71 Cape Cod Students Will Participate In Semester At Sea

BUZZARDS BAY – The Massachusetts Maritime Academy sea term will set sail this upcoming January.

Six hundred cadets will depart Taylors Point on the TS Kennedy on January 11^th. The Cadets include 71 students from Cape Cod

21 cadets from Sandwich

14 cadets from Falmouth

6 cadets from Mashpee

5 cadets from Bourne

4 cadets from Barnstable

4 cadets from Martha’s Vineyard

4 cadets from Nantucket

3 cadets from Orleans

2 cadets from Brewster

2 cadets from Yarmouth

1 cadet from Dennis

1 Cadet from Eastham

The ship will make stops in Balboa, Panama, Golfito, Costa Rica, Willemstad, Curacao, Florida.

MMA has also invited participate in the “Follow the Voyage-Share the Experience” which allows the public to follow the cadets throughout their trip.

“It’s a very exciting program, it’s been around for about twenty four years. But it has been expanded so that student’s from K-12 can follow”, Nancy Franks “Follow The Voyage” Coordinator for MMA.

Last year over 12,000 students from ages K-12 participated in the program.

“This year we plan on topping that number significantly, but we would especially like to have more followers from Cape Cod”, said Franks.