The fourth grade of Caroline County, more than 400 students in all, are visiting Chestertown this April to learn about the Chesapeake Bay while sailing aboard the schooner SULTANA. These students represent the fourth grade classes from all five Elementary Schools in the county, including Denton Elementary, Federalsburg Elementary, Greensboro Elementary, Preston Elementary, and Ridgely Elementary.
This is the 13th year the Sultana Education Foundation has worked with Caroline County’s fourth grade students, making it one of the Foundation’s longest standing partnerships. Amazingly, some of the first group of Caroline students who sailed on SULTANA back in 2002 will begin graduating from college this spring. “It has been great to see these students as they become adults,” said Sultana Education Foundation Vice President Chris Cerino. “The Sultana experience sticks with them and it is clear that we have influenced a generation of kids to be stewards of the environment and students of history.”
In addition to their under-sail program on the schooner SULTANA, and walking tours of Chestertown’s Historic District, the Caroline County students will participate in a follow-up experience this May planting trees at Tuckahoe and Martinak State Parks. Over the past ten years this component of Caroline County’s Sultana program has led to thousands of new trees. Funded in part by the Chesapeake Bay Trust, Caroline County’s Sultana programs are helping to ensure that knowledge and care of the Chesapeake Watershed are an enduring part of the curriculum for the entire county.
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