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Team is the Dream: Nantucket Miniboat Adventures Podcast

In this episode, Cassie talks with Lisa Swanson from Morristown Beard School in New Jersey. Lisa is currently on sabbatical and using her time to give back to her students and to Educational Passages, starting with an adventure to Nantucket, Massachusetts in February. The reason for the trip is explained, as well as other plans […]


Recycle Regatta 2024 is on now through April 30

The 5th Annual Recycle Regatta is now open through April 30, 2024! Apply the engineering method and help your students become environmental stewards as you repurpose recyclables into seaworthy vessels! Master buoyancy, engineering, and physics obstacles to race your boat creations to victory. The Recycle Regatta is a free, fun, hands-on competition for K-12 students to participate […]


Miniboat Data from Lancer

During the 2022-2023 school year, the National Marine Aquarium/Ocean Conservation Trust and Educational Passages collaborated around the Miniboat Lancer. Originally from a school in Connecticut, USA, the Lancer sailed with the wind and currents to Ireland, and then Plymouth, UK in 2017. It was upgraded with sensors during Project OCN and STEMFEST, and was launched […]


The Lancer Story: A Special 30-minute Webinar December 19

This 30-minute webinar event will share the inspirational story of the miniboat Lancer, which completed a circumnavigation of the Atlantic earlier this year. This science project, started by a student named Kaitlyn in 2016, has since connected individuals across five countries. See the story unfold – from a kit in 2016 – then multiple ocean […]


Needle in the Haystack: Miniboat Neptune Arrives in Hawaii

PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: Cassie Stymiest, Educational Passages, 207-619-1259, cassie@educationalpassages.org VANCOUVER, WA. Another 5.5 foot long uncrewed student sailboat (miniboat) was recovered on March 23, 2022 after 248 days and 5,347 km of traveling across the Pacific. Its recovery was a surprise to the students involved, not in where it was found, but that it had been […]


Rye, NH Classroom Connects with Norway School in Unique Way

PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: Cassie Stymiest, Educational Passages, 207-619-1259, cassie@educationalpassages.org RYE, NH. A 5.5 foot long uncrewed sailboat (miniboat) built in 2020 by students at Rye Junior High in New Hampshire, was recovered in Smøla, near Dyrnes, Norway on February 1, 2022. After 462 days and 13,412 km of traveling across the Atlantic Ocean, the deck […]


Virtual Open House 2020

Miniboat Open House 2020 Join us for a virtual Miniboat Open House to learn more about Educational Passages, hear some of the recent stories of miniboat travels around the world, and talk with us about how you can integrate the program in or out of the classroom this fall. If you are not available at […]


Student-built unmanned miniature research vessel from Massachusetts lands in Australia

PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: Cassie Stymiest, Educational Passages, 207-619-1259, cassie@educationalpassages.org KINGSTON, MA. A 5.5 foot long unmanned sailboat (miniboat) built eighteen months ago by students at Sacred Heart School in Massachusetts, has landed at Dalyellup Beach, near Bunbury, Western Australia.  Educational Passages, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to connect students around the world to the […]


Miniboat Hero Highlight: Holly Blair, Educator

Written by Erin PelletierHolly Blair’s interest in the Educational Passage’s miniboat program started at the 2015 National Marine Educators Association (NMEA) Annual Conference. Her interest became a reality when a week later she found a recovered miniboat (The Upper) at her local Goodwill store and purchased it for $5 US! Over the next summer she […]


Passages: EP News December 2017

Letter from the Director: Greetings! We have been busy here at Educational Passages (EP) and have a lot of news to share with everyone. Over the past year we have deployed over two dozen miniboats all around the world with many more ready to set sail. As the new Executive Director, I am excited to […]