassroots effort happen. I invite you to come by and watch the progress at the Boat School. “Boatbuilding” class meets Thursdays 1-5 through the school year. Every Saturday is Community Boatbuilding Day. Join us 10-3 to row or build. Friday look for the “Voyaging” class on-the-water in Lower Hadlock Bay. Wayne Chimenti, Project Manager California Maritime Academy - Graduation - The commencement exercise was held on Saturday, May 1st at the campus in Vallejo. 163 students, including Mike Hess from Ballard plus 12 others from the state of Washington were among the graduates. More than 1,000 guests attended the ceremonies. Training Cruises – The Training Ship Golden Bear departed from the campus on the following day, Sunday, May 2nd, for a day of maneuvering, anchoring and berthing exercises within San Francisco Bay. She tied up in San Francisco for the evening, where a reception was held onboard for nearly 200 grads, parents and friends of the Academy. The ship sailed the following morning and, as we meet this evening, is underway to Pusan, Korea. The first Cruise will end on June 28th, in Honolulu, the cadets will rotate off/on, and the second Cruise will retrace basically the same ports in reverse order. The Golden Bear will call in Seattle from Sunday, August 22nd through Wednesday, August 25th, with berthing at Pier 66. The Admission Department will host open houses for prospective students and parents, as well as high school counselors on Tuesday. A Captain’s Reception will be held on Tuesday evening from 5-7 PM. Contact Ken Passé if you are interested in participating in any of the events. New Students – 22 students from the state of Washington have been “admitted” into the class entering Cal Maritime in September.
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard – The PSNS is working with a number of high and middle schools in the greater Kitsap County area to promote programs for designing and building underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles. We are submitting a grant proposal for funding to expand the number of schools in their ROV program. We also had a major presence at Maritime Career Day with groups from our Dive Shop, Industrial Trade Skills/Apprenticeship Program, Engineering Departments, and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center at Keyport, WA. The divers provided an underwater robotics demo that attracted many interested students. All of our groups were very excited about the Career Day and enjoyed the interaction with the students. Corinne Beach Northwest Seaport - Northwest Seaport has been involved in several preservation/restoration projects, including making progress on the Lightship Rehabilitation work and stopping water infiltration in the decks and house structures of the Historic Tug Arthur Foss. We had an open house on May 1 and 2 as part of the Partners in Preservation grant competition. While we did not tap into the email voting process as well as we had hoped, we think it is great that the Schooner Adventuress is leading the vote as we approach the final hour -- best of luck Adventuress! We thank our supporters for their votes, and asked them to now vote for the Adventuress through today (Wednesday), the last day to vote. Otherwise, we are preparing for the summer season of continued restoration work, keeping ships open to the public, developing programming, and making it all work through developing a good donor base. A priority for us in the next few months is to coordinate closely with John Hastings of The Anchor Program to plan out how to really make this partnership work. John has gone through 2 class cycles with good support from the Historic Ships at Lake Union Park -- but we have much to do in order to really make this a viable program. The partnership between The Anchor Program and the historic ships (Northwest Seaport, Fireboat Duwamish, and Steam Ferry Virginia V) is very beneficial to the ships for a couple of reasons -- TAP participants can help preserve the boats while they learn important maritime skills, and their time doing this can be used as vital in-kind matching labor for various grant applications. This can really work! We are looking forward to a busy summer, great partnerships, and the grand opening of Lake Union Park on September 25. Shannon Fitzgerald Pacific Maritime Institute – Gregg reports that he is in contact now with two west coast maritime schools about taking ownership of PMIs Kongsberg Norcontrol Ownership Radar simulator system, but neither one has decided yet whether to accept the system. If we are unsuccessful, PMI has agreed to take the system back if we provide the labor to move the system. Any volunteers! Gregg Trunnell, Director Pacific Maritime Institute Virginia V Foundation – I am the new president of the Steamship Virginia V Foundation replacing Tobey Wilkins. We are interested in expanding our youth programs and are interested to talking with YMTA leadership about your ideas to reach out to youth to get them involved in the Virginia V activities. Capt Steve Holmes, President Seattle Maritime Academy – Our funding for a new teaching building for the SMA was delayed by the legislature until 2011-12 biennium but the funding level was not reduced. The SMA is planning to increase their marine engineering programs to meet the demands imposed by the new STCW requirements for marine engineers currently being drafted by the US Coast Guard. With the recent arrival of a surplus military marine engineering training barge from Tacoma, we will greatly expand the capability of our engineering and diesel technology curriculum independent of the new building. The barge is in excellent condition and came fully equipped with machinery and auxiliary power plants and with room to house SMA existing machinery currently on the Bartlett. The barge also has a complete galley, 18 berths, and 17 office spaces. We are currently installing a 200-amp service to the barge but it has its own gen sets capable of providing all its own electrical power and fresh water. About half the bottom plates were replace five years ago. Plans include painting the interior and exterior this summer and hauling out the barge in about a year to paint the bottom. Carl Ellis, Assistant Dean Deneva Flath The Center for Wooden Boats – No report. Friends of Maritime – No report. Northwest Maritime Center and Wooden Boat Foundation – No report. Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority (GHHSA) – No report. Port of Seattle - No report. Spectrum Subsea International – No report. Seattle
Public Schools Career and Technical Education Program – No report. Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society – No report Northwest Marine Trades Association – No report. Educational Partners Anchor Program – I joined Gary Stauffer on Maritime Career Day at his YMTA booth to help with talking to students and young adults about maritime careers and how best to get started. I spoke with a number of prospective students about The Anchor Program and also with a number of exhibitors about TAP. I had a great day. John L. Hastings Anacortes High School – No report.
Ballard Maritime Academy - The BMA students have a full program of field trips and events in May and June. The BMA sophomore students participated in Maritime Career Day and another group worked the BMA booth at the Youth and Family Maritime Educational Festival held in the Maritime Event Center on Tug Boat race day. A team of them also competed in the Survival Suit Races unfortunately they did not win. Seniors in the Ocean 101 class will experience the UW Fish Collection on May 12 and 6 students will leave for Washington DC on May 15 to tour the Naval Academy, Baltimore Aquarium, NOAA, and much more. Megan Vogel and Greg Feise, Maritime World History teacher, will lead the group. On May 21st a large group from all three classes will sail the weekend on the Schooner Zodiac in the San Juan Islands. The seniors will be preparing hands on projects to teach for the sophomores. June 4th is the BMA Gala Dinner and Auction where the graduating seniors will be awarded BMA graduation certificates. On June 8th students in Ms Vogel’s Citizen Science program will present their finds at the annual Citizen Science Symposium at the University of Washington.
Hoquiam High School – No report.
Puget Sound Skills Center – May is a busy month for students at the Puget Sound Skills Center. Student teams are completing their scientific investigations of Seahurst Beach in preparation for the Citizen Science Symposium on June 8th at NOAA Sandpoint. Student investigations have centered on seastars, crabs, inter-tidal fish and their distribution along the beach. Scientific posters and PowerPoint presentations are in the works. Next week the students will participate in the annual 2-day cold-water survival class that includes classroom instruction, pool exercises, and a shore survival day at Blake Island. Volunteers from the Seattle Aquarium, Des Moines Marina, NOAA, METRO and other organizations provide equipment and expertise. Through the North Pacific Fishing Vessel Owners Association (NPFVOA), students will earn STCW certification in Personal Survival Techniques. Our thanks go out to YMTA for their on-going support and assistance.
Edmonds Homeschool Resource Center – No report. Danny Rock Jefferson Community School – She swims! The Community Boat - Onward! was launched Thursday. Fifty high school students from three high schools were involved in this accredited class. There were 4,800+ volunteer and student hours over the nine months to complete this project. Onward now joins Journeyman in program through Puget Sound Voyaging Society.
Linda Maguire, Head of School SSS Yankee Clipper – The Yankee Clipper Foundation is still looking for an organization willing to sponsor their ship. If anyone knows of a group, company, or organization please contact me. John Kelly, Skipper Tacoma Public Schools - Thank you for the leadership and organization that YMTA provides. Tacoma is planning to run a Pierce County Skills Center summer school satellite campus at Henry Foss High School for marine technology. The course will be open to high school age kids throughout Pierce County. Students can earn .5 occupational education credit for each session. Session 1 is scheduled 6/28 - 7/14 and session 2 is 7/14 - 7/30. Basically these are 12-day sessions with students being in classroom/lab 7 hours per day. Course offerings will be subject to student enrollment. PCSC requests 25 students/course to offer as summer school. Hope to take advantage of our northwest summers and get kids out on the water. John Page Henry Foss High School – No report. Wayne Miller Ocean Research College Academy – No report. 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 YMTA Board is taking the summer off so our next scheduled YMTA meeting is set for Wednesday, September 9, 2010 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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