Dear Science Colleagues,
As the school year begins again, consider offering r/c landsailing as a project choice for your students. The organization that I founded, Sailing Through School, is a 501(c)(3) now and ready to serve you and your students. We have developed curricula related r/c landsailing and have greatly improved the construction manual. There is a depth of study available here that is rare to find among the project choices that we normally offer students. Though it is probably too involved for many of our younger students to do on their own, there are many who could build one easily and research the physics involved.
On June 7th 2005, we had a fantastic opportunity at Ballard High - the first annual “Speedygo Regatta”. Competitors came from AS #1, Whitman, Ballard, Hale, and Roosevelt as well as numerous “rock star” wet sailors from the Seattle area. One of our teachers at Whitman made a great video for us (see http://www.sailingthroughschool.org/photo_gallery.htm). The five schools listed above will be participating in this years program — building three landsailers per school and meeting monthly for special events.
See our website at www.sailingthroughschool.org and
contact me if you are interested.
Good luck for the start of another great year!
Todd Staheli