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Hundreds of students and educators gathered for a remarkable day for connection and dialogue at Waynflete's ninth annual New England Youth Identity Summit on Saturday. The event featured powerful student-led workshops and presentations, moving musical performances, and beautiful poetry that...

More than 240 students from 14 Maine high schools gathered at the Augusta Civic Center yesterday for the Can We? Project's annual Can We? Connect conference. As the second of three retreats during the school year, Can We? Connect included...

Upper School students recently participated in the first of three day-long Can We? Project retreats that provide opportunities to practice engaging in dialogue across political and other differences. The day included activities that focused on listening, inquiry, empathy, and perspective...

Forty-two talented cast and crew members took Franklin Theater by storm this weekend, performing their incredible production of Mean Girls for three packed houses. The show was filled with passionate performances, creativity, joy, and laughter. Thank you to all those...

On May 20, eleven Upper School students competed in the National Science Olympiad tournament at Wichita State University in Kansas. The team earned their spot at the tournament by winning the Maine State Science Olympiad tournament in April. Sixty teams...

Congratulations to The Outliers robotics team for an impressive third place finish in their division at the FIRST Championship, an international robotics competition with more than 650 teams participating from 26 countries! The team also won the Innovation in Control...

Another incredible year for the New England Youth Identity Summit! About 300 participants from almost 50 schools/organizations (in seven states!) came together on Saturday for a full-day program that featured inspiring speakers, student-led workshops, dialogue sessions, and performances. Thank you...

The keynote speaker for the New England Youth Identity Summit on April 1 is Marpheen Chann—an author, writer, thinker, advocate, and speaker on social justice, equity, and inclusion. As a gay, first-generation Asian American born in California to a Cambodian...

Congratulations, Flyers! Waynflete took fifth place at the Maine Junior Classical League (MEJCL) this year. MEJCL is a friendly academic competition between schools in Maine that teach Latin. On December 2, Waynflete students competed Hampden Academy to participate for the...

The Perspective Project, an Upper School student-led organization committed to starting discussions and bringing new perspectives to Waynflete, recently welcomed newly reelected Portland City Councilor Pious Ali as its first guest speaker of the year. Mr. Ali was first elected...