Educational Partner-Ships’ president, Caleb Pifer, is managing the charity gala for Flagship Niagara League on Saturday, May 2, 2011. The ”Mariner’s Ball” will be a high-end black tie optional event featuring three separate acts of entertianment, open bar, raw bar, live auction, and dancing.
Tickets can be purchased at: www.flagshipniagara.org/mariner
The Flagship Niagara has earned the prestigious Sail Training Program of the Year award by the American Sail Training Association (ASTA).
The Sail Training Program of the Year award is presented to the “program which significantly contributes to the development of seamanship, navigation skills, teamwork, and leadership skills.” Sail training teaches specific knowledge and skills [...]
Caleb Pifer, President of Educational Partner-Ships, has been elected Vice Chairman of the American Sail Training Association (ASTA). ASTA was founded in Newport, Rhode Island in 1976. The mission of ASTA is to encourage character building through sail training, promote sail training to the North American public, and support education under sail.
Pifer was first elected [...]
Educational Partner-Ships is pleased to announce a partnership with one of America’s finest preparatory schools, the Sidwell Friends School. Founded in 1883 and located in Washington DC and Bethesda, Maryland, Sidwell Friends offers “students a rich and rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum designed to stimulate creative inquiry, intellectual achievement and independent thinking in a world increasingly without [...]
Educational Partner-Ships is pleased to announce a partnership with one of Pennsylvania’s premier preparatory schools, Shady Side Academy. Founded in 1883 and located in Pittsburgh, Shady Side is committed to “providing a leading education with solid study skills and strong foundation in character development”. Educational Partner-Ships is working with Shady Side to develop a customized [...]
Educational Partner-Ships has expanded its list of partner schools for the firm’s History Consortium on the Great Lakes. Allegheny College will again serve as the lead school and will provide instruction via Professor Franklin Forts. A sampling of new institutions includes, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island; Canisius College, Buffalo New York, Texas Christian University, Fort [...]
The Newport Harbor Guide recently published an article written by the president of Educational Partner-Ships, Caleb Pifer. The article, entitled Sailing to Learn: Learning to Lead, talked about the strong social attributes of sail training, as well as the historic connections that sail training has with the community of Newport, Rhode Island.
http://www.newportharborguide.com/articles/art10_sailingToLearn.html
About the Newport Harbor Guide:
Published every spring, [...]
Mt. Holyoke students chronicled and blogged about their experience aboard the Flagship Niagara. https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/1812voyage
One of the most powerful quotes is as follows:
So far the voyage has been fantastic. I graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst two days before driving to Erie, Pennsylvania. The following two weeks completely changed my life. I feel as though I [...]
June 15, 2010
On Saturday 15 May, seven students from the northwest Pennsylvania schools Allegheny College and Edinboro University set sail on the Flagship Niagara. For the next three weeks the students – now “sail trainees” – were full members of the ship’s crew, working, eating, and sleeping alongside professional sailors and dedicated volunteers. In their [...]
Educational Partner-Ships is a proud member of the American Sail Training Association. In addition, Caleb Pifer, president of EPS serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Sail Training Association. The below text is from the U.S. Senate Resolution that officially recognizes the American Sail Training Association as the official body for sail training [...]