Category: Awards and Honors

Three Maine teachers finalists for science, math awards

Correction: This press release has been corrected to note that Ken Vencile is currently a biology teacher at Camden Hills Regional High School and has been a teacher for 14 years, but not all of them at Camden Hills.

AUGUSTA – Two science teachers and one math teacher from Maine have been announced as finalists for the 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. The National Science Foundation, which is known for its rigorous selection process, will select up to one mathematics and one science winner per state to be recognized next spring in Washington, D.C.

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Bangor High grad a finalist for global science prize

A recent Bangor High School graduate has $1,000 more to apply to her college education after rising to the finalist ranks in a prestigious international competition focused on student endeavors into water-related research.

Leila Musavi, an Orono resident who graduated from Bangor High School in June, was one of the top five finalists for the 2011 Stockholm Junior Water Prize. The competition is sponsored by the Stockholm International Water Institute.

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Wiscasset student artists honored

The Maine Department of Education has displayed student artwork in its Cross State Office Building lobby for eight years.

On June 7, the Department invited student artists from Wiscasset — whose work is currently on display — to celebrate their work at a Blaine House reception attended by Maine’s First Lady Ann LePage and Maine State Board of Education chairman James Banks.

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Buckfield teachers receive agriculture honor

The following is excerpted from a Maine Department of Agriculture press release.

AUGUSTA — Annette Caldwell and Gretchen Kimball, teachers at the Buckfield Junior/Senior High School in Buckfield, Maine, have received one of five top awards in the nation for “Excellence in Teaching about Agriculture.” This award is offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Agriculture in the Classroom (NAITC) Consortium. Teachers from all 50 states are eligible.

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Maine Students Selected for U.S. Senate Youth Program

Students Headed to Washington, D. C., and to Receive $5000 Scholarship

AUGUSTA – Senators Olympia J. Snowe and Susan M. Collins have announced the names of the two students who have been selected as delegates to the 49th annual United States Senate Youth Program, which will be held March 5-12 in Washington, D.C. David Bibeau of Scarborough and Krysta Moulton of Athens were chosen from across the state to be part of the group of 104 student delegates who will attend the program.

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Governor Praises Students for Science, Math Achievements

Two head to nationally acclaimed science camp, six represent Maine at national design competition, and one represents the U.S. in an international water prize competition

AUGUSTA – Gov. John Baldacci recognized nine Maine students in his State House office for their achievements in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Two of the students, from Bridgton and Wells, were Maine’s delegates to the nationally acclaimed and highly selective National Youth Science Camp. He recognized six others, who attend Falmouth High School, for their high level participation in a national engineering challenge. And he recognized Rebecca Ye of Bangor, the U.S. winner of the 2010 Stockholm Junior Water Prize.

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