Western New York Maritime Charter School

Rest in peace ladies, thank you for your sacrifice.

Internet and phone outage - Due to the Spectrum outage in the city, our phones are currently down. If you have an urgent need to contact us, please email us through the website at https://www.wnymcs.com/apps/contact/ http://edl.io/n1322938

Maritime Football gear ordering is open! Would you like to support the football team and wear cool football gear around town? Now is your chance! Follow this link to get your order in before the online store closes on 11/9/2020. All orders should arrive in early December. https://stores.inksoft.com/WS42859 http://edl.io/n1321759

We are proud to share that one of our own Junior year Cadets, Addison Copeland, has been offered a full scholarship to Rutgers University! Addison has made a verbal commitment to the Big 10 school and plans to pursue a career in Architecture. He has a long list of accomplishments in his high school sports career. He ranked 8th overall, in the 100 meter dash, in the State Track and Field Competition. He ranks as the #1 wide receiver and 5th overall, in WNY high school football. He finds time to work after school and still maintains his Honor Roll status here at Maritime. We are so excited to watch you journey through this very exciting time in your life and know you will continue to do great things! Congratulations Addison!

8th grade students in home and careers class are making pillows for the homeless!

Attention Alumni - if you meet the below criteria, reach out to Master Chief Pugh for information on a scholarship opportunity. To qualify for one of the available $1,000 scholarships, the applicant must: Be a fulltime student from one of the Northern states*, attending a two or fouryear college or university.... Be a strong academic performer and have at least a 3.0 grade point average on a 4.0 scale. Have a degree emphasis in a recreational boating safety related field (e.g. law enforcement or criminal justice, natural resources/environmental science, education, public relations/marketing or journalism)

Congratulations LT.

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the attack on the USS COLE. This is a very interesting tribute to the 17 sailors they were killed in the attack.

Our Maritime Careers Class was able to maintain the partnership with the Buffalo Yacht Club and go sailing on 22' sailboats for the first few weeks of the school year. Unfortunately, it's gotten too cold to continue for now, but will be back in the spring. Thanks to Leah and Joe for their patience, teaching, and openness to keep things going with all the changes due to COVID-19.

Happy World Teachers' Day to all of our teachers and those that have chosen this career path wherever they teach.

We're very glad to be able to continue our relationship with the Buffalo Maritme Center and the Hand to Hand Program. Social distancing and other COVID-19 factors have changed the layout of their classroom, but we're still building boats!!

Yesterday afternoon we held the ribbon cutting ceremony for our new high school. Pictured are Ms. Cathy Oldenburg (Commandant), Mr. Tim O'brien (President of the school's board), and Kevin Burke (Retired Army CSM and founding member of the school's board). Looking forward to many years in our new neighborhood.

Just a quick reminder that cadets at the high school need to be in their Navy JROTC uniform either tomorrow (Thursday) or Friday for school pictures. No PT Uniform until next week.