The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School

The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School gives students the chance to build boats, sail boats, and even scuba dive as part of an imaginative curriculum designed to prepare them for careers on the water. The goal is to expose them to disciplines ranging from aquaculture (farming fish) to marine technology (being an engineer on a boat) whether they decide to attend college or to go to work as soon as they graduate from high school.

The day we visited, a handful of students had just returned from an early morning motor boat trip to the Bronx, where they had planted oysters in the bay as part of a school project to clean the city's waterways. They learned that a single oyster can clean many gallons of water.

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