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Rocking the Boat uses traditional wooden boatbuilding and on-water education to allow high school age youth to develop into empowered and responsible adults. Through these mediums, Rocking the Boat empowers South Bronx students to deal with everyday realities that are often not addressed at home or in school. Four levels of community and youth development programs operate during the fall and spring academic semesters and over the summer. Together, the programs directly serve over 2,000 students and community members drawn from a range of New York City public high schools and neighborhoods, the majority being in the South Bronx. Rocking the Boat teaches, challenges, nurtures, and motivates, providing the tools to transition into the next phase of life. Kids don't just build boats at Rocking the Boat, boats build kids.
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Rocking the Boat Profile: John Furman
Last year, John would come to hang out in the Rocking the Boat Shop after school with a friend of his who had joined the program. When he found out that you could apply to become a paid “apprentice” after a semester as a student, he decided to join, though, as he always reminded us, his real dream was to be a filmmaker. He was a very successful student during the Spring 2002 semester, and was then hired as a summer apprentice to help covert our row boats to sailboats, learning to sew sails, make masts, and sail. He then continued to work as apprentice in the fall, helping to teach the new students and learned new skills such has how to use a chainsaw and log trees in the forest. In October, we received an offer to work with a public television production company to have our students film a documentary on Rocking the Boat. John was an obvious choice and spent two weeks filming and editing a short documentary news piece on Rocking the Boat. He plans to continue his passion as he graduates William Howard Taft High School this spring and studies filmmaking in college.
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