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Bangor SMART student is QuestBridge Finalist

Lily McLaughlin has been named a QuestBridge Finalist (https://www.questbridge.org/high-school-students/national-college-match/finalist-profile). Finalists exhibit high academic achievement and qualify financially. Lily has been matched with Wesleyan University for a full 4-year scholarship.

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SMART program highlighted in NSF Impacts story

The SMART program was featured as an online National Science Foundation Impact news story on May 10th. The piece, titled “Students monitor local pollution,“ highlights the program’s opportunities for underrepresented students to engage in science and engineering by researching and designing solutions to locally-relevant stormwater issues.  

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Bangor SMART students capture local, regional and national awards

Bangor High School SMART students have been wildly successful this spring at various STEM competitions: Ty Delargy placed 1st in the engineering category at the New England Northern Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, and then went on to place 3rd in engineering at the National JSHS in Maryland in early May. Mei Tian won the Maine […]

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Woodside SMART team recognized for leadership in sustainability

The Woodside High School (California) SMART team was recently recognized by the San Mateo County Office of Education for the action they are taking to integrate and apply sustainability principles in their community. Woodside SMART was one of 12 projects awarded through the One Planet School Challenge. They won recognition for a mid level entry in […]

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SMART Conference 2015

The 2015 SMART participants kicked-off their storm water education with a 3-day long, intensive training seminar hosted by the University of Maine on their Orono campus.  The seminar was attended by both students and their teachers from 8 different high schools across Maine.  In all, 80 participants learned the science and engineering of storm water from […]

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