{"id":109,"date":"2018-04-10T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T14:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/?p=109"},"modified":"2018-04-11T19:41:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T19:41:38","slug":"maritime-conference-real-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/campus-currents\/maritime-conference-real-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Maritime Conference, Real Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"subCategory\">Regiment<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Maritime Conference, Real Deal<\/h1>\n<p>MMA hosted the Second Annual State Maritime Academy Leadership Conference on March 16-18. Current and aspiring student leaders from the academy and SUNY Maritime gathered to share ideas, network and participate in presentations offered by leaders in the military, transportation, oil and gas, and energy sectors. This year\u2019s theme was \u201cThe Real Deal: Leadership Lessons from Campus to Career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Navy Cmdr. Matthew Cegelske \u201901, Marine Systems Engineering, offered the keynote address, touching on how historical and personal events during his tenure as a student leader and early career in the Navy shaped his leadership development and career advancement.<\/p>\n<p>Cegelske tied those nascent experiences to his current role as the Commanding Officer of Cyber Defense Activity SIXTY-FOUR.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feature\"><div id=\"attachment_375\" style=\"width: 881px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-375\" src=\"\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/04\/conference-img.jpg\" alt=\"Conference picture\" width=\"871\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/04\/conference-img.jpg 871w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/04\/conference-img-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/04\/conference-img-768x472.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 871px) 100vw, 871px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at State Maritime Leadership Conference<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The program continued with presentations offered by alumni Nathan Hall \u201900, Matthew Hight \u201994, and Alex Mitchell \u201909. Speakers related their career paths, and shared how their student leadership experiences translated to their professional growth. Several themes resounded throughout the weekend, including mentorship, personal and professional ethics, humility, and passion for one\u2019s chosen profession.<\/p>\n<p>Following the daylong presentation program, delegates participated in an informal roundtable discussion facilitated by newly-inducted Regimental Commander, Bryon Fogg, during which student leaders shared challenges and solutions for possible implementation on their campuses.<span class=\"articleEnd\">\u2588<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"photoCredit2\">Photo: Janet Acker<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regiment<\/p>\n<p>Maritime Conference, Real Deal<\/p>\n<p>MMA hosted the Second Annual State Maritime Academy Leadership Conference on March 16-18. Current and aspiring student leaders from the academy and SUNY Maritime gathered to share ideas, network and participate in presentations offered by leaders in the military, transportation, oil and gas, and energy sectors. This year\u2019s theme was \u201cThe Real Deal: Leadership Lessons from Campus to Career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Navy Cmdr. Matthew Cegelske \u201901, Marine Systems Engineering, offered the keynote address, touching on how historical and personal events during his tenure as a student leader and early career in the Navy shaped his leadership development and career advancement.<\/p>\n<p>Cegelske tied those nascent experiences to his current role as the Commanding Officer of Cyber Defense Activity SIXTY-FOUR.<\/p>\n<p>The program continued with presentations offered by alumni Nathan Hall \u201900, Matthew Hight \u201994, and Alex Mitchell \u201909. Speakers related their career paths, and shared how their student leadership experiences translated to their professional growth. Several themes resounded throughout the weekend, including mentorship, personal and professional ethics, humility, and passion for one\u2019s chosen profession.<\/p>\n<p>Following the daylong presentation program, delegates participated in an informal roundtable discussion facilitated by newly-inducted Regimental Commander, Bryon Fogg, during which student leaders shared challenges and solutions for possible implementation on their campuses.\u2588<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Janet Acker<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/campus-currents\/maritime-conference-real-deal\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}