Chicago Maritime Arts Center will return to Lathrop Homes again this summer to offer a boating skills class during the weeks of July 25th - August 1, 2025. Building Kids, Building Boats. We conduct boat building classes and boating skills/marine ecology classes for Chicago's youth, along with a Mariners in Training program, a pathway for boating jobs. HANDS ON GUIDANCE is offered to each and every program and camp participant ages 11-17. We conduct goal-based projects to encourage teamwork and communication and spur initiative. These experiences foster interpersonal development, STEM, and life skills while encouraging water recreation, planet stewardship, creativity, and alternative vocational opportunities to broaden the horizon of each child. Kids benefit from a reminder that while book learning is important, industrial arts and life skills hold importance as well. Our programs and camps are designed to impart the basic life skills families and schools offer.