Summer Center

In July and August of each year Sultana Projects provides five-day, live-aboard educational trips on board the schooner Sultana as part of the Maryland State Department of Education's Gifted and Talented Summer Centers Program.  Known as the, "Sultana Center for Field Studies in Colonial and Environmental History," these programs provide are a opportunity for students to immerse themselves in colonial and maritime history while exploring the waters of the Chesapeake Bay aboard the 1768 reproduction schooner Sultana. Program coursework focuses on Maryland's Colonial period, with a particular emphasis on the decade preceding the American Revolution. During the program students are trained in the techniques of 18th century sailing and navigation, examine time period surgical tools and armaments, read and decipher excerpts from the original logs of Sultana's commanding officers and study nautical charts of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries. Students also go ashore to explore creeks and marshes, conduct tests to monitor water quality and analyze eyewitness accounts of 18th century fisheries. Students are expected to complete a weeklong research project using primary and secondary sources to conduct a historic investigation of the life of one of Sultana's original crewmembers.

This program is open to rising 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students in the state of Maryland.

For additional information about this program please contact the Sultana office or visit the Maryland State Department of Education Gifted and Talented Programs.