Sea - Legs Maratime Sailing Youth Program Articles / Oh My God That's Cool Posted by rampy on Jul 07, 2005 - 11:56 AM Let me take a second from the starwars links and humor to post a PSA =) A friend of mine is running a pretty cool program that takes underprivledged / underserved / disadvantaged youth and teaches them about sailing and of course takes them sailing called Sea-Legs [1]. The Sea-Legs Maratime Youth Program [2] is part of the Virtual Voyages [3] youth / commmunity program. The aspects of this initiative are outlined as follows: * Organize a sequential progression of maritime skills to challenge young sailors from introductory to advanced levels of participation. * Develop materials to present these skills, give students activities that will lead to mastery, and determine that a given student has mastered a given skill. * Create a ranking system, based on these skills, by which a young sailor can progress and gain status as mariner. * Create an interactive web site to serve as a repository for these skills, activities and rankings that will be accessible and attractive to the youth-sailors, their parents or guardians, and the schools or other programs that wish to take part. Check out Sea-Legs [4] This article is from Random Drivel   http://www.randomdrivel.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.randomdrivel.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4491 Links in this article   [1] http://www.sea-legs.org   [2] http://www.sea-legs.org   [3] http://www.virtualvoyages.net   [4] http://www.sea-legs.org