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Your Port At Work, Port of Seattle Update, Fall 1997
Students in Seattle and their counterparts around the world have an opportunity to learn about world trade in a compelling way through the “Boomerang Box,” a student-decorated container.
Through the website — www.apl.com/boomerangbox — students and teachers are learning which countries send many of the clothes we wear, the products we use and the food we eat. They also are discovering people in fascinating and unusual jobs in the world of international trade.
The APL Eagle — a character based on APL’s eagle logo — files regular reports on the World Wide Web with information about the container’s location, contents and activities. These live reports include questions geared to student between kindergarten and 12th grade.
The project is a collaboration of the Port of Seattle, APL, King County Councilmember Greg Nickels, the Magnusen Center for International Transportation and Telecommunications and Sound Schools, a coalition of six schools in West Seattle.
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Boomerang Box: What Does It Mean?
The Boomerang Box is a graphical metaphor for the reciprocal relationship of international trade — goods flows out of the Pacific Northwest and imports flow in. Similarly, the route of the container will be like the path of a boomerang circling North to South through Asia and back to the Pacific Northwest (with a few twists and turns).
The Boomerang Box program is one way that the public and business partners hope to prepare students for the global market-place. International trade supports one of every four jobs in Washington state. Next to aerospace, trade is the highest contributor to jobs in the state. About $65 billion in trade passes through the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma each year, creating billions in business revenues and hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue for the state.
The Boomerang Box adventure creates a unique learning experience on how international trade affects our region and the future of the next generation.
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