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Every spring, seniors leave campus in early May and spend four weeks pursuing a subject of personal interest. This Senior Project month is a fondly remembered time that opens students' eyes to new interests as they prepare to enter college....
According to the Urban Dictionary, a "chamber of commerce day" is a day with gorgeous weather when a region would want tourists to visit, such that it might make companies feel that they should relocate to the area. The on-line...
Entering Waynflete as a new junior in 2014, Liam McNiff didn’t expect to befriend someone whose hometown was 10,000 miles away. Sam, who hailed from Australia, was spending the year at Waynflete as a visiting ASSIST scholar. (more…)
Earlier this month, I found myself standing in front of nearly 200 students from all around New England, explaining the benefits of limestone chimney scrubbers. What on Earth have I gotten myself into?! I thought to myself, as hundreds of...
Waynflete's Ultimate Frisbee team debuted this spring in the Maine High School Ultimate League. Ultimate is a fast-moving, 7-player game that is a little like soccer or football with a frisbee. Ultimate employs a "Spirit of the Game" ethos that...
Junior Matt Beard ’19 recently visited with K-1 students to teach them all about lobstering. The kids had lots of questions: How do you make sure the lobsters don't get out of the top of the trap? How do you...
After winning the state Science Olympiad competition, 15 students traveled to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, for the national tournament. Students competed in 23 science and engineering events against schools from all 50 states. Waynflete's team is coached...
The Waynflete Writers’ Guild has been around for a number of years as a place for students to meet, have fun, and share their writings. This year’s guild has taken on the ambitious goal of publishing student written and visual...
Katrina St. John's homeroom collaborated with MITA (Maine Island Trail Association) and spent the school day collecting trash from the shoreline of Merritt Island located in the New Meadows. MITA has a handshake agreement with landowners up and down the...
Waynflete recently welcomed Mexican folk artists Efraín Fuentes and Silvia Gomez to campus. They spent the day demonstrating their craft and sharing their family story with students in Grades K-12, faculty, staff, and community members. It was a great opportunity to observe this...
Hope McSherry '21 was selected to perform in a staged reading of a new play, Callie Kimball's Dreams of The Penny Gods, at the Maine Playwright's Festival last week. The reading was directed by Daniel Burson. Hope gave a sensitive, funny,...
The Community Service Award is given to a junior or senior who completes over 50 hours of community service. The citation reads as follows: Caring participation in the community is a core value at Waynflete. We believe such engagement promotes...
Seniors (pictured above): Callie Banksmith Claire Dubois Sophie Good Nick Hagler Leeza Kopaeva Shuhao Liu Molly McNutt Dorothea Pinchbeck Charlotte Rhoads Luna Soley Sara Wasdahl Genevieve Welch Nicholas Wagg (more…)
Dana Hirschhorn ’18 was presented with an appointment certificate to the United States Naval Academy (USNA) at Upper School assembly this week. She will begin a four-year course of study at the Annapolis, Maryland-based institution in the fall. Dana was...
Both of Waynflete's ExMASS research groups—lunar and asteroid—have made it through to the national finals! The students will present online to a panel of scientist judges on Friday, May 4. Winning teams earn an all-expenses-paid trip to the NASA Ames...
“What is one step that schools can take to prevent bullying?” “Awareness.” This question and our corresponding answer set into action of chain of events last year in the championship game of the Maine State LifeSmarts Competition that were unfortunate...
After winning the state event, Waynflete represented Maine at the national LifeSmarts competition in San Diego last week. Lydia Giguere, Nick Jenkins (captain), Leeza Kopaeva, Ben Lualdi, and Nick Wagg finished in an impressive 7th place. LifeSmarts is a consumer...
Congratulations to Tabarak Al-Musawi, who placed third at the Lion's Club state Speak Out competition! Click here to read Tabarak’s speech
Middle and Upper School Latin teacher Phuc Tran weighs in on MPBN's "Maine Calling!" Listen to the Maine Calling segment Watch Phuc's TEDxDirigo talk: Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive Top photo credit: http://bit.ly/2r0kfCf
Waynflete encourages high schoolers from across Maine to join with students from seven Maine schools as they engage candidates for governor in dialogue about bringing their vision for a better Maine and a better nation into reality. Topics will range...
