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BELFAST Belfast Area High School students joined 200 fellow students and competitors from around the state for the 75th Maine State Science Fair, with a special emphasis on the ocean’s ecology and its relation to rising temperatures.
Chelsea Gaiero, Jonah Lovejoy, and Grace Hall participated in the April 3 virtual fair, which was organized by The Jackson Laboratory and the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance.
The fair comprised 157 students representing 23 schools in eight Maine counties tuned in to present virtual research or engineering projects to a panel of judges and attend events. High school students from across the state competed for prestigious state titles and over $1 million in scholarships and awards.
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Deborah Meehan will step down from her position as Director of UMA Rockland on July 31. Meehan took on that role in 2006 when the Center was located at the Thomaston Academy building. Since then the Center moved to the Breakwater Building in Rockland, increased enrollment and visibility and started a Prison Education Partnership with Maine’s Department of Corrections.
“It has been a wonderful journey involving lots of terrific people,” said Meehan.
UMA Rockland, affectionately known as URock, has the highest enrollment of any university off-campus center, enrolling approximately 500 students each fall and spring and another 230 students in the summer. Up to 50 local high school students also participate in Early College programming each term. The Center serves students of all ages by offering local access to over 60 university degree and certificate programs in the mid-coast and supporting them with robust student services like admissi
Downeast Senior College on hiatus, seeks new volunteers
ELLSWORTH One of 17 senior colleges in Maine, the Downeast Senior College, which served Hancock County residents 50 years of age and above, is on pause, for a few different reasons.
An active organization for over 20 years, membership stood at over 100 at its peak. But, for the past year, only 46 county residents signed on.
Already lacking leadership to bring the organization into the technology age, a year-plus of pandemic restrictions then dealt the final blow, according to co-presidents Linda Hayman and Judy Hakola.
“Consequently, it has become necessary to declare the Downeast Senior College officially and effective inactive for an indeterminate period of time,” the co-presidents shared in a statement.
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Kennebec Valley Youth Symphony Orchestras perform spring concert to be presented in June
Because of coronavirus safety guidelines, an audience was not allowed, though an edited video of the performance will be shared on Facebook.
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Daniel Keller conducts the Kennebec Valley Youth Orchestra on Saturday at Snow Pond Center for the Arts in Sidney. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal
SIDNEY As the coronavirus pandemic continues, those pursuing the arts have had to get creative about how they practice and rehearse.
On Saturday at the Snow Pond Center for the Arts, the Kennebec Valley Youth Symphony Orchestras gathered for performances in Alumni Hall. In total, 33 students make up the group, split between the Kennebec Valley Youth Orchestra and the Kennebec Valley Youth Symphony. Students between elementary, middle and high school ages performed.
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Travis Mills, 2020 UMA Honorary Degree recipient, center, with Provost Joseph Szakas, left, and President Rebecca Wyke during an April 28 recording of commencement ceremonies at the University of Maine at Augusta. Photo courtesy of University of Maine at Augusta
AUGUSTA For Courtney Allen and Dylan Morin and other graduates, Saturday’s ceremonies for the University of Maine at Augusta bore all the hallmarks of commencement: speeches, awards and a recognition of the people who have completed their academic degrees.
But in this, the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ceremonies were stamped with a mark of the times: the two ceremonies, one for the Class of 2020 and one for the Class of 2021, were both held virtually, debuting online Saturday at 10 a.m., and 2 p.m.