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Be a part of the Follow The Voyage - Share The Experience Gallery!

We would love to feature photographs of your class learning and discovering as they participate in Follow The Voyage - Share The Experience. The photos may feature students completing an activity that you found in the FTV-STX Curriculum or show students working together on a project that was inspired by a blog post.

Has a student in your class completed an outstanding piece of work in mathematics, science, language arts, social studies, or fine arts that was inspired by FTV-STX? Send us a photograph! Also, attach a copy of the work as a word document.

We also welcome photographs of your students celebrating the culture of Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Curacao, Bermuda, Guatemala, or Thailand.

Have you given your classroom a nautical look? Share your photos!

We can't guarantee that will can post every photo, but we'll sure try!

Email images to FTV@maritime.edu.

Ashland, Massachusetts 1st Graders Join Cadets In Costa Rica

First grade students at Henry E Warren School in Ashland, Massachusetts celebrated the TS Kennedy arrival in Costa Rica by speaking Spanish, making the flag of Costa Rica, eating fruit grown there, learning about the rain forest, and erupting a volcano.

Illustrations Of Big Buc's Nautical Idioms

As fourth grade students from Mantunuck Elementary School in Wakefiled, Rhode Island are following cadets aboard the TS Kennedy, they are also learning some nautical idioms from their favorite large pirate, Big Buc. Here are their illustrations of "all hands" and "anchors weigh".

Illustrations Of Big Buc's Nautical Idioms (Part II)

Saluting Creativity

Captain Campbell and the cadets are sending salutes to this talented first grade student from the Henry E. Warren School in Ashland, Massachusetts. They were thrilled to receive a photograph of her colorful model of their favorite ship.

Brightening The Day For Cadets

Second grade students from St. Mary's School in Winchester, Massachusetts brightened the day of cadets aboard the TS Kennedy by sharing these colorful drawings of the ship.

Brightening The Day For Cadets (Part II)

Second grade students from St. Mary's School in Winchester, Massachusetts brightened the day of cadets aboard the TS Kennedy by sharing these colorful drawings of the ship.

Investigates Butter In Belchertown

A second grade mathematician at Swift River Elementary School in Belchertown, Massachusetts was amazed to learn that 1,260 pounds of butter were loaded onto the TS Kennedy for Sea Term 2020. He knew that the weight of four of the sticks of butter that he has seen at home are equal to one pound. He set out to discover how many sticks of butter would be equal to 1,260 pounds. This photo shows how he used repeated addition to get his answer of 5,040 sticks.

Tributes To The TS Kennedy

Three talented fourth grade artists from Thorndyke Road Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts used a variety of materials to create these unique tributes to the TS Kennedy.

Miles away at Mantunuck Elementary School in Wakefield, Rhode Island, a talented fourth grade student was using markers to create this picture of our ship.

Three students hold drawings and paintings of the ship.

Calculating Lifeboat Capacity

Fourth grade students at Matunuck Elementary School in Wakefield, Rhode Island applied a wide range of computation and problem solving skills as they completed the TS Kennedy Lifeboat Mathematics activity found in the Mathematics Curriculum.

Calculating Lifeboat Capacity (Part II)

Nautical Names In Rhode Island

Kindergarten students at Wakefield Elementary School in Wakefield, Rhode Island were inspired by Big Buc’s blog explaining maritime call signs. Big Buc shared two photos of the nautical signal flags K-V-M-U that fly aboard the TS Kennedy when in port. The kindergarten students went right to work spelling out their names using the colorful flags.

Nautical Names In Rhode Island (Part II)

Here are more colorful signal flag names created by the talented kindergarten students at Wakefield Elementary School in Wakefield, Rhode Island.

Drawing The TS Kennedy

Kindergarten students at Franklin Avenue Elementary School in Westfield, Massachusetts spent their recess thinking about their favorite ship. Two students drew the TS Kennedy using colored pencils. They are especially excited to know that their teacher’s son, 1/C Jacob Neilson, and another one of their favorite cadets, 1/C Chloe Plank, are aboard the TS Kennedy.

A Colorful TS Kennedy

A talented first grader at the Henry Warren Elementary School in Ashland, Massachusetts used LEGOs to make this amazing model of the TS Kennedy. The cadets wish that the actual ship was as colorful as his model.

Miles away in Westfield, Massachusetts, two kindergarten students at Franklin Avenue Elementary School had the same great idea. During recess they worked together to use Legos to create this colorful model of the TS Kennedy.

Solving Cadet Rack Problems

At Swift River Elementary School in Belchertown, Massachusetts, second grade students worked hard to solve our Cadet Rack Challenge. Teacher Teresa Adams said, “So we measured out our rack! Gia is the tallest person in our class....she fits!! Alena and Evan are the smallest today - they fit together! We still think it looks pretty skinny for big kids! Bryson did some fast addition and came up with the perimeter of the rack in inches.”

Thanks for making the TS Kennedy part of your mathematics class. The cadets wish you all a good night’s sleep from your large, comfortable beds.

Solving Cadet Rack Problems

Students in Mrs. Megget's third grade class at Harbor View Elementary School in Charleston South Carolina applied their addition skills as they found the perimeter of the rack.

Students in Mrs. Megget's third grade class at Harbor View Elementary School in Charleston South Carolina taped off the dimensions of a cadet's rack on their colorful classroom rug. They also applied their addition skills as they found the perimeter of the rack.

Cadets work out calulations in notebook.

Solving Cadet Rack Problems

Students in Mrs. Megget's third grade class at Harbor View Elementary School in Charleston South Carolina taped off the dimensions of a cadet's rack on their colorful classroom rug.

Hello, Followers!

Climb aboard the TS Kennedy for Sea Term 2021! On behalf of the cadets and crew, I would like to welcome the many elementary school, middle school, and high school students participating in the Follow The Voyage Program. Throughout Sea Term 2021, be sure to log onto my Captain’s Log. I am looking forward to providing you with daily updates and answering as many of your questions as possible.

I am a 1987 graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. In December 2013, I was hired as Second Mate of the TS Kennedy. A year later, I became the Acting Chief Mate. At a Change Of Command Ceremony in August 2016, I became the Master of the TS Kennedy . My position merges my Chief Mate responsibilities with that of captaining the ship. As Chief Mate, I am in charge of implementing safety management for all personnel. I am also responsible for the planned maintenance of the ship’s interior and exterior spaces, including the machinery. It is a demanding job, but I couldn’t be happier.

When I am not on the TS Kennedy, I treasure my time at home with my wife and children in Narragansett, Rhode Island.

I welcome your comments and questions throughout our voyage. Please send them to me via ftv@maritime.edu.

Thanks again for being a part of Sea Term 2021!

Sincerely,
Captain Michael J. Campbell
Master, TS Kennedy

Nautical Terms

Aft - The back of a ship. If something is located aft, it is at the back of the ship. The aft is also known as the stern.

All Hands - Entire ship’s company, both officers and enlisted personnel.

Aweigh - The position of anchor as it is raised clear of the bottom.

Bow - The front of the ship is called the bow. Knowing the location of the bow is important for defining two of the other most common sailing terms; port (left of the bow) and starboard (right of the bow).

Bridge - A structure above the weather deck, extending the full width of the vessel, which houses a command center, itself called by association, the bridge.

Deck Hand, “Decky” - A person whose job involves aiding the deck supervisor in (un) mooring, anchoring, maintenance, and general evolutions on deck.

Forward - The front of a ship. If something is located forward, it is at the front of the ship. This is also known as the bow.

Knot - A unit of speed: 1 nautical mile (1.8520 km; 1.1508 mi) per hour. Originally speed was measured by paying out a line from the stern of a moving boat. The line had a knot every 47 feet 3 inches (14.40 m) and the number of knots passed out in 30 seconds gave the speed through the water in nautical miles per hour.

Port - Port is always the left-hand side of the boat when you are facing the bow. Because “right” and “left” can become confusing terms when used in the open waters, port is used to define the left-hand side of the ship as it relates to the bow, or front.

Rack - The term to describe a bed aboard a ship.

Starboard - Starboard is always the right-hand side of the boat when you are facing the bow. Because “right” and “left” can become confusing sailing terms when used out in the open waters, starboard is used to define the right-hand side of the boat as it relates to the bow, or front.

Has a student in your class completed an outstanding piece of work in mathematics, science, language arts, social studies, or fine arts that was inspired by FTV-STX? Send us a photograph! Also, attach a copy of the work as a word document.

We also welcome photographs of your students celebrating the culture of Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Curacao, Bermuda, Guatemala, or Thailand. Have you given your classroom a nautical look? Share your photos!

We can't guarantee that will can post every photo, but we'll sure try!

Email images to FTV@maritime.edu.

Ashland, Massachusetts 1st Graders Join Cadets In Costa Rica

Illustrations Of Big Buc's Nautical Idioms

Illustrations Of Big Buc's Nautical Idioms (Part II)

Saluting Creativity

Brightening The Day For Cadets

Brightening The Day For Cadets (Part II)

Investigates Butter In Belchertown

Tributes To The TS Kennedy

Calculating Lifeboat Capacity

Calculating Lifeboat Capacity (Part II)

Nautical Names In Rhode Island

Nautical Names In Rhode Island (Part II)

Drawing The TS Kennedy

A Colorful TS Kennedy

Solving Cadet Rack Problems

Solving Cadet Rack Problems

Solving Cadet Rack Problems

We also welcome photographs of your students celebrating the culture of Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Curacao, Bermuda, Guatemala, or Thailand.

Have you given your classroom a nautical look? Share your photos!