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Support Carolina Coastal Classrooms

How can you help Carolina Coastal Classrooms stay underway? Carolina Coastal Classrooms, Inc. is a non-profit foundation whose mission is to help students understand and appreciate our coastal waters and maritime heritage through hands-on shipboard educational experiences. Our programs will offer experiences onboard our 1915 skipjack and eventually onboard a reproduction of the 19th century North Carolina coastal fishing and trading schooner ADA MAE & CAROLINA. Our educational vessels ADA MAE and CAROLINA will operate daily as sailing educational classrooms. Students and their classroom teachers will learn about coastal ecology, marine biology, science, math and social studies as they explore and discover the treasures of our state's natural resources. We need your financial support in helping this new and exciting environmental education program for coastal North Carolina.

Your charitable gift will help make these kinds of hands-on educational experiences a reality for today's students and teachers. Carolina Coastal Classrooms' programs are designed to excite and ignite student's interests in learning through practical applications of shipboard skills. Carolina Coastal Classrooms, Inc. will augment and partner with the traditional school based classrooms to make science and math applicable, relevant and FUN.

Please help by making your gift of financial support to Carolina Coastal Classrooms, Inc. Pledges and gifts of support or donations of goods and services may be made at any level and may be made in various forms. A variety of gift options designed to meet your philanthropic goals are available. Making a planned gift enables you to obtain financial benefits such as charitable income tax deductions in addition to the satisfaction of making a valuable contribution. Charitable gift options include endowments, memorial funds, bequests, real estate, securities and cash gifts.

Carolina Coastal Classroom' Friends clubs provide generous support at these levels:

Chiefs $250 - $499

Ensigns $500 - $999

Lieutenants $1,000 - $2,499

Commanders $2,500 - $4,999

Captains $5,000 - $9,999

Admirals $10,000 - $24,999

Fleet Admirals $25,000 - UP

Financial support at the Captains level and above is recognized by having a brass plaque placed on the skipjack ADA MAE or the schooner CAROLINA in honor of your support or as a memorial to a loved one.

Information on other charitable gift options may be obtained by contacting
Carolina Coastal Classrooms, Inc. at (252) 638-7862.

Carolina Coastal Classrooms, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation. Our non-profit status Federal Identification Number is 56-2278722.

We appreciate your gift of support for this new and exciting educational initiative. Please share this information with others who you think may be interested. Your contributions will have a direct effect on today's students and tomorrow's young leaders and decision-makers. Thank you for helping us make our world better for all to enjoy.

 

About our Program

Carolina Coastal Classrooms, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation whose mission is to provide environmental education programs promoting understanding and appreciation of our coastal waters and maritime heritage through hands-on shipboard educational experiences. The centerpiece of this program will be the environmental education curricula taught onboard the skipjack ADA MAE and eventually upon the schooner CAROLINA.

The skipjack ADA MAE was built in 1915 in Rose Bay and is the only surviving working sail vessel built in North Carolina. This educational vessel is homeported in New Bern, North Carolina and offers daily and extended shipboard environmental education programs throughout the year. The schooner CAROLINA will be built as a reproduction of a classic 19th century coastal fishing and trading schooner and will also be stationed in New Bern.

Carolina Coastal Classrooms Programs provides educational opportunities for students of diverse racial, ethnic, socio-economic and educational backgrounds. Students participating in these programs will learn much about themselves, their abilities, the marine environment and the maritime heritage of much of the coastal United States through hands-on experiential education. Trained educators serve as the captains and crew and conduct the onboard "classrooms." Shipboard experiences will involve team-building and practical applications of shipboard skills using math, science, ecology, social studies, reading, writing, computer science and critical thinking. Shipboard experiences and skills are linked to learning objectives and goals from the North Carolina Department of Education Standard Courses of Study for math and science. Shipboard curricula include water quality analysis, marine life studies, hydrodynamics and aerodynamics, sail theory, navigation and studies in environmental stewardship.

Students are given hands-on educational opportutities by steering the ship, setting and striking the sails, dredging and trawling for oysters, fish, crabs, shrimp and plankton used for onboard study. They also make weather observations, take water qualtiy measurements and discussi environmental concerns affecting marine life in surrounding waters. Students will be able to maintain contact throughout the school year with the educational vessels ADA MAE and CAROLINA as they sail coastal North Carolina's waterways. Our program is structued so that 2000 to 3000 students may be served annually by our onboard educational programs.

 


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