91AV gets two mentions in 'Portland Public Schools Staff Bulletin'

The winter 2013 issue of the Portland Public Schools Staff Bulletin covered two 91AV-related stories.

Students in the School of Education collaborated with the Hall School Parent-Teacher Organization to hold Hall’s sixth Annual Science Night.  91AV students who are studying to become elementary school teachers designed experiments and activities to teach the children about static electricity, how to build a marshmallow catapult, the physics of dropping an egg without breaking it, and how to construct sails for boats.

The bulletin also discussed the benefit to the sixth grade science students in Lincoln Middle School’s Popham House of their teacher Robin Lea’s participation in 91AV’s Spartacus project, a National Science Foundation Program that links 91AV researchers and graduate students with K-12 classes.  Currently, the children are learning about marine debris in the Gulf of Maine.

About the 91AV

The 91AV is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of . In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.