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Schools

Bangor High School

The All Sports Booster Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, May 13, in the Bangor High School ROTC room. All parents are invited to attend.

For information, call 947-8565.

Brewer High School

Competing against nearly 7,800 school winners from the United States, Brewer High School senior Christopher Sighinolfi has won a national Principal’s Leadership Award scholarship.

Jerry Goss, Brewer High principal, announced the award, which includes a $1,000 college scholarship. The National Association of Secondary School Principals and Herff Jones Inc. presented 150 such awards during National Student Leadership Week, April 21-27.

Nominees were selected based on leadership skills, participation in service organizations and clubs, achievements in the arts and sciences, employment experience and academic record. They also were required to write an essay.

Sighinolfi has been a member of National Honor Society, Se Beowulf and Key Club; president of the Student Council and his class; and captain of the swimming team. He plans to attend the University of Pennsylvania and study business.

Hampden Academy

Hampden Academy’s mock trial team, which defeated Cape Elizabeth High School in the state finals, is headed to St. Paul, Minn., for the National High School Mock Trial Championship May 9-12. Forty-four teams from the United States, Guam and the Mariana Islands will participate.

The Maine tournament is sponsored by the Maine State Bar Association and coordinated by Maine Law and Civics Education, a UMaine Law School program. Twenty-five high schools fielded 400 students in the competition and 70 volunteer attorneys and judges participated.

The case to be argued at nationals is based on the 1975 wreck of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald.

Members of the HA team are seniors Cathy Boucher, Mike Wood, Brendan Morrell and Samantha Kingsbury; juniors MacKenzie Rawcliff, Oriana Farley, Jarred Brown and Josh Jenkins; sophomore Chris Woodcock; and freshmen Lauren Hartz, John White, Jennifer Swalec, Scott Simpson and Amy Dumont. Michelle Gross is the teacher-coach. John Woodcock, William Devoe and James McCarthy are the volunteer attorney coaches.

Weatherbee School

HAMPDEN – A team of seven fourth-graders from Weatherbee School will attend the global competition of Destination ImagiNation May 22 in Knoxville, Tenn.

Brendan Dickenson, Renee Butler, Lindsay Beauregard, Christina Fortin, Melissa Hoksch, Lindsay Thornton and Becky Ye have been meeting twice a week since October to generate a solution to the problem Dual Dilemma.

Their solution has several parts, beginning with prebuilding a structure of balsa wood, glue and paper. At the competition, they created in less than 30 minutes a similar structure of balsa wood and duct tape, tested to hold up to 300 pounds.

They also performed a humorous two-part skit an 8-minute period – while testing the strength of the two structures. The team placed first statewide in its problem category with a score of 389.94 out of 400 points, and next will take its solution to the global tournament at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville on May 22.

First, the team must raise $14,000 in four weeks. Fund-raisers include: “Pamper Your Mom” ice cream social, 6:30 p.m. May 10, at the Weatherbee School gym; Oriental Jade buffet, 5:15 and 6:30 p.m. May 13; raffle ticket sales at the Hampden Academy Children’s Fair and Yard Sale, 9 a.m.-noon, Saturday, May 18; and a silent auction and ice cream social at 6:30 p.m. May 31, at the Weatherbee gym.

In addition, pupils are selling Mother’s Day carnations, collecting bottles, having a bowl-a-thon, and putting out jars to collect donations. Contributors are Pepsi Cola, Bangor Daily News, Dawson-Bradford Real Estate, Penobscot Valley Country Club, Blue Hill Pyrotechnics, Old Town Canoe, Shop ‘n Save, and Best Buy. For information, call 862-4088.

A team from Bangor’s Mary Snow School also will be in the global competition.

Civic oration contest

BANGOR – Students demonstrated their English and oratorical skills in the Modern Woodmen of America District 1 Civic Oration Contest. Entrants competing in the district competition have already been successful in their schools’ contests. This year’s topic is “What Makes the USA Great?”

District 1 winner was eighth-grader Micah Dougherty from Bangor Christian School. Second-place winner was eighth-grader Kalyn Doten from Bangor Christian. Third-place winner was eighth-grader Mary Kate Donovan of Veazie Community School.

UMaine summer art camp

ORONO – This June, children may travel around the world, from city to city, through art, games and activities while creating “masterpieces” with a variety of materials including paint, photos and clay.

The opportunity is available through the University of Maine Art Museum’s summer art camp. The camp offers an arts-based curriculum fostering self-expression, creative and critical thinking, with daily art gallery visits.

The summer art camp is open to children ages 6-12. Sessions will be held at UMaine’s Carnegie Hall 8:30-11:30 a.m. Monday-Friday, June 24-28. Tuition is $110 per child and includes materials. Camp Bangor Scholarships are accepted. Friends of the Museum receive a 10 percent discount.

For information, call 581-3255.

Maine Discovery Museum

BANGOR – Several programs have been scheduled at the Maine Discovery Museum. Unless otherwise noted, programs are included with the price of admission.

. Guest artist Lesia Sochor will hold a workshop, drop-in art projects, and a display of her unique frog paintings 10 a.m.-noon and 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11.

. Puzzles! Paper puzzles, wooden puzzles, puzzles in two dimensions or three will be offered 1-3 p.m. Sunday, May 19. Meet Rick Eason, who will show some of the thousands of puzzles he makes and collects. There will be puzzling activities for all ages to try.

Programs are subject to change. Visitors are encouraged to call in advance on the day of the event to confirm. For information about these and other museum events, call the museum office at 262-7200.

Maine School of Science & Mathematics

CANTON, Mass. – The New England Association of Mathematics Leagues held its annual championships May 2. Top-scoring schools from throughout New England were invited to participate in one of three divisions.

Maine School of Science & Mathematics team members Cristina Domnisoru of Old Town, Nunzio Thron of Kittery Point, Boyko Kakaradov, Joe Lim of Korea, Ben Heller of Newcastle, and Giovanna Thron of Kittery Point took top honors in the small school category, in which 14 schools competed.

Colleges

Sigma Theta Tau

BANGOR – Omicron-Xi-At-Large Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International conducted its fifth induction of members at Husson College April 28.

Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing was founded in 1922. The community of 120,000 active members shares scholarly success, clinical experiences and personal integrity through a network of chapters on 500 college and university campuses in more than 94 countries.

Membership is by invitation to baccalaureate and graduate nursing students who demonstrate excellence in scholarship, and to nurse leaders exhibiting exceptional achievements in nursing.

Inductees from the University of Maine are: Steven Albert, Susan Cullen, Erin Dailey, Rebecca Dodson, Ronald Dodson, Lisa Estey, Patricia Gauthier, Susan Gurney, Claudia Luchini, Gwen Marquis, Jessica McConville, Jennifer McKenney and Tracy Nelson.

Inductees from the Husson College Nursing Program are: Jouhayna Bajjani, Marjorie Baker, Claudine Baranek, Kathleen Calligan, Melissa Canwell, Joanna Cates, Twila Damon, Michelle Doucette, Lisa Jacobs, Erin Kenney, Stephanie Lanham, Heather McFarin, Young Nam, Diane Ouellette, Eric Perkins, Michelle Perkins, Wendy Perkins, Ellen Pileski, Heather Scripture, Leslie Taylor, Lynette Wagner, Pamela Pellon-Irwin, Joyce Petrosky, Erica Pike and Hyun Ae Yu.

Community nurse leaders inducted are: Rebecca Bell, Tina Gist, Sylvia Ingerson, Deborah Carey Johnson, Elizabeth Pelissier and Leslie Peterson.

Orienteering Maine

ORONO – Orienteering Maine, one of the nation’s fastest growing orienteering clubs, invites the public to join its members at its next event Saturday, May 11, at the University of Maine.

The event, open to everyone, will start and finish at the University Field House. Participants will receive basic map and compass instruction necessary to get started in the sport of orienteering.

Newcomers to the sport may choose from two courses – a traditional one with visiting designated control points in a specific order, set in Demeritt Forest South, or a score-orienteering course, visiting as many control points as possible in a given time.

Experienced orienteers, and newcomers familiar with using maps in the wilderness, may select the Advanced Beginners or the Short Advanced course, both also set in Demeritt Forest.

Participants should arrive at the University Field House any time between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Experienced members of Orienteering Maine, including a former member of the U.S. Ski-Orienteering Team, will be on hand to help with skills and to answer questions.

There is a nominal charge of $4 for adults, $3 for those 17 and under, with a $12 family maximum, to take part in the event.

There will be signs directing participants to the event, with parking near the football stadium. Directions and information may be found at the Web site www.spatial.maine.edu/~hendrick/Orienteering/UMaine Meet.htm. Those without Internet access may contact event organizer Mike Hendricks at 581-3688 or by e-mail at hendrick@spatial.maine.edu.

For information, call 359-8900 or e-mail anned@hypernet.com. More information may be found at www.us.orienteering.org.

University of Vermont

BURLINGTON, Vt. – Jill Marie Husson of Bangor was inducted to the University of Vermont Mortar Board during an initiation ceremony April 7.

Mortar Board is a national honor society for college seniors. Although membership comes as a high honor for UVM students in recognition of outstanding service, scholarship and leadership, it is also a challenge for continued, unselfish service in the best interests of the college campus.

Franklin Pierce College

RINDGE, N.H. – Thomas Waterman, a freshman at Franklin Pierce College, was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2001 term.

Waterman, of Bangor, is a mathematics major.

Northeastern University

BOSTON – Northeastern University has named the following students to the dean’s list for the winter quarter: Matthew Brown of Glenburn, Warren Hedstrom Jr. and Matthew Pare of Orono, and Kathryn Hunter and David Souweine of Bangor.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

WORCESTER, Mass. – Worcester Polytechnic Institute senior Joseph Knuble, 22, a graduate of Brewer High School, was part of a team of three students who spent 10 weeks working to solve the problem of how to monitor laboratory rats’ neurological responses to drugs.

Knuble, an electrical engineering major, drew a picture of a rat attached to electrodes as he described working on a wireless transmitter system for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

The drawing showed a rat with an electrical cable emerging from its head. The goal was to replace the cable attached to the rat’s brain with a wireless system.

Knuble’s stay at the NASA facility culminated in more than the successful design of a wireless transmission system. The project satisfied WPI’s graduation requirements.

In addition, Knuble accepted an offer to work for Goddard’s microwave instrument technology branch when he graduates in May.

Participants in the program at Goddard “concentrate exclusively on their projects while they are here,” said Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, a NASA research engineer who served as the project’s mentor. “They are in the lab 10 to 12 hours a day working their tails off.”

Knuble, the son of Vits and Mary Knuble, described himself as “half nervous that I’m finally leaving after months of education and half excited about working at the most interesting place in the word.”