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PORT SOUNDINGS
EVENT
Teaching Teachers
About Port Careers
Area teachers are ready to unload a container full of knowledge about the Port of Baltimore.
Thanks to the Transportation, Distribution and Maritime Logistics (TDML) Education Externship, 19 educators from Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), Anne Arundel County Public Schools, the University of Baltimore and the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) took a crash course in career opportunities at the Port and how to help their students prepare for them.
“This is an opportunity for the whole week where educators, high school teachers, college faculty, guidance counselors and career coaches can come out and learn about the transportation and logistics industry,” said Kipp Snow, CCBC Externship Coordinator. Assisting Snow with planning and organizing the course were Scott Senko, a Port captain for the NYK Line in Baltimore, and Katrina Jones, Outreach Coordinator for Maryland Department
of Transportation Maryland Port Administration’s (MDOT MPA) Harbor Development. Senko and Jones are co-chairs of the Education and Outreach Committee at the Baltimore Port Alliance (BPA), which supports the externship.
We hope the teachers take an
enthusiasm for Port-related career paths back to their classrooms to inspire the next generation of maritime port logistics workers in the Port of Baltimore.”
– Katrina Jones, Outreach Coordinator, MDOT MPA
Offered at CCBC’s Dundalk campus, the course focused on how teachers can explain the path, training and education students need to start any type of career supported by the Port. There are plenty of such careers to choose from — about 13,650 jobs at the Port with another 127,600 linked to Port activities. In high school, BCPS students can take dual credit courses at CCBC and earn high school and college credit. After graduation, students can earn TDML certification or an associate degree in applied science to gain particular knowledge for securing industry-specific jobs.
Teachers toured public and private facilities, including Domino Sugar, Rukert Terminals, C. Steinweig, MTC, Norfolk Southern and CSX facilities, Tradepoint Atlantic, Masonville Cove, U.S. Coast Guard facilities, the Seagirt
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