DIVISION OF CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION

Dr. Carolyn L. Taylor, Assistant Superintendent – 221-4141

 

 


                                             CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Patty Hughston, Director – 221-4019

 

 

                        TO:                  REEF Ball Inc.

                                               

                  FROM:                  Stephen Boykin, Supervisor 

 

                THROUGH:            Patty Hughston

 

                   DATE:     November 10, 2005

 

                        RE:                   Grant Proposal for Marine Technology

                                                Alma Bryant High School

 

The Marine Technology program has been in existence for over 30 years in the Seaport

Town of Bayou La Batre.  The fishing industry has trained students to enter the 

commercial fishing industry for boat building, net building (shrimping), commercial

oystering and all other related fields.  There are only two U.S. Coast Guard approved

programs like this in the United States; the other being in Alaska which was modeled

after ours.  Students follow a rigorous marine curriculum starting in the ninth grade and are completers at the end of their 12th grade year.

 

Marine Technology is asking for $25,000.00 grant monies to start a Reef Ball Building

Program called “Canes Reef Ball Project Replenish and Research”.  The Grant monies will

be used to purchase equipment and moulds to manufacture future reef balls in various sizes.

The reefs will be used to improve the water quality for oyster production, to attract pelagic

fish for reefs that were destroyed during Hurricane Katrina, and to improve the coral reefs that

are now presently off shore.  The school is located in the Bayou La Batre area in a new

School-to-Work Program building which has a fifteen ton overhead crane.  The school will

receive concrete donations from local adopters in the business community.  The possibilities

are endless for the Bayou La Batre area where 75% of the homes and businesses were

destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.   

 

Located adjacent to the Marine Technology Program is our Aquaculture Program which is

funded by Chevron Offshore Oil.  This innovation program is growing red snapper, cobia, and

trigger fish in order to replenish the reef community.   

 

Thank you for your consideration of our grant project.  Start up dates are depending of

private funds received and grant awards.  The school can start production by December 1, 2005.  Please be reminded that the school has available 501C for non-profit status.

 

 

 

 

Contact Information:          Stephen Boykin, Supervisor

                                         Mobile County Public School System

                                         504 Government Street

                                         Mobile, Alabama  36602

 

                                         (251) 221-4019  Office

                                         (251) 221-4017  Fax

                                         (251) 454-3733  Cell (Wk)

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