For two weeks 24 kids, aged 6 - 13 years old, built, painted, launched and sailed three 10-foot wooden sailboats while learning math, science, language arts, history, geography, art, music, windsurfing and more.

     "Any time we can get kids on the water it's a good thing, said Beth Winkler, an Olympic windsurfer who owns and operates Banana River Windsurfing Resort with her husband Greg, who is  also an Olympic class windsurfer. "Sailing is sailing. Windsurfing, sailing, it doesn't matter. Start them out any way you can." Winkler participated in the workshop by teaching the kids about the wind and how a sail uses the wind to power the boats that the kids built. During the workshop the kids were treated to a windsurfing lesson with veteran windsurfer and traveling instructor Roger Jackson, who used Starboard boards and Sailworks sails to demonstrate the basics to the kids. Jackson also conducts clinics throughout the year at the resort and around the country.