WFVX-TV (Fox 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) featured the 20th annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative student conference, which involved more than a thousand students and included over 40 sessions centered around engaging them in essential computer science skills and knowledge.
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The Courier-Gazette and the Lincoln County News shared that the UMaine Extension 4-H is seeking volunteers for the Union Fair July 26–30, 2023.
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The Republican Journal reported that Searsport District Middle School teacher Anna Ramgren and her eighth graders competed at the Windstorm Challenge at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center.
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The Bangor Daily News noted that Shawn Laatsch, director of the Versant Power Astronomy Center at the University of Maine, will assist with the Maine Discovery Museum’s pilot of the Science Teacher Academy, a federally funded pilot program for kindergarten through fifth grade teachers. In the introductory conference on Monday, Laatsch gave teachers ideas on […]
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The University of Maine College of Engineering and Computing is accepting rolling registrations for the Maine Summer Transportation Institute (MSTI), open to Maine middle school students. MSTI will run from 9 a.m.–4 p.m. during two, one-week sessions, July 10–14 and July 17–21. Participants will engage in STEM related hands-on activities, on-campus presentations and field trips. […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot promoted “S.P.E.A.K.,” or Students Promoting Equity, Art, and Knowledge, a new multimedia art exhibit created by Troy Howard Middle School’s eighth grade social studies students located at the H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast.
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WABI-TV (Channel 5 in Bangor) and WFVX-TV (ABC 7/Fox 22 in Bangor) featured the 2023 Simmons Windstorm Challenge, which brought roughly 600 middle and high school students from across the state to the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center.
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The Bangor Daily News featured a literacy night at Alton Elementary School with University of Maine students at the College of Education and Human Development. The College of Education and Human Development has incorporated literacy nights at area schools into the curriculum for education majors for more than 20 years. It’s an opportunity for UMaine […]
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Margaruette Seguin, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H youth development professional, was featured on the Grounded in Maine podcast discussing how she is cultivating the next generation of Earth lovers through her work.
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In an article about the Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust’s Camp Mummichog summer day camp, the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper noted that campers ages of 9–12 who are participating in “Marine Adventures” July 31–Aug. 4 will conduct their own experiments, dissect a squid, visit a lab at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center to […]
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