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1 person is interested
Hand-to-hand Traditional Skills Mentoring
ORGANIZATION: Buffalo Maritime Center
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1 person is interested
Student mentors are needed for the Hand-to-hand Program at Buffalo Maritime Center.
The Hand-to-hand Program is a non-traditional enrichment program using boatbuilding as the focus for applied STEM curriculum with a hands-on approach to solving real-world problems in a "hands on" boatshop/classroom facility where everything is presented in the guise of boatbuilding and on the water activities.
The program provides a practical knowledge of tools and craftsmanship, the achievement of important life skills, enhanced by a sense of self-sufficiency, self-esteem and a "can do" attitude. Beginning with a stack of boards, materials, and provided tools, students will divide into crews of 3 students and build 12' Black Rock Skiffs with assistance from qualified mentors under instruction from a certified technology teacher and BMC's master boatbuilder. Students will learn shop safety, hand tool use, the use of hand held power tools and stationery machinery, materials handling, sourcing and purchasing.
Instruction will take place in the shop and on the waterfront. Upon completion students will launch their boats and participate in 24 hours of on the water programming including boating safety, navigation, maritime technology, and coastal habitat ecology. While work hours, scheduling, class size and other details can be tailored to meet individual organizational needs to some extent, the program is for students in grades 10 through 12, in a 12 to 15 student class setting, scheduled for two hours a day, three days a week.
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About Buffalo Maritime Center
Location:
90 ARTHUR ST, BUFFALO, NY 14207, US
Mission Statement
It is the Buffalo Maritime Center’s mission to study and celebrate the rich maritime heritage of the Niagara Frontier, to preserve the use of traditional hands-on skills, methods and values inherent in the maritime tradition, and to encourage and promote public access to the area’s historic waterfront and waterways.
Description
The Buffalo Maritime Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational institution. The Maritime Center functions as an intergenerational community center where volunteers of all ages are trained to mentor young people in practical life skills during the regular work week, after school and on weekends.
Using boats and boatbuilding as the lure the Center is a safe place for kids and adults where the traditional values of self-discipline, self-sufficiency and a craftsman-like attitude are intrinsic to the work of building a wooden boat.
BMC staff and volunteers are organized to offer hands on traditional skills classes and workshops that focus on wooden boats and boatbuilding for academic credit, for technical arts education in grades 5 through adult education levels, and to the general public for quality of life improvement in the community. A core belief at BMC is that there is dignity and joy to be found in performing good meaningful work with our hands.
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90 Arthur StBuffalo, NY 14207
DATE POSTED
October 27, 2014
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