General Interest - Studying in a Floating Classroom for a Life at Sea

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inside the ship named Golden Bear, it is hot - - and the engines are noisy. But Vasile Tudoran loves he is doing here. VASILE TUDORAN: "I knew I to fix stuff since I was a little kid." Tudoran is a mechanical engineering student at the California Academy. Most of the Academy's students are required to training on this ship. Teacher Robert Jackson says this them the "hands on" experience that businesses want. ROBERT : "I would say the majority of our students have one to two job offers before they graduate. Most those job offers are between $60 and $120,000. Our have such a broad knowledge they can go anywhere." says students get jobs working on ships, with electric centers or satellite companies. The academy has only about students. About 94 percent of them get a job their studies are completed. Andrew Di Tucci says he other students know they must follow the Academy's rules. DI TUCCI: "'"It's not like your normal college experience be. Were a paramilitary school, we have uniforms, we formations ---- just disciplining yourself to show up and grooming standards and be where you need to be, sit down, buckle your belt, and study." The students heavy responsibilities on the ship and homework for their . BILL SCHMID: "'"Ship's officers are kind of like your or your airplane pilot - you don't want them be right only 70 percent of the time. We much have to be right all the time. That's hard thing to teach young people ---- that there's tolerance for mistakes." Andrew Di Tucci loves life at . ANDREW DI TUCCI: "My favorite thing about it is up every morning and seeing nothing but the ocean all sides of you. I get a thrill out that." Feeling that excitement ---- and eventually getting paid it ---- is what influences these students. I'm Shirley .

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