Update: February 7, 2022

WMTW Features MSAD #51 for Mental Health Efforts

Several members of the MSAD #51 school community were featured on a recent News 8 WMTW segment about mental health and schools. The district's commitment to mental health supports over the last couple of years has been recognized as a model for ensuring that students are successfully transitioning back to full-time school after 18 months in hybrid and RED/remote schooling after the March 2020 COVID disruption began. Many thanks to GHS student Avery Olsen, GHS teachers Lori Gunn and Maureen Holland, GMS 6-8 Principal Mar-E Trebilcock, and GHS social worker Peter Scott for their roles in the segment.

https://www.wmtw.com/article/taking-a-community-approach-to-ensuring-mental-well-being-of-students/38969194

NASA Tech Rise Challenge

Congratulations to GMS 6-8 students Sam Palmlund, Erin Frost, Helen Kalinich, and Jonathan LaPlante. Last fall all 8th graders participated in the NASA Tech Rise Challenge. Their team’s proposal for the NASA Tech Rise Challenge was selected as a national winner! Here is the link to the challenge and all the winners:

The NASA Tech Rise Challenge required teams of students in participating middle and high schools around the country to submit a proposal for an experiment that could be conducted in microgravity aboard a suborbital rocket. Sam, Erin, Helen, and Jonathan collaborated on a winning proposal along with about 30 others in the country to actually be built and sent up next fall in a Blue Horizon rocket launched by NASA.

Our students will build, code, and engineer their experiment between now and the end of the school year. The rocket launch will happen sometime next fall.

For more info. on the Tech Rise Challenge: https://www.futureengineers.org/nasatechrise (Click the Suborbital Rocket link to see our team, Stab Science)

GHS Theater Back In-Person

"Midsummer Night's Dream" was on stage two weekends ago at the GCA, the first in-person theater production in two years. The GHS drama club welcomed audience members in-person for several showings. The next production is planned for April.

Community Service Club Helps Seniors

GHS students from the community service club helped shovel out senior citizens in need after last weekend's blizzard.

Winter 2022 Edition of The Greely Gazette

Congrats...

GHS senior Quincy Segal, whose work "Hotel Sevilla, Spain" on copper was selected to be exhibited in the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth College of Visual & Performing Arts' Emerging Young Artists 2022 Juried Exhibition.

Educators Valerie Dominski (MIW), Maureen Driscoll (MIW), and Denise Allen (GHS) for maintaining and renewing their National Board certifications. They are being recognized by the Maine Dept. of Education.

Pathways Highlight

Dominic (l) with Chief Rumsey & Det. Burns

As part of the high school's Pathways program, the Cumberland Police Department welcomed their new intern, Dominic Sola. Dominic is a Greely High School senior participating in the Pathways Program. This program works to build students’ field experiences and prepare them for career paths that they are interested in. Dominic has been drawn to a career in law enforcement since he was a small child, so CPD is pleased to have him for 60 hours over the course of this spring semester. He will spend time learning about all facets of law enforcement, including traffic control, animal control, dispatch and more. Dominic will also learn about the investigative aspects of law enforcement during his time with Detective Burnes.