FA Announces Fall 2022-23 Semester I Honor/High Honor Roll

List of 5 news stories.

• Fryeburg Academy Students Place 1st and 2nd at the Maine State Science Fair

  Fryeburg Academy is pleased to announce that three Academy students were recognized for their outstanding science projects on Saturday, April 1st, at the Maine State Science Fair held at the University of Maine Orno.  May Shin ‘23 and Jiwon Choi ‘24 took first place in the Plant Sciences (Growth & Development) category out of ten submissions with their project entitled “The Effects of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Mushroom Substrate on the Plant Growth and Soil Characteristics for PE Microplastics-Contaminated Soil.” The pair studied the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizae and mushroom substrate on plant growth in soils that are contaminated with microplastics.

• FA Faculty Member Named as DOE’s Inaugural Class of Teacher Leader Fellows

  Fryeburg Academy is pleased to announce that faculty member James St. Pierre was among five Maine educators named to the prestigious Department of Education’s Inaugural Class of Teacher Leader Fellows. “Being a teacher leader means connecting and helping others connect. It means gathering the ideas and experiences of the teachers in the state and sharing them in manageable, practical, and efficient ways. We have such a great array of professionals whose knowledge can elevate all students, so to be one of the leaders bringing them together is a privilege,” says St. Pierre

• FA's Model UN Attends MUN Conference in New York

  FA's Model UN Team took its second-ever trip to New York City and the National High School MUN conference from March 9-13. The conference was held at the Midtown Manhattan Hilton blocks from the UN building. As representatives of Germany this year, our team was given the unique opportunity to visit the German Mission to the UN, where German diplomat, Hoger, answered our questions about global trade, green energy, and Russia's war on Ukraine. We also spent Saturday morning in the General Assembly of the UN seats, an unforgettable moment, listening to a young Iraqi-American man talk about his struggle to identify with both his birth home and his adopted home.

• Fryeburg Academy Announces 28 New Inductees to the B.W. Tinker Chapter of the National Honor Society

  We are pleased to announce that Fryeburg Academy inducted 28 new inductees to the B.W. Tinker Chapter of the National  Honor Society on Monday, March 20th. Membership in the National Honor Society is among the highest honors that can be awarded to a high school student. The B.W. Tinker Chapter of NHS works diligently to bring the accomplishments of outstanding students to the attention of parents, teachers, peers, and the community. And the chapter, along with the more than 15,000 chapters in schools across the nation, strive to give practical meaning to the Society's standards of scholarship, leadership, service, and character selection. Students are not inducted simply because of a high academic average, but rather recognized for excelling in all of these areas.

• Winter Sports Assembly Awards 2023

  On Thursday, March 16th, Fryeburg Academy celebrated the sports season with its annual winter sports awards assembly held in the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center. The following student-athletes were recognized for their outstanding performance during the winter 2022-23 season:
  
  

  Individual Team Awards

  Alpine- Sam Winterbottom '23, Coaches Award

  Clara Yager '26, Most Improved

  Hogan Bemis '23, Coaches Award

  Joshua Wake '23, Most Improved

  
  Boy's Basketball- Camden Johnson, Coaches Award

  Gunnar Saunders '24, MVP

  
  Girls' Basketball -Sydney Shaw, MVP

  Carla Pintor Gali '24, Coaches Award

  
  Ice Hockey- Peyton McMurtray, Adversity Award

  Caleb Micklon '23, MVP

  
  Indoor Track -Zack Emery, Coaches Award

  Emily Chaine '24, Coaches Award

  
  Nordic- Owen Reinbach '25, Coaches Award

  
  Wrestling- Gabe McKenney '23, The Athlete

  Eliya Deri '24, Heart

  
  All-Academic Team (seniors with a GPA of 3.2 or higher)

  David Bellis-Bennett, Alpine

  Kacey-Jane Clark, Nordic

  Owen Galligan, Ice Hockey

  Myles Garland, Ice Hockey

  Andrew Irwin, Nordic

  Elsie Leonard, Alpine

  Gabe McKenney, Wrestling

  Caleb Micklon, Ice Hockey

  Grace Murley, Alpine

  Ally Southwick, Girls' Basketball

  Isaac Twombly-Wiser, Nordic

  Samantha Winterbottom, Alpine

  
  All-WMC Conference Athletes

  Gunnar Saunders '23, Boys' Basketball

  Sydney Shaw '24, Girls' Basketball

  Mina Milosevic '24, Girls' Basketball

  Hogan Bemis '23, Alpine

  Holden Edenbach '25, Alpine

  Chandler Thorne '25, Alpine

  Jacob Adams '23, Indoor Track and Field

  
  3-Star Jacket Recipients (earned three varsity letters)

  Corbin Blake'23

  Elsie Leonard'23

  Emerson Hall '24

  Sydney Shaw '24

  Russell Carbonaro '25

  Jagger Helwig '25

  Chandler Thorne '25