Schools

Brewer Fifth Graders take Destination Imagination First Place Prize

Students to Compete in Global Competition

(Brewer, ME) – Fifth graders from Brewer’s State Street School walked away with a first place win at the Destination Imagination State Celebration on Saturday.  The team competed against regional winners from all over the state at the Tournament, held at University of Maine in Orono.  They are the only Brewer team to ever advance to the Global Competition.

Destination Imagination is an educational program in which student teams solve open-ended Challenges and present their solutions at Tournaments.

Giggey Girl Gowns is Open for Girls in Need!

Giggey Girl Gowns will be open today from 1-3! Girls can come start to get dresses today and we are still taking dress donations as well! If you even have a slight worry about finances, come get a prom dress from us! We're at the Community of Christ Church; 128 Peirce Rd. Brewer!

Angels School Store Gearing Up----In Need of Donations

Angels School Store Gearing Up----In Need of Donations

The Charlotte White Center Angels Program is a community based outreach program that seeks to improve the well being of children and adults in our community through projects designed to develop spirit, pride, and personal responsibility.  Every year we sponsor a School Store.  The Store opens for one week each year for children to come in and shop, filling their “back to school needs”.  Although most of our shoppers acutely need this help to be ready for the school year, we choose to emphasize life skills and personal responsibility, rather then need.  Children are given a special “checkbook”, in which they can make deposits through doing good deeds throughout the month prior to the store opening.  When a child visits the school store, they then receive Charlotte White Center cash for the good deeds that they have done.  The child then gets to do their back to school shopping.

Gannett Journalism Scholarships Available

ELLSWORTH & PORTLAND—The Guy P. Gannett Scholarship Fund, established in 2000 by the trustees of the Gannett Foundation through the Maine Community Foundation, seeks applications.

The Gannett Scholarship provides renewable support for students majoring in journalism or a field reasonably related, including print, broadcast, or electronic media. The fund helps pay tuition to attend an undergraduate, graduate, trade, or technical school.

Applicants must be graduates of Maine high schools or have been home-schooled in Maine. Students will be chosen based on demonstrated interest in journalism through their choice of coursework and extracurricular activities, as well as financial need and academic achievement.

The deadline for applications is May 1, 2011.

Old Town Takes Top Spot for 5th Year

Old Town Takes Top Spot for 5th Year

The Old Town Concert Band came in just 41 votes ahead of the Brewer High School Jazz Ensemble to win first place in the Bangor Area Breakfast Rotary All That Jazz competition. 

The event showcased the talents of musicians from four area high schools.  In addition to Bangor and Brewer High Schools, Hampden Academy's Voices Unlimited and the Bangor High School Concert Band performed for a crowd of nearly 750 Thursday evening.  Each school will receive $1 thousand for competing, and the Old Town Concert Band will get an additional $2 thousand for it's first place finish.

The BangorArea Breakfast Rotary Club gives each participating school 200 tickets to sell for the event.  A ticket is the chance to vote for the best band, and Old Town had the most votes.  It was the school's fifth straight year with top honors. 

The Old Town concert band performed three pieces, two ja

UMaine center helps Auburn manufacturer

ORONO - University of Maine researchers in the College of Engineering's Advanced Manufacturing Center and AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center have successfully designed a composite toe-protection insert for Falcon Performance Footwear, an Auburn shoe company.

The new composite component replaces traditional steel toe protection.

Annual Maine History Day Competition to Commence in Augusta

250 students will compete for the opportunity to travel to the
National Competition in Maryland

AUGUSTA – On Wednesday, March 23 the University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) will host 250 students from across the state as they take part in Maine History Day, an annual educational competition for all Maine students in grades 6 through 12.  An award ceremony will be held at 2:00 pm in Jewett Hall at UMA.

Maine History Day is part of a nationwide program involving all 50 states and the District of Columbia.  Maine State winners may take part in the national competition at the University of Maryland in June.