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Tenth-grade students recently participated in a community service morning at Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth and Payson Park in Portland. Students continued the volunteer work started recently by their ninth-grade peers and contributed approximately 130 hours of invasive species removal...

Waynflete juniors recently spent the morning with Bowdoin librarian Barbara Levergood, who facilitated an activity for them to examine original documents from the Reconstruction Era. These primary sources were from the 1871–72 Congressional Hearings on the investigation into the Ku Klux Klan...

The entire ninth-grade class participated in community service yesterday as part of the school's annual Community Engagement Challenge. Two groups boarded buses in the morning to head to Fort Williams and Payson Park to remove invasive species for our longtime partners Friends of Fort Williams Park and Portland Parks Conservancy. The class donated approximately 100 hours...

Ten Upper School students recently competed in the Maine Science Bowl—a quiz game-type competition sponsored by the Department of Energy. Question categories include physics, math, chemistry, biology, energy, and Earth and space science. Waynflete’s two teams performed well during the...

Congratulations to the Outliers Robotics team for their recent victory at the NE District Granite State Event. They partnered with teams from Windham, NH and Lewiston, ME, and went undefeated in the playoffs—finishing only five points away from the world...

Fifteen Upper School science students traveled to Brown University recently for an invitational Science Olympiad Tournament. Students competed with schools from across the country in 23 different science and engineering events, which ranged from building items like an electronic sensor...