After more than a week of rain, the sun finally graced the Mt. Blue Campus in Farmington.
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Students send satellites skyward
The University of Southern Maine’s third annual CubeSat Design Competition was held Saturday, May 27, at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington.
Mt. Blue cheerleader receives Jamie Beth Shible award
Abbigail Swett is the 2023 recipient of the Jaime Beth Shible award. The scholarship was awarded on Friday, May 26, and honors Jaime Beth Shible, a Mt. Blue cheerleader who died unexpectedly in 1997 on Memorial Day.
Photos: Students’ hard work goes up, up and away in 3rd annual USM CubeSat Design competition
Students from a dozen middle and high schools competed in the University of Southern Maine’s third annual CubeSat Design Competition on Saturday at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington. A balloon took student-designed microsatellites to an altitude of about 120,000 feet, with the launch testing mission planning, engineering design, and performance of the student-built cubesats (a class of small cube-shaped research satellites, often weighing less than 3 pounds).
Mt. Blue High School lists honor students
FARMINGTON — Mt. Blue High School has announced the following students were named to its third quarter honor roll for the 2022-23 academic year. Highest Honors Casey Adams, Grace Allen, Madison Allen, Warren Allen, Rosabelle Armstrong, Levi Austin, Cole Baker, Preston Ball, Abigail Bartlett, Elias Bartlett, Stephen Bean, Trenton Beaudoin, Aurora Beisiegel, Kennedy Berry, Levi […]
Mckella Ford is Foster CTE Center’s Student of the Year
Mckella Ford of Wilton is completing her second year in the Early Child Education program at Foster Career and Technical Education Center on Mt. Blue Campus in Farmington.
Local robotics teams qualify for New England District Championship
Knights of Katahdin, a rookie team from Wilton, and Blue Crew, a team with students and mentors from Farmington and Jay schools, are among the 90 FIRST Robotics Competition teams that qualified for the New England District Championship being held April 5-8 in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
Western Maine Women’s Wrestling calls for more girls to join
Mike Hansen, along with Heather MacDonald and Sarah Rowe, are working hard to recruit more girls to join the Western Maine Women’s Wrestling club, which features girls from all over western Maine.
RSU 9 gets a visit from R2-Blue2
Richard Wilde of Foster Career and Technical Education Center appeared before the board and he brought with him the Blue Crew FIRST Robotics Competition team 6153 mascot, R2-Blue2.