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Maine Island Scholarship Program celebrates 20 years
Over the past two decades, there have been approximately 650 awards equaling $730,000 in scholarship support to island students. Students that received special awards this year include: Arthur Govoni of Islesboro received the Academic and Community Leadership Scholarship, given to a graduating senior who exemplifies a combination of academic excellence and community leadership. Arianna Stefanilo
Maine Island Scholarship Program celebrates 20 years
Ask any islander what the Island Institute provides and they might say “Don’t they give kids college scholarships?” It’s true. The Island Institute has been awarding college scholarships for 20 years. The program began in 1990, with a total of $2,000 in scholarship awards. This year the program awarded more than $90,000 in scholarships to
Over 120 attend Island Institute’s teacher’s conference
The very first Island Teachers Conference took place on North Haven in 1985. Ten attendees from that very first conference were back for this year’s event. This year’s Island Teacher Conference was extremely well attended with over 120 island teachers, administrators, educational technicians and school board members. It was held on October 8 and 9
Cutting-edge technology comes to Maine island schools
Have you ever wished you could teleport somewhere new and exciting? If only real life were to catch up with “Star Trek” imagine how much more convenient our lives would be. The island schools of Frenchboro, Swans, Islesford, Matinicus, Monhegan, and Isle au Haut have been experimenting with a new technology that has catapulted their
CREST summer program doubles in size
The Island Institute’s 3rd Community for Rural Education, Stewardship, and Technology (CREST) Summer Institute was bigger and better than ever! CREST doubled in size this year to include 96 6th -12th grade students and 55 teachers from 16 island and isolated coastal schools. The schools that sent students included Deer Isle Stonington Elementary and High
Google group brings island teachers together
Teaching is an extremely difficult job no matter where one lives, but the role is far more demanding when combined with life in an isolated community where one is sometimes the only teacher in the school. During the 2007 Island Teachers Conference in Belfast, one request came up in conversations over and over: “We just
“Girl Power Across the Islands Day” planned for Dec. 20
During the past school year more than 40 middle school island girls in Maine embarked on a new kind of adventure: Zoey’s Room, an online community designed specifically for girls between the ages of 9 and 14. Zoey’s Room (www.zoeysroom.com) is an online community with the goal of encouraging girls’ creativity through science, technology, engineering
Winter Harbor hosts summer technology institutes
In late July and early August, 85 students and teachers from Maine’s year-round islands and remote coastal communities explored fundamental information technology and database-management skills at the Island Institute’s second annual Community for Rural Education, Stewardship, and Technology (CREST) Summer Institutes. Designed to provide high-level technology training in an intensive residential format, each of the
Institute offers scholarships for 2007-2008
The Island Institute has announced that it will award at least $60,000 worth of Maine Island Higher Education postsecondary scholarships for the 2007-2008 school year. These scholarships offer financial assistance to residents of Maine’s 14 unbridged island communities. The Institute will offer awards ranging from $250 to $5,000 to support individuals pursuing postsecondary education at
Post-secondary scholarships awarded
The winner of the $5,000 2006 Maine Island Partners Scholarship is Benjamin Lovell of North Haven. He is a senior at North Haven Community School. The scholarship is awarded to an individual who combines civic leadership, community involvement and academic achievement. Lovell is an outstanding scholar who has taken a lead role in North Haven’s