{"id":23874,"date":"2024-04-17T11:10:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T15:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/?p=23874"},"modified":"2024-04-17T11:10:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T15:10:55","slug":"george-grindle-outstanding-student-in-secondary-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/2024\/04\/17\/george-grindle-outstanding-student-in-secondary-education\/","title":{"rendered":"George Grindle: Outstanding Student in Secondary Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-image23874_25bdd2-43 .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image23874_25bdd2-43\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/04\/George-Grindle.jpg\" class=\"kb-advanced-image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/04\/George-Grindle-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of George Grindle.\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-23877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/04\/George-Grindle-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/04\/George-Grindle-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/04\/George-Grindle-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/04\/George-Grindle-105x70.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/04\/George-Grindle-317x211.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/04\/George-Grindle-423x282.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/04\/George-Grindle-634x423.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/04\/George-Grindle-846x564.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/04\/George-Grindle-951x634.jpg 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2024\/04\/George-Grindle.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Photo courtesy George Grindle. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>George Grindle is the 2024 Outstanding Student in Secondary Education in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development. Grindle will graduate with a concentration in physical science with a focus on physics education. During his time at UMaine, he served as president of CRU UMaine. Read more below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Orono, Maine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>High School:<\/strong> Orono High School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parents:<\/strong> John Grindle and Beth Haynes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Special thanks:<\/strong> I would like to especially thank my parents, friends and church family for encouraging me to pursue my passion for education through many hard choices. &#8220;For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts&#8221; \u2014 C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Favorite UMaine memory:<\/strong> I do not dare attempt to rank my\u00a0favorite memory of UMaine. I have many fond memories of my college experience for many different reasons. However, one of my fond but mundane memories\u00a0was taking my motorcycle to my 8:00 a.m. calculus classes. Nearly every day in the fall I got to start my day with a beautiful\u00a0ride, superb parking (back when motorcycles could park on the mall) and calculus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Grindle is the 2024 Outstanding Student in Secondary Education in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"George Grindle is the 2024 Outstanding Student in Secondary Education in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":222},"categories":[5,8,954,1764,222],"tags":[5090,25,4415,5089,39,616,566,3401,1808,1085,61,65],"class_list":["post-23874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-news","category-school-of-learning-and-teaching","category-secondary-education","category-student-alumni-profiles","tag-c-s-lewis","tag-college-of-education-and-human-development","tag-cru-umaine","tag-george-grindle","tag-maine","tag-orono","tag-orono-high-school","tag-physical-science","tag-physics","tag-secondary-education","tag-umaine","tag-university-of-maine"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":5,"label":"In the News"},{"value":8,"label":"News"},{"value":954,"label":"School of Learning and Teaching"},{"value":1764,"label":"Secondary Education"},{"value":222,"label":"Student &amp; Alumni Profiles"}],"post_tag":[{"value":5090,"label":"C.S. 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