Thank you to US Sailing for making us one of this year’s Reach Youth Engagement Grantees!
The Reach Program utilizes sailing as an educational platform, challenging youth to embrace education, establish a love of learning and explore productive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) based careers. Combining educators, sailing instructors, engineers, scientists with today’s youth to provide them with a one of a kind authentic learning experience, giving students the opportunity to apply classroom learning in a cooperative work environment.
OYSF used the grant to train coaches, buy materials and provide scholarships to students in our 2020 boat building and sailing summer camps in collaboration with Wind & Oar Boat School and Camp ELSO. Follow the link to find out more about Reach and see some pics of our sailors experimenting with buoyancy, testing turbidity (that’s water clarity!) with a Secchi disc and learning about land vs. sea breezes.
