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Every year on the weekend before Thanksgiving, thousands of high school students from around the country flock to the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to attend a program called Splash. Splash is an incredible opportunity to learn about countless subjects,...
Watch Waynflete's MEST-Up team of Julianna Harwood '15 and Stephen Epstein '15 take the FINAL step in defending Waynflete's championship. Tune in TONIGHT (Thursday, December 18) for the final episode of MEST-UP at 7:00pm. Wish them luck! MEST-Up is a television...
Registration for Waynflete's first ever adult education course, The Language of Social Class, has closed as the class is now full. We will consider offering other courses in the future. Stay tuned.
Whether we speak with careful word choice or speak in our casual register, our speech immediately connects us to specifics groups – those we call home, those we aspire to, those we eschew, those we’re grappled into by others. This course is...
What’s wrong with this picture? To the uninitiated, quite a bit. A teacher, David Neilan, is handing a rubber duck to a student, Dyer Rhoads. That seems weird. On top of that, there is another student in the background who...
Since graduating Waynflete in 2007, I have definitely been on a journey. I originally was accepted to my first choice college at the University of Vermont where I studied Jazz Performance for two years. In the midst of those years...
I graduated from Waynflete in 1989. At the time, my favourite subject was English. Classes like Creative Writing with Elizabeth Maiman and Essay with Ellie Dwight were where I discovered a talent for telling stories, and a way to explain...
Steve is in his first year at Waynflete, coming from Wilson High School in West Lawn, Pennsylvania. He earned an M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction and a B.S. in Secondary Education and a B.A. in Mathematics from Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. At Wilson HS,...
For the past four years, Waynflete’s athletic director, Ross Burdick, has taken on the leadership role in organizing the Student-Athlete Leadership Summit on behalf of the Western Maine Athletic Conference. Organizing an event for 136 student athletes from 18 different...
I have been talking with Mike and Sam for some time about creating some kind of comedy/talk show. Recently we decided to come together and make it happen. We decided on a late-night show format that would allow us to...
I’ve been using the Stock Market Game in my classes for about 15 years. I’ve used the game with economics classes, algebra classes, 6th grade math classes, finance classes, clubs, and with adults. I’ve seen one of my student teams...
It was another thrilling season for Flyer varsity teams on the fields, on the trails and on the links. The golf team had its best season ever, field hockey and girls soccer made the play-offs, boys soccer won the WMC...
More than enough people have already registered to take The Language of Social Class to ensure that Waynflete's first ever adult course is sure to run. The class, taught by Taffy Field and Phuc Tran, features a blended format, with both online...
On Sunday, October 26, 2014, I walked from my hotel room to the NafME Honors Ensembles Registration with the help of the handy Gaylord Opryland Hotel map. After having walked past the indoor jungle, up two escalators, and past three...
Waynflete's Mock Trial squad won its first round of competition last Saturday in impressive fashion. For Coach Curtis, some of the highlights were: Seeing Tiki Furo and Margaret Austin rooting for her squad from the jury box. Watching Acadia Weinberg...
The Upper School Ethical Leadership and Service Activity is sponsoring a donation drive for girls lacrosse gear that will be brought to Guatemala City as part of the Maya Lacrosse program, which organizes lacrosse programs for girls in six cities around Guatemala....
