Stormwater Management Research Team

Bangor Daily News SMART Student Paige Brown Wins Intel’s Science Talent Search! BANGOR, Maine — A Bangor High School senior who invented a gadget for improving water quality received one of three first-place awards — worth $150,000 — during Tuesday night’s Intel Science Talent Search awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., according to a news release […]

A 17-year-old just won $150,000 for her ingenious method of cleaning polluted streams Paige Brown is the MacGyver of Bangor, Maine. After extracting a gel called “alginate” from some seaweed, Brown mixed the substance with some aluminum and magnesium and then balled it up into multiple globs to be placed inside the mouths of dollar-store […]

UMaine Training 100 High School Students, Teachers to Help Solve Stormwater Problem About 100 students and teachers from 12 high schools and local Native American communities around the state will gather at the University of Maine for a three-day program that focuses on creating innovative solutions to environmental problems related to stormwater management. UMaine Stormwater […]

Maine High School Students Work to Combat Environmental Issue  84 students from 14 high schools across the state are spending part of their summer doing some cutting-edge scientific research. “For the past couple days we have been learning about stormwater as a pervasive environmental issue,” said Takquan Parks, a senior at Bangor High School. The […]

Bangor teen working to solve city’s stormwater problems Bangor Daily News, July 6, 2015 What’s in the water in Bangor? Paige Brown, a 16-year-old Bangor High School student, has a pretty good idea. For the past year, Brown has been studying pollution in six Bangor streams. Her work earned her Maine’s 2015 Stockholm Junior Water […]

SMART Project Leaders Nominated for IEEE-USA Award BY Helen Horwitz Posted: 9 Jul 2015 When Ali Abedi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine (UMaine), endorsed the nomination for the creators of a STEM literacy program for an IEEE-USA award last year, he was confident it would be a winner…see […]

  Award-Winning Maine Partnership: A Model for Boosting STEM Literacy  “Awesome” has been called the word most Americans use to describe almost everything these days. More traditionally, it’s also a term for defining something that’s outstanding or extraordinary. Either way, “awesome” is an apt description for the STEM literacy program that is part of a […]