Fryeburg Academy Recognizes Outstanding Fall Student-Athletes

List of 5 news stories.

• Fryeburg Academy Maine Junior Classical League Fall Convention Results

  Fryeburg Academy finished 6th place at the Maine Junior Classical League on November 10, 2020. The 12 student delegates from the Academy participated via Zoom in the following categories: General Assemblies, Roll Call, Academic Testing, Scavenger Hunt, Trick Shot Contest, Spirit, Art and Photography, Certamen, and Latin Among Us (Apud Nos).
  
  

• Fryeburg Academy Recognizes Outstanding Fall Student-Athletes

  Due to the pandemic, Fryeburg Academy’s Fall Sports Awards Night was held virtually on Wednesday, November 11. Student-athletes, however, were invited to receive their awards in-person.  Fryeburg Academy recognized the following student-athletes at the event:

• Seniors Named College Board National Recognition Scholars

  Five Fryeburg Academy seniors have been named College Board National Recognition Scholars,  scoring in the top 2.5% of  2019 PSAT/NMSQT test takers and identifying as one or more of the following: African American, Hispanic American, Latinx, Indigenous, or attending school in a rural area and/or come from a small town. These students are Kyleana Carbone, Ava Chadbourne, Kaia DeVries, Quang Nguyen, and Andrii Obertas. 

  
  

  Additionally, the College Board has recognized Kaia DeVries as a Commended Scholar for achieving a score that was among the highest 50,000 scores on tests taken. 1.7 million students nationally took the 2019 PSAT/NMSQT.

• Engaging Maine High Schoolers in Cube Satellite Development

  Lanba, Asheesh. University of Southern Maine, October 9, 2020, "USM Voices: Engaging Maine high schoolers in Cube Satellite development."

  Despite trying times with the current pandemic, science must go on. On Saturday, Sept. 26th, the University of Southern Maine kicked off a series of workshops intended to engage Maine high school students in Cube Satellite development. CubeSats are small research satellites that are made up of multiples of 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm, that have ushered in a new era of space research, allowing high-schools and universities to participate in this one very niche field. The workshop had prestigious speakers that included an award-winning educator, engineers work at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a commercial CubeSat kit company and USM faculty.

• FA's Opening Week

  The academic year at Fryeburg Academy is in full swing with in-person learning for over 450 day students and 60 resident students who hail from 16 different countries (China, Vietnam, Canada, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Spain, South Korea, Turkey, Rwanda, Ghana, Morocco, Ukraine, Cyprus, Japan/Russia, Nepal, and the United States).  Additionally, another 40 day students have opted to attend the Academy remotely, and 14 international students are participating in the Academy's newly launched remote learning program — World Classroom@FryeburgAcademy.