GORHAM — The Maine Engineering Promotional Council has announced that 16 schools have been selected to receive $500 each to bus students to the Maine Engineering Expo at the University of Southern Maine on March 4. 

The event will be held at the Gorham campus from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

This is the fourth year MEPC has provided bus grants to schools throughout Maine. 

Locally, the grants will go to:

• Oxford Elementary School;

• Winthrop Grade School and Winthrop Middle School;

• Mt. Abram High School, Salem;

• Gray-New Gloucester High School; and

• Auburn School Department 21st CCLC after-school programs (in six schools).

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