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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...
On May 20, eleven Upper School students competed in the National Science Olympiad tournament at Wichita State University in Kansas. The team earned their spot at the tournament by winning the Maine State Science Olympiad tournament in April. Sixty teams...
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...
Congratulations to The Outliers robotics team for an impressive third place finish in their division at the FIRST Championship, an international robotics competition with more than 650 teams participating from 26 countries! The team also won the Innovation in Control...
K–1 students recently helped the Linear Algebra and Advanced Topics class complete an activity on fractals. The specific fractal pictured here is called a Sierpinski Carpet and is a repeating, decreasing pattern of empty central squares. The Linear Algebra students...
Congratulations to our Upper and Middle School teams on their impressive wins at the Maine Science Olympiad tournament this past weekend! Waynflete's two Upper School teams, captained by seniors Maren Cooper '23 and Reed Robinson '23, earned top three finishes...
Another incredible year for the New England Youth Identity Summit! About 300 participants from almost 50 schools/organizations (in seven states!) came together on Saturday for a full-day program that featured inspiring speakers, student-led workshops, dialogue sessions, and performances. Thank you...
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...
The keynote speaker for the New England Youth Identity Summit on April 1 is Marpheen Chann—an author, writer, thinker, advocate, and speaker on social justice, equity, and inclusion. As a gay, first-generation Asian American born in California to a Cambodian...
Congratulations to the Speech and Debate team on their impressive showing in Massachusetts this past weekend! Our four-person team competed against sixteen other schools in three rounds of Parliamentary Debate and ultimately finished in second place. Great job, Flyers!
Last week at Waynflete was a musical one! We had two lovely recitals on Wednesday that featured students in grades 2–11 who take private lessons with our outstanding Enrichment Music teachers. On Thursday, 70 musicians from five different ensembles (Acoustic...
Students from Maine independent schools gathered at the State House today to connect with representatives. Waynflete seniors are pictured standing with the Speaker of the House, Waynflete alumna Rachel Talbot Ross '78.
“The skills students develop doing debate—organizing their thoughts, learning how to present, and arguing a perspective that might be different from their own—are essential building blocks to being a citizen of the world,” says Head of School Geoff Wagg. We...
As students in Physics Intensive learn about momentum and collisions, one of the primary goals is to understand how to minimize the forces experienced in a collision. To better understand the principles involved, students were given the task of designing...
The SpongeBob Musical takes us on a journey to the colorful world of "Bikini Bottom" where we find SpongeBob Squarepants, Patrick Star, and Sandy Cheeks bravely trying to save their beloved underwater realm from certain destruction! Our Upper School students...
Congratulations to Max Polsky '23 who recently performed as a part of the Jazz All-State ensemble at Bangor High School. This nine-person ensemble spent three days rehearsing and learning about improvisation and jazz history.
Read the latest issue of the The Wombat from the Waynflete Writers' Guild! Owl artwork: Anna Siegel '24
