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Re-created 19th-century schooner teaches science

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Students from Michigan, Connecticut and Illinois did cutting edge science aboard a re-creation of a 19th-century three-masted Great Lakes schooner. The students spent a week earlier this month aboard the Sailing Vessel Denis Sullivan for an adventure.

The excursion is one of 70 "hands-on career and adventure explorations" for students in grades six through 11 offered through Michigan Technological University's Summer Youth Programs.

Other offerings include a backpacking trip to Isle Royale to study moose and wolf populations, a blacksmithing course and a course on three-dimensional computer modeling, university spokeswoman Jennifer Donovan said in a statement.  more...


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