EDU Labs
September 1, 2 & 3, 2021, 11:00AM & 2:00PM - Ford Room
CRMM’s EDU Labs offer even more hands-on opportunities to learn about maritime history. These 15-30 minute labs feature activities like baking hardtack, crafting sailor’s valentines out of seashells, and making miniature working models of Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.
September 1 - Lighthouses
Please join our Education staff to learn all about lighthouses!
Participants will discover how lighthouse lens work, what is was like to live in a lighthouse, and will leave with a working model
of Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.
September 2 - Sailors' Valentines
Bring home a handmade souvenir from the Museum by making your own sailors' valentine!
Sailors' valentines were gifts that seamen would often bring to their family and friends from their travels.
We will be working with many types of seashells to craft our own designs.
September 3 - Hardtack
Join our Education staff for a short baking demonstration and learn to make your own hardtack!
This sea biscuit was an important food for sailors traveling on long voyages. Visitors of all ages will leave this program
with their very own handmade hardtack biscuits.
Saturday Rope Making
(to resume early 2022)
Join our volunteer Kenny each Saturday from 11-1 where he will be doing what has done every Saturday for 25 years,
teaching our visitors how to make rope the old fashioned way. Each group gets to keep the rope they make.
ROV Club
The Columbia River Maritime Museum’s ROV Club is made up of a small group of students from Astoria Middle School who design and build their very own Remotely-Operated Vehicle (ROV) and compete in the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Regional Competition at the end of the school year. This STEAM-focused group meets weekly during our students’ second semester.
The Columbia River Maritime Museum’s ROV Club is made up of a small group of students from Astoria Middle School who design and build their very own Remotely-Operated Vehicle (ROV) and compete in the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Regional Competition at the end of the school year. This STEAM-focused group meets weekly during our students’ second semester.
ROV Camp
The Columbia River Maritime Museum hosts a week-long camp each summer for incoming 6th and 7th grade students interested in robotics, oceanography, engineering, underwater archaeology, and marine technology. Campers design, construct, and test their own Remotely-Operated Vehicles (ROVs) to complete a simulated mission to retrieve items from the historical ‘Beeswax Shipwreck’ off the Oregon coast. Scholarships are available for this awesome STEAM-focused program.
The Columbia River Maritime Museum hosts a week-long camp each summer for incoming 6th and 7th grade students interested in robotics, oceanography, engineering, underwater archaeology, and marine technology. Campers design, construct, and test their own Remotely-Operated Vehicles (ROVs) to complete a simulated mission to retrieve items from the historical ‘Beeswax Shipwreck’ off the Oregon coast. Scholarships are available for this awesome STEAM-focused program.
