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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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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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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Abby Robison, SMART student at Boise High School, worked with Kelly Brown at Mountain View Elementary to provide hands-on water science lessons and activities to teach the 6th grade water unit. In the classroom the students learned about storm water and runoff as contributors to water pollution by creating a “virtual river” that is influenced […]
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Lincoln High School students won a $500 grant from the Young Science Achievers Program to carry out their SMART-related environmental science research. Read more about the YSAP program here: https://jorge9445.wixsite.com/ysap.
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The Boise High School SMART team, Abby C., Shelby G., Abby R., and Quinn W., presented their year-long research to a community audience of teachers, water and stormwater experts, professors, and other interested members of the public. The team received a great response and fielded several excellent questions about their research at sites on the Boise River, […]
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Kelli Alford won the Missouri State Water Prize Award for a project inspired by the SMART institute. The award comes with a cash prize for the winner and an additional $500 for her school’s research program. Way to go Kelli!
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Camdenton High School SMART student Je’Anne Wagner has been recognized by the Educational Tours Global Citizen Scholarship for a water-related solution that addresses a community water concern. The solution that Je’Anne submitted was a direct result of her work at the UMaine SMART Institute and addresses a local concern at Lake of the Ozarks (MO) […]
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At the Region V Mississippi Science and Engineering Fair in February 2018, SMART students Tori Savors, A’miyah Porter and Wynter Brooks’s project, “Macroinverterbrates – Healthy or Contaminated in Magby Creek” won 1st place in Earth and Environmental Science. This project also won 3 special awards: Association for Women in Geosciences, the Justice Manning Award for […]
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