b"Sailing & Science Camp Youth SailingAdult SailingThe second year of PBCBs weeklong,This summers Youth Program wasPBCB offers a variety of sailing full-day Sailing & Science Summerthe largest yet, with six programs thatopportunities for adults, fromCamp paired a hands-on scienceserved 573 children.beginner to experienced. curriculum blended with the adventures of learning to sail forYoung sailors got the hang ofAdult Lessons continue to be very children ages 6 to 14. Under theskippering in Flying Scots, playedpopular, with a record number of guidance and care of experiencedCapture the Flag in Sunfish, andsailors graduating and passing skills staff, local experts, and scientists,learned to sail a race course in 420s.checks this season. Participants campers explored the natural wondersOur Opti class was extremely popular,created a supportive atmosphere of our 3.75 acre shoreline campus andand before long, all of the youngand really cheered each other on Pleasant Bay!skippers were confidently rigging andespecially when making that perfect sailing independently.mooring approach! PBCB staff collaborated with experts from the Center of Coastal Studies,Ben absolutely lovedNew this year, our private sailing MIT Engineering Department, and thehis two weeks at PBCB!excursion, Simply Sail was a big hit. It National Weather Service to offer aIm so glad you aregave people an opportunity to sail on curriculum focused on marine biology,providing children with such a greatthe Flying Scots, regardless of their oceanography, marine biology, andopportunity to get out on Pleasantexperience or interest in learning to other STEM-related topics. CampersBay to have fun and learn. sail themselves. Private instruction was explored and observed marine wildlife,offered for those who wanted lessons learned about how human activities onThe sailing programs offer such aor to brush up their skills. Nearly every land impact the ocean environment,unique opportunity for kids to beslot offered was booked by families, and discovered how fun it is to learnoutdoors and enjoy all that PBCBcouples, or small groups of friends about science. They collected critters,has to offer. Our children laughed,who jumped at the opportunity to get identified invasive invertebrates,grew in confidence, and wereout on the Bay!cared for baby clams and oysters inempowered by what they were able a shellfish upweller system, practicedto accomplish on the water. Programs were topped off with kayaking and rowing, learned aboutevening races and cookouts that topics like global climate change andcreated a wonderful opportunity to get biodiversity, used a beach seine, andto know one another.observed marine habitats and wildlife.And if thats not all, they sailed to theI was delighted to discover islands on Pleasant Bay, learning aboutPBCB this summer and the many STEM principles that takegrateful to learn a new place on a sailboat. skill in the fresh air.My instructor was friendly, welcoming, and quite knowledgeable. Thank you PBCB.After a summer of one-on-one, experiential learning, focused on the marine environment, my sons love for science and experimenting hasIts never too late to learn. been reawakened. His confidence is soaring from sailing excursionsIf youve been meaning to with his buddies on a Sunfish, and his curiosity about ecology was rechargedgive sailing a try or shake while kayaking through the marshy inlets.When he goes boating on the weekendoff the dust, this is your sign to get with his grandfather he proudly describes the anatomy of the boat's rigging andinvolved next season!eagerly gives direction. Every week he would tell us about his new friends, so eager to reconnect after months spent with only adults during the pandemic."