Today's topic was Maritime Navigation! The kids used our new tablets, purchased with funds from the Pat Santucci grant, to find their position on the earth, and to discover what stars are in the night sky above them tonight! They finished the day by creating their own constellations. We look forward to seeing the kids on Thursday afternoons!

We hosted NOAA's hiring event last Thursday in our conference room to huge success. We had double the foot traffic of the Gulfport event two days prior! Seven candidates were hired on the spot, with several more candidates beginning the process of being hired at the event.

Last week, the Jackson County Historical and Genealogical Society met here at the Maritime Center. Dan Lee gave a tutorial on using the Mississippi Department of Archives and History online database for research purposes. Using the database, you can access the digital archive of the MDAH for any topic of interest concerning Mississippi history. The collections are being continually digitized, so more will be added as research continues.

You can access the MDAH digital database here.

Don Barron posted this image to Facebook wondering: what happened here?!

Stay tuned for upcoming dates of our Maritime exhibit "soft opening" in March!!  Historic shipbuilder family stories, pirogues, Mississippi Gulf Coast's own sea creature skeleton and so much more!!!