Musavi, SMART Institute cited in BDN article on Bangor High School senior
The Bangor Daily News reported Paige Brown, a student at Bangor High School, is one of 40 U.S. high school seniors recognized as a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious precollege science and math competition. Brown is one of 57 students enrolled in Bangor High School’s STEM Academy, a partnership with the University of Maine that is now in its fourth year, according to the article. “This is a great honor for Bangor High School and Paige who deservedly was selected as a finalist,” said Mohamad Musavi, associate dean of the College of Engineering at UMaine. Musavi has been instrumental in the formation of the BHS STEM Academy, which has benefitted from a National Science Foundation funded Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program, the article states. The Stormwater Management Research Team is one of EPSCoR’s tracks, and Brown was invited last summer to be the keynote speaker at the SMART Conference.