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📢 You don't want to miss this! 📢 Join us Saturday, March 8, for our Battle of Hampton Roads Commemoration! This year's event will highlight the 50th anniversary of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary and many of the maritime careers, past and present, that have been a part of Monitor's story. 🥼 STEM challenges ⚓ TWO In-person Lectures 🤿 Maritime Career Exploration ✨ and more! PLUS... guests 10 and over will have the opportunity to go behind-the-scenes into the Batten Conservation Complex a

3-D MODELING USS MONITOR’S ARTIFACTS ⚓️✨ Earlier this year, over 300 visitors came out to witness our collaboration with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (MNMS), and the University of West Florida to scan and 3-D model some of Monitor’s recovered artifacts. In this video, you can see our teams working together towards the same goal - putting a piece of Monitor’s incredible past in your hands. In the future, these scans will allow us to 3-D