In This Issue

A complete list of this

year’s spring & summer

graduates

A look at exemplary stu-

dent successes

Upcoming courses and

field trips

A sneek peek at Summer

and Fall curriculum

A wonderful ceremony to celebrate our largest senior class to date!

What an amazing year! This school year has seen some fantastic opportunities—not only did we gain new teachers in

Lincoln: Christine Dubois and Matt Lindsay, but we opened a new location in LaGrange, serving

the greater LaGrange and Howland area. We applaud teacher Kara Taheny and aide Ella

Lyford for a stellar first year!

A year celebrating connections

Not only were students all over the state able to connect with different instructors

through instructor-facilitated, wildly successful online classes—but they were able

to connect and build lasting relationships with their peers.

And in addition to building virtual support networks...

Students found other ways to explore all that Carleton Project has to offer. La-

Grange held a school dance to celebrate graduation...Bangor, LaGrange and

Presque Isle all hosted students from sister schools, engaging them in music, col-

lege tours and group yoga...and Houlton hosted an awesome all school Cinco de

Mayo get together! We’ve had a busy year!

Congratulations to our graduates!

"In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and

make reality." - Kristian Kan

Spring 2014

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Where will Carleton take

you?

Students have enjoyed

amazing guest speakers

and fun team-building and

awesome adventures!

A shout out to the graduates

Compete with the schools & districts who

support them…

Houlton/Hogdon: Tracy Boyington, Levi Chasse, David Dow, McKayla Graham, Jasmine Hardy, Audrey Miller, Nicholas Parker, Megan Sides and Derek Vose

Bangor: Tim Baker, William Easton, Davina Frazee, Brock Gould, Austin Hartmann, Meaghan Pehrson and Destiny Smith

Lincoln: Tanisha Arthurs, Zach Briggs, Samuel Eager, Kyle Holcomb, John McLain and Zach Ring

LaGrange/Howland: Cody Andrick, Justiss Brown, Alexis Coover, Cody Dunham, Dana Sherwood, Kenneth Tarnoczy and Anna Rideout

Presque Isle: Jack Fuhrmark & Kaleb Donovan, Mars Hill: Sage Ashby, Caribou: Nick Capell & Markus Marte, Washburn: Mykayla Espling and Fort Fairfield: Julia Potter

Exceptional

Students... A special pat on the back to

students raising the bar in their

communities:

Julia Potter for turning her

restaurant internship into a

paid position!

Mykayla Espling for being

awarded UMPI’s Innovative

Scholar scholarship!

Kyle Holcomb for being of-

fered a full scholarship for

NPT Region 3 Adult Weld-

ing Program!

Ryan Heath, for placing 1st

place in the axe throw and

pulp throw at the Region II

Logging Meet

Derek Vose, for placing 1st

runner up for Region III

Tech.’s Student of the Year

Kyran Daszkiewicz for

amazing service at the

Golden Key Senior Center!

Spotlight: Bangor

Bangor students joined UMO art students to make pins out of everything from Legos to Scrabble pieces. UMO students helped local fine arts deal-ers to sell the pins, raising $600.00. The funds gained went toward building our Music program; so far we have gained a banjo, guitar, bass, mandolin and ukulele. Thank you all for your hard work and support!

Also, kudos to teacher Chris Betts and his talented students on being high-lighted in the magazine identity, sponsored by YouthMoveMaine!

Bangor students had a great opportunity to develop their talents and record together!

It’s

hard

to call

it work

when

it’s so

much

fun!

Curriculum News

Our Online Wiki school has

had a great start this year!

We’ve run several English

courses relating to Literary

Theory, as well as History.

This Summer/Fall is going

to see more great classes,

including:

Guerilla Artfare

(environmental sculp-

ture)

Architectural Drawing

World Religions

World History

Shakespeare Studies

Modern Mythology

Special Topics in Soci-

olgy: Fear & Propogan-

da

And more!

This summer will also see a

return of Math camp, inten-

sive skill-building work-

shops and our popular Out-

door Recreational program-

ming.

We are also seeing the con-

tinuation of some amazing

student-driven independent

studies! Kyle Holcomb de-

signed a Robotics course

for students to

use ,andSarah Quinones of

Lincoln is taking the psy-

chology of facial recognition

to a whole other level, by

conducting a series of con-

trolled experiments to sup-

port her research, and then

analyzing the data! A per-

fect example of what a Car-

leton student is capable of!

Students work with interns and each other to soar to new heights!

Teacher Talk This has been an incredible year to be a teacher at Carleton Project!

Every week of the year, I’ve had the opportunity share in the exciting

opportunities that teachers all over the state have made available to their

student—man, I love my job!

This season has also seen a trip to the National Science Teacher’s As-

sociation conference in Boston. What amazing things are on the hori-

zon! We were blown away by the Lego robotics labs, and programming

looking at the biological and neural implications of a zombie apocalypse,

and breaking down the mathematical probabilities of tracking patterns of

infection! What we are really pumped about though, was looking at new

lab tools to fill out our Local Ecology toolbox, and at extending our Lab

Science curriculum to include Forensic Science.

And...to top it all off, we got to explore some

amazing modern artists at the ICA, and bring

some great aesthetic topics back to our stu-

dents—including renowned performance artist

Nick Cave (behind me).

Heather L Nuñez-Olmstead

Sometimes, you just gotta take advantage of being a Mainer... And a log snowy season is one of those, after a great year skiing and canoeing with the Maine Outdoor Education

Program (thanks to a Matt in Lincoln, for writing a successful grant for the program!) we are looking forward to

future endeavors with them. Northern schools were also able to hit the slopes at Big Rock.. Many thanks go out to

the folks at Big Rock and MOEP for their willingness to submit a grant to work with us throughout the year! An-

other healthy dose of Kudos to Matt for procuring hand-help GPR units and snowshoes through the DonorChoose

grant program!

Summertime means getting back to our roots

Our Local Ecology program keeps growing on the water quality studies on the B Stream in

Houlton. Since our program started as a wilderness and watershed program, it is only

fitting that we are always exploring ways to bring the indoors out!

We are also planning on some Geocaching and hiking excursions—cumulating again at

the ever popular Katahdin. A series of trips is also in the works to do team-building at the

University of Maine at Presque Isle, and exploring UMM campus, the College of the Atlan-

tic and the night sky festival in Bar Harbor. It’s great to be a Carleton student!

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Where we’re going

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