*ABRIDGED* Champlain Longboats: Building Boats, Rowing Boats, Changing Lives

The Champlain Longboats Program is an innovative boat-building and rowing program that partners the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum (LCMM) with regional schools and community organizations. The primary goal is to develop positive, healthy behavior in middle and high school students at a critical time in their lives by exposing them to the innate team / self esteem-building nature of boat building and rowing. Initiated by LCMM in 1999, Champlain Longboats has two distinct but interconnected pieces: the boat-building program, an intense five-month project with eight students participating five days a week, and the rowing program which uses the boats built by the students for in-school education, after school extra-curricular programs, and community rowing. Over 500 youths and 200 adults participate annually

Check out the full version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD7L1Pq4was

Abridged and edited by Tom Larsen
Original created by Wayward Daughter Productions

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• lake champlain
• rowing
• longboats
• lcmm
• students
• boatbuilding