Season Opener
Yabba-Dabba Do! The Fall Session is finally here, and it's great to be back working with all these fantastic people. Today, we introduced two new programs: the SYSTEM program for beginners and the NEXT LEVEL program for intermediate sailors. The wind was light, and thunderstorms were likely. We stayed close to home, and when it was time to sail back to port, it only took about 10 minutes. Despite the challenges, everyone was SAFE, had FUN, and was excited to LEARN something new. Check out the pictures and video below!
SYSTEM
The Team Paradise “SYSTEM” (Sailing + Youth + STEM) program has launched! We will measure the wind, test water quality, analyze marine debris, observe marine life, learn geometry and how to sail, and have so much fun! Biscayne Bay is the perfect classroom for our sailors to take their STEM experiments out on the water.
For our first class we learned about and observed the wind, then took what we learned out on the water and took a little time to splash around and get to know each other better!
There are many careers in weather and meteorology. Can you imagine yourself as a hurricane hunter, a meteorologist or a climatologist?
Thank you to the US Sailing Center Miami (home of Team Paradise), and to our coaches and volunteers. And thank you to the City of Miami and our donors for supporting this unique educational experience!
Next week we will finish Module 1 by making home-made anemometers and recording wind readings. After that we will begin Module 2: “Buoyancy.” Stay tuned sailors!
NEXT LEVEL UP
We changed the name of our intermediate call to Nex Level Up. The only difference is that we now accept kids up to 17 years old. Josh Becher will be coaching as usual. Josh, a pre-med student at the University of Miami, races on their sailing team and is L-2 certified. Josh will track their skills according to the US Saiings Intermediate curriculum. We are stoked to have Josh in our coach boat. Only three of the new sailors had to do the Water Comfort test.