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By All Means: Doing Whatever Necessary To Support Maine High School
Happy New Year and welcome back! Since the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences opened its doors to students in the fall of 2001 on the campus of Good Will-Hinckley in Fairfield, it has been our goal to offer high school students hands-on, project-based learning focusing on agriculture, sustainability, forestry, business, alternative energy and the environment….…
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MeANS Coffee House: Thursday, Feb. 2
Community is one of our core values here at MeANS. We’re always looking to build it any and every way we can. Toward that end, we have brought back the MeANS Coffee House where students, faculty, alumni, and our extended community come together to share poems, songs, instrumental performances, karaoke, and conversation. The next……
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Chart-er-ing A Course For Maine High School
The holiday season is a great time to remember what we’re thankful for. For everyone at the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences, it’s a long list. We’re thankful for our wonderful staff and faculty, and we’re thankful for our diverse student body. We’re thankful for the community that continues to support our mission, and we’re……
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MeANS Harvest Festival 2022: Celebrating Students And Their Work!
Harvest Festival 2022 is coming up on Oct. 14th, 3-5 p.m. While part of the focus is eating wood-fired pizza in an oven from Maine Grains (with ingredients grown and harvested on our campus); live music by Maine songwriter Mike Stackhouse; and lawn games galore (you know we love them!)—the real stars of the show……
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Learning About Farming: MeANS Students Talk Agriculture at Common Ground Fair
MeANS is proud to be a part of rural living in Maine and showed it at the 2022 Common Ground Country Fair! Held Sept. 23-25 at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners (MOFGA) Common Ground Education Center in Unity, Maine, the Common Ground Fair featured 1,000-plus exhibitors and speakers emphasizing rural communities, sustainable living, local……
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MeANS 2022 Graduates: We Did It!
Two sets of Maine Academy of Natural Sciences (MeANS) graduates walked across the lawn on our campus in Hinckley, Maine, stepped under our timber frame pavilion, and were handed well-earned high school diplomas in late July. MeANS graduates were honored in a ceremony on Friday, July 29, and graduates of our Threshold program were honored……