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 Since 1989, teachers
and youth leaders have participated in annual workshops in residence at
St. Helena Island Light Station in northern Michigan's Straits of
Mackinac. Additional workshops are held around the Great Lakes by
arrangements.
Comprehensive heritage education materials have been produced and distributed, including the regularly updated Educational Resources Guide.
To date, over 3,000 teachers and youth leaders and an estimated 400,000 young people have been reached through GLLKA's workshops. Click here to read some of their testimonials.
Placement in
the workshop will be on a first come-first served basis. The
workshop size will be Click here
to print the Great Lakes Maritime Education Workshop application which can be faxed or mailed
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In addition, work with Scout merit badges and individual Scout and
student projects continues at GLLKA facilities reaching young people
from coast to coast.
Full cost to
put on each workshop is $800 per person, however, the Great Lakes
Lighthouse Keepers Association will subsidize the majority of the cost,
including boat transportation out of Mackinaw City, MI, to and from St.
Helena Island. The workshop fee is $275, which partially pays for
educational materials, food, housing at the 1873 historic light station,
and a personal membership in the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers
Association.