The Tall Ship Semester for Girls breaks down traditional barriers and puts girls at the helm of a tall ship at sea. The program offers girls who might otherwise never have such an opportunity a chance to test themselves, to accomplish real feats, and in the process, to discover themselves. The power of such a program cannot be underestimated.

This program provides young women with an environment in which they can comfortably take risks. But because the professional crew is coed, the participants develop positive, healthy relationships with both men and women. As the program integrates academics with experience, the girls can see real value in their learning--meteorology and the mathematics of navigation, for example, are immediately useful at sea.

The four-month program is long enough to allow students to effect real personal change. Not only are they at sea for two full months, but also they return to share their experiences with their communities, fostering and strengthening the connections between their lives at sea and those they return to ashore.

Girls who might otherwise be hanging in the mall now find themselves hanging in the rigging, feeling, perhaps for the first time, what it means to push themselves and succeed. These young women weather storms, plot new courses, and find worlds beyond their current horizons. Click here for more detailed information about this program. And join us in changing lives.