DMS Miniboat Update

Welcome to our new crew members, and their families. The newest 5th graders have met three times and are excited to be learning all about the ocean. They've taken one pretest, and read through the first topic: One Amazing Ocean. They've also building boats for the Recycling Regatta. Check out some pictures below.

The Recycle Regatta is a free, fun, hands-on competition for K-12 students to participate in from anywhere! Participants build a model sailboat from recycled and repurposed materials and race to victory while discovering engineering, mathematics, sailing, buoyancy, and stewardship.

All of our 30 crew members are working hard in the classrooms, they are dedicating their time to academics. Many are members of our school community music/sports/leadership groups and there are 23 of them who have made the third term honor or high honor roll lists. Congratulations to all, our school community benefits from all of your hard work and dedication.

Thanks to our crew member John D, who spent some time on Friday afternoon making connections and sending out emails. He successfully measured and communicated ANITA's needs to Cassie, and then made contact with Woods Hole to ask about the possibility of a future launch.

Our crew members will all contribute to the job of getting ANITA ready for her third launch. 5th graders will work on some items for the cargo hold. The 8th graders will be heading to Falmouth on Friday May 15 in order to drop her off to the crew of the RV Neil Armstrong for deployment.

Cassie is sending along the necessary sealants and plans to get her water safe. We'll all be working on her each day to check off the tasks.

We're working on a quick idea to engage some of our elementary students from Dudley Elementary and Mason Road to be able to include their schools in our cargo.

We'd like to seal our cargo items if possible to reduce the chances of the items getting wet with ocean water. If you have one we could borrow, or would volunteer to seal the items in bags for us we would greatly appreciate it. Please reach out to Ms Lynch (SLynch@dcrsd.org) or Mrs Kobel (DKobel@dcrsd.org) if you can help us out.

STRATEGY: a. a careful plan or method for achieving a particular goal usually over a long period of time

b. the art of devising or employing plans or methods towards a goal

TIMELINESS: the quality or state of being timely