Photos: Students’ hard work goes up, up and away in 3rd annual USM CubeSat Design competition

Students from a dozen middle and high schools competed in the University of Southern Maine’s third annual CubeSat Design Competition on Saturday at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington. A balloon took student-designed microsatellites to an altitude of about 120,000 feet, with the launch testing mission planning, engineering design, and performance of the student-built cubesats (a class of small cube-shaped research satellites, often weighing less than 3 pounds).

Mt. Blue High School lists honor students

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Mckella Ford is Foster CTE Center’s Student of the Year

Mckella Ford of Wilton is completing her second year in the Early Child Education program at Foster Career and Technical Education Center on Mt. Blue Campus in Farmington.

Local robotics teams qualify for New England District Championship

Knights of Katahdin, a rookie team from Wilton, and Blue Crew, a team with students and mentors from Farmington and Jay schools, are among the 90 FIRST Robotics Competition teams that qualified for the New England District Championship being held April 5-8 in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

Western Maine Women’s Wrestling calls for more girls to join

Mike Hansen, along with Heather MacDonald and Sarah Rowe, are working hard to recruit more girls to join the Western Maine Women's Wrestling club, which features girls from all over western Maine.

RSU 9 gets a visit from R2-Blue2

Richard Wilde of Foster Career and Technical Education Center appeared before the board and he brought with him the Blue Crew FIRST Robotics Competition team 6153 mascot, R2-Blue2.

Lions Club donates to Blue Crew robotics team

Mt. Blue High School names honor roll students

Mt. Blue girl’s wrestling seeks to make a varsity squad

Mt. Blue wrestling coach Michael Hansen approached the RSU 9 Board of Directors to talk about the amazing things the girl's wrestling team has accomplished, but also requested the formation of a varsity squad.