On Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at the State Capitol in Hartford, Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) recognized 50 students who participated in this year’s pilot Student Boating Safety Ambassador Program as part of National Safe Boating Week.

“Introducing safe boating practices and procedures to students at the middle and high school level will help prepare them for the future – when they may be boating with family and friends,” said Robert Klee, DEEP Commissioner. “Our goal is to educate students on safe, recreational boating procedures by providing important information to them during their teenage years.”

The program was designed to create awareness at their schools about boating safety in a peer to peer approach.  Students from 35 shoreline middle and high schools created boating safety presentations that were put on display for a month at the ambassador’s school.  The displays were also showcased at the Legislative Office Building this week during National Safe Boating Week (May 16-22).

The students will receive credit for their project as either a community service project, senior project or extra credit.  For their hard work, the students will be awarded Certificates of Appreciation from the DEEP.

Students are in grades 5-12, ages 11-18, and are from the following towns: 

Bridgeport	Colchester	East Hartford	Farmington
Glastonbury	Greenwich	Groton City	Groton
Guilford	Haddam	Ledyard	Madison
New Fairfield	New Haven	New London (2)	Norwalk
Norwich	Old Lyme	Old Saybrook	Shelton
Stonington	Wallingford	Waterford	West Haven
Wolcott	Woodstock