STATE — The Maine Timber Research and Environmental Education Foundation (Maine TREE) nationally acclaimed Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tours haven been scheduled for 2022. The four-day, three-night Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tour is a professional development program focused on immersing Maine educators in the northern forests of Maine. Opening with a workshop featuring Project Learning […]
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MEOC upcoming events
STATE — The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting free individualized sessions, Essentials of College Planning for adults 19 & over who are looking for a new career or returning to higher education. The sessions are being held at the following dates and times: Virtual: Tuesday, April 19 at 10 & 11 a.m. Wednesday, […]
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K-12 students invited to submit short films to festival
STATE — The 44th annual Maine Student Film + Video Festival (MSFVF) is currently accepting submissions until June 15. All Maine students grades K-12 are eligible to enter for free. Films will be judged by category: Narrative, Documentary, and Creative (animated, experimental, etc.), and by age group: Grades K-5; Grades 6-8; Grades 9-12. Students can […]
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UMaine grants automatic admission, scholarships to Aspirations Incubator grads
ORONO — University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy announced today that qualifying high school graduates from the Lerner Foundation’s Aspirations Incubator programs for rural Maine youth will receive $500 merit scholarships and automatic admission to UMaine or its regional campus, the University of Maine at Machias, as UMS Transforms Affiliates. Aspirations Incubator (AI) is a […]
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UMaine offers free summer courses for high schoolers
ORONO — University of Maine Early College summer course registration is open, with over 50 online courses available to high school students tuition-free. Qualified high school students can earn up to 12 college credits per year at UMaine and its regional campus in Machias. Early College students have access to world-class faculty at Maine’s flagship […]
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Education: College prices
Yes. College is expensive. No. It’s not out of reach. Let’s look at an example. The University of Maine at Farmington: list price for tuition, room and board, and extras next year, $21,182. Sticker shock! (All costs are estimates, kindly provided by Farmington’s Financial Aid Office.) But few students pay this amount. Assume that, like […]
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Chet Jordan scholarship available for student leaders
STATE — Student leaders are encouraged to apply for the Chet Jordan Leadership Award at the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF). A native of Portland, Jordan graduated from South Portland High School in 1945. He then joined the service, and following World War II and entered the United States Merchant Marine Academy in King’s Point, New […]
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Education: Forest Maine
To early Euro-Americans, Maine simply was forest; an attraction for those whose homelands were increasingly short of trees. Early colonists reveled in seemingly limitless firewood and wrote “home” about it. Trees were the stuff of houses and heating, and an export product floated to the coast and processed in early sawmills. The British Navy and […]
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Bethel Rotary Club and Interact
BETHEL — The Telstar High School Interact Club, a service organization affiliated with the Rotary Club of Bethel, recently raised $100 in a 20-minute collection at the school to support Rotary International’s Polio Plus program. Polio Plus seeks to eradicate polio worldwide. The Telstar funds raised will pay to vaccinate 200 children against the disease. […]
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Dean’s List
RIT ROCHESTER — The following local residents made the Dean’s List at Rochester Institute of Technology for the Fall 2021 Semester: Dylan Greenberg of Hanover, who is in the computer engineering program. Full-time degree-seeking undergraduate students are eligible for Dean’s List if their term GPA is greater than or equal to 3.400; they do not […]