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Summer 2025 program filled with exciting topics

Summer 2025 program filled with exciting topics

We have packed our nine-week summer program with hands-on experiential learning topics that are exciting, fun, and speak to: BSSC a la carte (Ship to Shore: Discovering BSSC); the intersection of boats and marine science (Scopes and Boats); weather forecasting (Day to Day); the arctic and antarctic regions (Top to […]

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Schooner Tyrone returns to host BSSC students in upcoming season

Schooner Tyrone returns to host BSSC students in upcoming season

We‘re thrilled to share that six BSSC students in the Stay’s’l Program will be aboard the Schooner Tyrone for three nights and four days for real-time, at-sea marine science and sail training during Windjammer Days this summer. Captain Rayford Chew and first mate Carolyn Corbin will welcome the students aboard […]

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Meet our apprentices!

Meet our apprentices!

We’re pleased to introduce you to our 2025 apprentices. They will work with other members of the Boothbay Sea and Science Center team to help us provide a safe, fun, friendly and dynamic hands-on learning experience for our students this summer. We’re excited to have them aboard. George Messner My […]

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First National Bank donates $5,000 toward Rebuilding Pier

First National Bank donates $5,000 toward Rebuilding Pier

Boothbay Sea and Science Center (BSSC) is pleased to announce a generous donation of $5,000 from First National Bank toward rebuilding of our main pier. The funds will go towards the $278,500 cost of the project, which began last year and will be completed this spring. “A very big thank […]

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Buy a bag, help BSSC and the environment!

Buy a bag, help BSSC and the environment!

Hannaford has again selected Boothbay Sea and Science Center as the MARCH recipient of its Community Bag Program. For every reusable shopping bag you purchase at the Hannaford store at 180 Townsend Avenue, Boothbay Harbor, we will receive a $1 towards our program. Reusable bags help reduce landfill waste and […]

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That's a wrap! We complete our 12th season

That’s a wrap! We complete our 12th season

As we wrap up our 12th season, our second on Linekin Bay, we’re celebrating the steady growth of the Boothbay Sea and Science Center and our commitment to the families and communities of the Boothbay Region and beyond. This summer we offered nine weeks of integrated marine science and sailing […]

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Community Open House, July 27

Community Open House, July 27

Join us for a Community Open House, Saturday July 27 from 4-6 pm at 12 Carter Road in East Boothbay. Come and enjoy a tour of our beautiful Linekin Bay Campus—check out our boat shed classroom, dock, floats and meet the BSSC this summer’s sea and science instructors. Executive Director […]

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