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Schools

Bangor Showcase

BANGOR – Bangor High School will hold its annual Showcase 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, at the school. Student presentations and activities will take place throughout the building. Excerpts from “Les Miserables” will follow in Peakes Auditorium.

Highlights of the evening include:

. Telescope and astrophotography demonstration in the new observatory.

. Chinese landscape garden art display.

. Demonstration of how food helps to solve problems in calculus.

. Earthquake tower simulation and testing demonstration; National Science Foundation sensors demonstration with students and UMaine graduate fellows.

. JROTC drill team and color guard demonstrations.

. Music performances.

. Student artwork displays.

. Cultural trivia contest.

. English and creative writing presentations and displays.

. United Technology Center robotics display.

. Economics class stock market game.

. The Colorado River and Three Gorges Dam: A Comparison of Two Development Projects.

. Special program displays.

. Physical education video presentation.

The event is open to the public. Current and incoming students and their parents are encouraged to attend.

BSO Youth Concerts

ORONO – Nearly 4,000 youngsters attended three youth concerts presented by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra March 10 at the Maine Center for the Arts at the University of Maine.

The pupils heard works by Mozart and Mussorgsky, as well as Henry Mancini’s “Pink Panther” and Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever.”

Participating were: Abraham Lincoln School, Downeast School, Fairmount School, Fourteenth Street School, Fruit Street School, Mary Snow School and Vine Street School, Bangor; Bangor Christian School; Calvary Chapel School, Orrington; Etna-Dixmont School; Weatherbee School, Hampden; Hermon Elementary School; Levant Elementary School; Lewis Libby School, Milford; Newburgh Elementary School; Asa Adams School, Orono; Center Drive School, Orrington; Stillwater Montessori School; Stillwater Christian School; Smith School, Winterport.

Hermon Elementary School

HERMON – On March 10, 197 Hermon Elementary School pupils participated in their annual Jump Rope for the Heart event. The students raised $6,985.00 for the American Heart Association.

Deb Aucoin, the schools physical education teacher, introduced the program to Hermon in 1990. Since then, she said, pupils have raised $75,000 for the cause.

Jump Rope for the Heart is an event held through the American Heart Association and the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The activities rely on physical education programs throughout the United States to incorporate the program into its curriculums.

Colleges

EMTC

BANGOR – Eastern Maine Technical College and local engineers, contractors and construction companies are working together to establish a civil engineering degree program to begin this fall. A steering team, with representation from local companies was formed to evaluate the need for the program.

“The college is responding to the need for a two-year civil engineering degree by implementing this program,” said Joyce Hedlund, EMTC president. The program, she said, is considered one of the ‘hot’ career programs for the state of Maine.

The new program is designed to prepare students for employment as civil engineering technicians who will assist in the planning, design and construction of highways, transportation systems, buildings, land development, residential and commercial complexes and a variety of other related projects and activities.

Students will be exposed to a wide range of technologies while preparing for jobs in industry. Through individual instruction, which stresses industrial standards and techniques, the student acquires technical proficiency, strong work habits, critical thinking skills and current computer-aided drafting and design software training.

Students successfully completing the program at EMTC, Hedlund said, will receive a solid technical education in construction engineering theory, global positioning systems, surveying and computer-aided drafting and design.

For information, call the Enrollment Center at EMTC at 974-4621 or (800) 286-9357, Ext. 4621.

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Eastern Maine Technical College students Melissa Nute of Hermon and Tina Gagnon of Bangor have been named to the 2003 Maine All-State Academic Team. They will receive $500 scholarships from KeyBank.

The academic team program recognizes college students who have achieved academic distinction.

The state teams are a division of the Academic All-USA Team for community and technical college students, a program sponsored annually by Phi Theta Kappa, USA Today and the American Association of Community Colleges.

James Madison University

HARRISONBURG, Va. – Benjamin Franklin Polk of Greenbush has been named to the president’s list for the fall semester at James Madison University.

Middlebury College

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Christopher Shubert, son of Dennis and Jane Resseguie Shubert of Bangor; and Michael McCarthy, son of James and Martha McCarthy of Hampden, have been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Middlebury College.

University of Maine at Farmington

FARMINGTON – Michael Case, Erin Lancaster and Hayley Wright, all of Bangor; Theresa McGuire of Dedham; Justin Groshon and Jennifer Tripp, both of Hampden; Jamie Beam and Kendall Curtis, both of Levant; Gregory Ballard and Sarah Colson, both of Newburgh; and Sarah Winslow of Orrington have been named to the Academic Achievement list for the fall semester at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Wheaton College

NORTON, Mass. – Rachel Rubin and Molly Wiebe, both of Bangor; and Gretchen Gavett of Orono have been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Wheaton College.