Students in the University of Maine’s outdoor leadership program have created a website that K–12 teachers can use to plan outdoor lessons and activities. The site features videos, quizzes, slideshows and other resources produced by UMaine students on topics ranging from mountain biking and wilderness survival to outdoor ethics issues, such as planning trips that […]
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Registration is open for an online program, “Teaching from the Heart: Nonviolent Communication in the Classroom,” presented by the University of Maine Hutchinson Center. The three-day professional development program for educators, teachers and those working with children from preschool to third grade is scheduled for 3:30–5:30 p.m. Jan 25–27. Instructor Gina Simm has taught early […]
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Buoy Maine, a pitch competition launched by Maine Sea Grant to foster innovation and entrepreneurship that supports the state’s working waterfront and coastal communities, will fund 10 innovative projects and ideas that help better address the challenges of operating a business during the COVID-19 pandemic. Funding for the awards comes from the NOAA-National Sea Grant […]
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Registration is now open for all online winter professional development programs through the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. All winter 2021 professional development programs will be 20% off Black Friday (Nov. 27) through Cyber Monday (Nov. 30). More information is available on the Hutchinson Center website. The UMaine Hutchinson Center’s professional development programs […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension, in partnership with the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension and University of Vermont Extension, has been awarded $328,191 in support of developing and delivering remote STEM and agricultural sciences programming to rural K–12 students across the three-state region. The project, “Northeast 4-H Collaborative: Closing the Gap,” submitted to the […]
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PreK–12 schools in Maine and around the country reopened for in-person instruction this fall after abruptly closing in the spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. But with many now operating on a hybrid schedule to limit the spread of the disease, educators and families continue to face uncertainty, and demand for reliable resources related to […]
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University of Maine graduate student and alumna Maylinda Boynton of Belfast, Maine learned a lot about performing arts at UMaine. Before she graduated in 2019 with two degrees — in music education and political science — she performed with four different band groups, sang with University Singers and Mainely Voices, and acted in Maine Masque […]
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Registration is open for an online critical thinking workshop, Increasing Effectiveness with Critical Thinking, offered via Zoom 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Oct. 23 and Oct. 30 through the University of Maine Hutchinson Center. This two-day workshop, which is presented in partnership with the Maine Business School, will improve participants’ ability to discriminate between facts and arbitrary […]
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Editor’s note: story updated Sept. 21. Maine residents are invited to participate in a new project at the University of Maine that is using the arts to tell the story of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Jack Pine Project, a collaboration of the Maine Folklife Center, Maine Studies Program and the Hutchinson Center, connects professional artists, […]
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The University of Maine Hutchinson Center will offer PrepMatters, a Zoom course for high school students planning to take the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) this fall. The course runs from 11 a.m. to noon Saturdays and Sundays for three weeks beginning Oct. 3. For 15 years, course instructor Mary Smyth, M.D., has tutored students preparing […]
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