Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center’s new program, Floating Classrooms, gives students a chance to gain STEM knowledge as they learn to sail too.

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Students from local schools are learning the ropes through a new science, math, engineering and technology program on Lake Champlain.

The Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center has offered on-craft courses since 2008, and recently created a new program, Floating Classrooms, that gives more than 900 students a year an opportunity to apply their science and math knowledge as they sail across the lake.

The hands-on learning approach at the center is part of a new state and national push for STEM programs designed to improve student aptitude in science, technology, engineering and math.

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