High school freshmen to visit UMaine for overnight, Sun Journal reports

The Sun Journal reported about 45 freshmen from Telstar Regional High School in Bethel will visit the University of Maine for an overnight field trip Dec. 8. 4-H Cooperative Extension is coordinating the visit. Students who are part of The Telstar Freshmen Academy will stay at the Black Bear Inn, eat at UMaine dining halls, visit with Telestar alumni on campus and learn about what it’s like to study and live at the university. “The Telstar Freshmen Academy believes in bringing education to life,” Norm Greenberg told the Sun Journal. Greenberg is a Telstar 4-H professional educator and social studies teacher at the UMaine 4-H Camp & Learning Center at Bryant Pond. “Going to UMaine, seeing real knowledge being created and learned, meeting THS alumni with whom they can identify, who were in their very shoes only a few years ago, are great ways to achieve the goals of the TFA,” he said.