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The Outliers robotics team recently capped off the 2025 season with an outstanding performance at the New England District Championships! Competing among 96 top teams from across the region, The Outliers finished qualification rounds in 3rd place—ranking 2nd in New...
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...
Our grade 11 African American History students recently visited the Bowdoin College Library to examine primary source documents from a critical moment in our nation's history. Students reviewed and analyzed testimonies given before Congress in 1871-72 from formerly enslaved Black...
The 2024–25 Waynflete math team followed their regular season Class D Championship win up with another impressive victory—this time at the state level! The team traveled to Augusta yesterday and captured their second championship of the season, winning the state...
This past weekend, the Outliers robotics team dominated at Vermont's first-ever district event! After finishing as the top team in qualification rounds, the Outliers selected alliance partners from Billerica and Sutton, MA, to form an unstoppable team that swept through...
The Outliers Robotics team recently competed against 30 teams from across New England at the Pine Tree event at the Lewiston Colisée. The squad showed steady and consistent improvement with each match, finishing the qualification rounds in 3rd place. The...
Our campus was buzzing with excitement recently as Waynflete welcomed 170 students from schools across Maine to the Maine Junior Classical League (MEJCL) Certamen competition. Due to the efforts of dedicated students, MEJCL officers, members of the Society for Classical...
After studying the nervous system, Anatomy and Physiology students dissected sheep brains last week, allowing them to see the relationship between structure and function. Did you know that most of the structures in a sheep's brain are highly homologous to...
Congratulations to the Outliers robotics team for an outstanding performance at the inaugural Southern Maine District Event at Falmouth High School this past weekend! The event marked the first time a district competition was held in Southern Maine, with 30...
In the spirit of International Women and Girls in Science Day, we asked a few students to share more about their passion for scientific exploration Eva Hankowski '26 shares her perspective on science's real-world impact: "Science [has] a tangible impact...
Last week, our Middle and Upper School students honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy through meaningful discussion and artistic expression. Upper School students welcomed Black Travel Maine founder Lisa Jones, retired educator and community leader Merita McKenzie, and artist...
Inspired by their work with Waynflete’s Can We? Project and partners at Narrative 4, Can We? students at Cape Elizabeth High School recently led a multigenerational story exchange for members of the community at Thomas Memorial Library. The story exchange...
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...
The Junior Classical League (JCL) at Waynflete explores the mythology, archaeology, and culture of ancient Mediterranean civilizations through a blend of modern technology and traditional learning. This club also participates in the Maine Junior Classical League’s (MEJCL) two annual conventions,...
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...
Project Story Boost is a literacy initiative that has been bringing Waynflete students and Reiche Community School kindergartners together since 2001. Upper School students visit Reiche on a weekly basis throughout the academic year to read with their kindergarten buddies....
Upper School faculty member and advisor Rhoen Fiutak, along with Waynflete trustee Cricket King P’26, recently joined students and faculty from Waynflete, Cape Elizabeth, Yarmouth, Gorham, and Windham high schools for a daylong Story Exchange facilitator training workshop, led by...
The Outliers robotics team recently traveled to New Hampshire to compete in the final robotics competition of the calendar year. The two-day competition wrapped up with the inaugural “Girls Behind the Glass” event that required all drive team members to...
You may have heard—it's Election Day! Liv Therrien ’25, Mia Haley ’26, and Gianna Barbieri ’25—who are all members of Youthwork Makes the Boothwork, an organization that aims to get young people involved by serving as poll workers—recently organized an...
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...
