Articles Categorized: Upper School

MEST-Up Team Advances to the Finals

Waynflete's MEST-Up Team of Sophie Benson '14 and Al Ghorashi '15 defeated the Cape Elizabeth High School team in the quarter finals and Camden High School in the semi-finals to advance to the final round of the Math, Engineering, Science, and...

Microplastics in the Ocean Presentation

Addie Arrives

Ocean Microplastics

[caption id="attachment_1601" align="alignleft" width="300"] The miniscule size of plastic particles[/caption] This past Tuesday evening a wonderful Ocean Conservationist came to Waynflete, by the name of Dr. Kara Lavender Law, to discuss ocean plastics. The main point of her argument was...

Incognito Revisited: A Student’s Perspective

The following review first appeared several weeks ago in The Flyer, the Upper School student newspaper.  Here is the link to the story on Incognito that was previously posted on USNOW. The one man show by Michael Fosberg titled, Incognito,...

MEST-Up Back in Action

Waynflete's Mest-Up science game show team of Ali Ghorashi '15 and Sophie Benson '14 will be back in action this Thursday, April 17.  The show airs at 7 PM on WXPT (channel 12).   Here is a link to the past...

Spirit Week Countdown

A Spirit Week Log Through the Eyes of a Ninth Grader Two Weeks Before: I don't really know what spirit week is going to be all about, but I heard it's going to be really fun! They are going to...

The Math Team: Year in Retrospect

On Tuesday, April 8th, the ten “mathletes” of the Waynflete Math Team made an early morning trek to Bangor to check out the new Cross Insurance Center as well as to participate in the 2014 State Math Meet .  Despite...

Sylvan St. John Arrives

A Private School, A Public Purpose

As stated in the School's mission, Waynflete intends to encourage in our students "responsible and caring participation in the world." On Tuesday evening, April 8, a key method of doing so was on display: Institutional Modeling. You might be wondering...

Three Students’ Artwork on Display

Three upper school students artists - Quinn Shivel, Sarah Avery and Maeve Donnelly - are currently represented in a gallery exhibit of Maine High School Ceramics Art students at the Gannet Gallery, 331 Water Street, in downtown Augusta, from April 9-26....

Mock Admissions Committee Event for Junior Parents

The College Counseling Office invites Junior Parents to participate in Waynflete’s third annual Mock Admissions Committee program on Tuesday, April 29, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in Franklin Theater. Parents will simulate the committee process by reviewing and discussing several case study applications before making...

Nyirikamba and Harvey Named Forecaster Winter Athletes

 

On to the Science Olympiad Nationals!

“I’m more nervous right now than I am before a basketball game!” said varsity starter Julianna Harwood as she waited to test the boomilever she had built for the recent State Science Olympiad Tournament at the University of Maine in...

Not quite on the water yet

The Maputo Project

Fifteen years ago, Band Director Ray Morrow invited former jazz students to join the current band to play Maputo for an Upper School Assembly while projecting the video live on the old theater wall.  This year he repeated the Maputo...

On My Home Stage

I am Vanessa Van Deusen, a senior here at Waynflete, and I am a ballerina. I started ballet when I was a kid, as most little girls do, but for me it was an obsession rather than a passing phase....

Grade Advising Day: An Annual Event at Waynflete

Grade Advising Day has been going on for more than 20 years and is important for students of all grades. Ninth Grade Seminar teacher Cathie Connors, who has always been involved with the freshman group, says Grade Advising Day is...

Poet Laureate Emily Wasserman Leads US Poetry Assembly

An Inspiring Lunch with Dr. Sima Samar

Under the rule of the Taliban, Afghanistan went through a tremendous change. The Taliban had immense impact on the society as they gained more power. With the regulations that were established, numerous people felt the aftermath in their daily lives....

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