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Math teachers Cathy Douglas and Rhoen Fiutak recently gave a quiz on systems of equations in Algebra 1 Accelerated—in the form of a scavenger hunt! Students had to solve systems of equations to find the coordinates of locations where clues...
Tell us about your college experience and career trajectory. I majored in Anthropology and International Studies with a concentration in Economics at Bryn Mawr College. After graduating, I received a Fulbright grant and spent a year in Indonesia teaching English...
14 Middle and Upper School recently attended the Maine Junior Classical League Fall Convention at Hampden Academy. Latin students from around the state gather at this annual event for an evening of academic competition, camaraderie, and spirited celebration of their...
The Outliers robotics team closed out the 2025 season with an impressive finish at the Battle of the Bay in New Hampshire, going undefeated against some of the best teams from across New England. In the finals, they posted the...
The Perspective Project recently welcomed the first guest speaker of the 2025–26 academic year, Angela Stone of Maine Needs, to campus to speak with students about her experience starting and growing the organization. The conversation was led by the student...
Waynflete recently hosted teams of students from 37 schools and six countries at the four-day International Independent School Public Speaking Competition, which has run since 1982. Students competed in two rounds of three different speech or debate events, and members...
Tell us about your college experience and career trajectory. I went to Bentley University, which is a business-focused school, and majored in economics. I chose economics largely because I was at Waynflete during the 2008 financial crisis. Watching the global...
A stormy end to the week didn't deter more than 300 students and educators from attending Waynflete’s eighth annual New England Youth Identity Summit on Saturday. More than 31 student-run workshops were on offer, on topics ranging from climate justice...
Fifteen Upper School science students traveled to MIT on January 20 for an invitational Science Olympiad tournament. Students competed with schools from across the country in 23 different science and engineering events. Some events required students to design, build, and...
Waynflete's Third Thought for Civic Engagement initiative recently hosted "Can We? Connect," a full-day conference at the Augusta Civic Center for high school students from fourteen partner schools in Maine who are participating in The Can We? Project this year....
Eighth-graders participated in a community service project at Crescent Beach State Park during the first semester. Students collected more than 1,100 pieces of trash and cataloged their findings in Maine's state scientific report about ocean pollution. In their Visual Arts...
Waynflete has received a $50,000 grant from Unum to support The Can We? Project, one of several initiatives run by the school’s Third Thought Institute for Civic Engagement program. Grant funds will be provided over a two-year period. The Can...
Despite all its harm, the COVID-19 pandemic drove many school administrators and teachers to explore new opportunities for pedagogical innovation. At Waynflete, Middle School Director Divya Muralidhara sought out fresh ideas to make the school’s grades 6–8 program more interdisciplinary,...
“The skills students develop doing debate—organizing their thoughts, learning how to present, and arguing a perspective that might be different from their own—are essential building blocks to being a citizen of the world,” says Head of School Geoff Wagg. We...
Read the latest issue of the The Wombat from the Waynflete Writers' Guild! Owl artwork: Anna Siegel '24
Anti-bias teaching has long been an essential component of Waynflete’s curriculum. Faculty member Kate Ziminsky recalls that when she began her tenure at the school in 2004, organizations like Teaching Tolerance were already hard at work helping teachers address justice...
On November 3, nine Waynflete students joined nearly 1,000 of their peers from across the state for the annual Maine Youth Leadership Day hosted by Hyde School in Bath. Grounded in “the importance of what it takes to be a...
As a result of their collaboration with the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (with NASA as a partner), Waynflete students have provisionally identified five new asteroids over the years! The latest to shift from preliminary to provisional status had been identified...
Congratulations to Jasmijn Janse '24, Miles Sims-Kastelein-Henry '24, and Aelia Russell '24 for representing Waynflete beautifully at the recent International Independent School Public Speaking Championships at Deerfield Academy! After participating in debates in six rounds of competition, Aelia placed 4th...
As part of their study of archaeology in history class, sixth-graders recently visited with archaeologist Thomas Bennett at the Prince Memorial Library and Broad Cove Reserve in Cumberland to learn about shell middens. At the library, students helped contribute to...
