{"id":21622,"date":"2014-11-13T04:29:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T04:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=21622"},"modified":"2014-11-13T04:34:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T04:34:58","slug":"students-to-build-sailboat-track-its-voyage-in-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2014\/11\/students-to-build-sailboat-track-its-voyage-in-pacific-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Students to Build Sailboat, Track its Voyage in Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An exercise in boatbuilding is giving a group of Coos Bay, Oregon seventh-graders a lesson in engineering, design, oceanography and more. Sunset Middle School received a 5-foot, unmanned sailboat to assemble, decorate, name and track once it\u2019s launched.<\/p>\n

Sunset fifth grade teacher Nick Krissie originally requested the boat from the Oregon Coast STEM Hub, one of six regional hubs statewide that focuses on the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and math. Seventh grade teacher Andrew Giniger knew it would be a perfect fit for his survey class.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve designed cars, rockets, airplanes,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is our new focus. I know nothing about boats, but I do know physics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teaching isn\u2019t Giniger\u2019s first career. After receiving his engineering degree, he worked in the aerospace industry for more than 20 years. At Sunset, his survey class revolves around engineering \u2014 \u201cthat\u2019s what I know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of lessons in this experience: buoyancy, currents, mapping, etc.<\/p>\n

Giniger\u2019s students will design and construct the boat, while there will be a schoolwide competition to name it. Then, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will take it to the equator and launch it into the Pacific Ocean. A GPS beacon will let Giniger\u2019s students track the boat\u2019s movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will hope that it\u2019ll land in some foreign land,\u201d he said. \u201cIt will probably land in Hawaii or Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n

His class is planning on putting instructions in a watertight container in the boat for whomever finds it to contact them. He also wants to throw in a Sunset-themed T-shirt and anecdotes about the school.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s almost like a time capsule,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the kids walked to the Coos Bay Boat Building Center to chat with the volunteers. They checked out boats in various stages of completion to get ideas for their own.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first Oregon school to participate in this project. Waldport High students just launched their boat, Phyxis, about a week ago. To track its movement, go here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a chance it could go down, if we don\u2019t build it correctly or if there\u2019s really rough seas,\u201d Giniger said.<\/p>\n

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An exercise in boatbuilding is giving a group of Coos Bay, Oregon seventh-graders a lesson in engineering, design, oceanography and more. Sunset Middle School received a 5-foot, unmanned sailboat to assemble, decorate, name and track once it\u2019s launched. Sunset fifth grade teacher Nick Krissie originally requested the boat from the Oregon Coast STEM Hub, one of six regional hubs statewide that focuses on the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and math. Seventh grade teacher Andrew Giniger knew it would be a perfect fit for his survey class. \u201cWe\u2019ve designed cars, rockets, airplanes,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is our new focus. I know nothing about boats, but I do know physics.\u201d Teaching isn\u2019t Giniger\u2019s first career. After receiving his engineering degree, he worked in the aerospace industry for more than 20 years. At Sunset, his survey class revolves around engineering \u2014 \u201cthat\u2019s what I know,\u201d he said. There\u2019s a lot of lessons in this experience: buoyancy, currents, mapping, etc. Giniger\u2019s students will design and construct the boat, while there will be a schoolwide competition to name it. Then, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will take it to the equator and launch it into the Pacific Ocean. A GPS beacon will …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[231,183,230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21626,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21622\/revisions\/21626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}