The annual event at the Maine State Museum featured 24 presenters showing off live insects, pulling children away from computers, tablets and the internet.
Schools and Education
News about schools and education from the Portland Press Herald.
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For Waterville’s Mollie Pleau, the sky’s not the limit, it’s the destination
The recent Smith College graduate is moving on to Maxwell Air Force Base with the aim of becoming an astronaut.
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More programs give special attention to first-generation university students
USM and other schools recognize the newcomers need help navigating campus life and study demands, which are unlike anything the first-in-the-family students have known.
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Racist, homophobic graffiti found in building on Bowdoin campus
The graffiti, which included a swastika, was believed to have been left on a white board between midnight and 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.
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Eight students treated after being stung by insects on trail near South Portland school
Two of the students at Memorial Middle School are transported to Maine Medical Center after being stung by insects nesting in the ground.
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Bowdoin College buys home once marketed as place where ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ was written
The sale of 28 College St. ends a battle with a family who made disputed claims that author Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote parts of her famous novel in the house.
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Police have suspects in gun threat at Jay middle school
Regional School District 73 Superintendent Kenneth Healey says authorities concluded the threat was a hoax.
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Bowdoin receives $10 million donation for Coastal Studies Center
The gift, from a senior vice president at Apple, will go for new facilities at the center on Orr’s Island.
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UMaine Augusta’s new drone course training aces for a growing industry
Drones are currently being used in real estate, precision agriculture, search and rescue, land management and construction.
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After 3 votes, Scarborough finally has a school budget
Fifty-three percent of voters approve a 2.9 percent spending increase in the 2017-18 school budget.