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June 11, 2016

Meredith Hawkins, Yarmouth High School

Meredith Hawkins was young when she realized that some words can hurt. As a seventh-grader at Harrison Middle School in Yarmouth, she launched a campaign, “Spread the Word to End the Word,” to stop the derogatory use of “retard” and “retarded” in the town’s schools. “It was especially prevalent when I was in seventh grade,” […]
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June 11, 2016

Darren Thiboutot, Cheverus High School

Darren “Lil’ Bluesman” Thiboutot got a taste of the music business beyond Maine in January, when he performed at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee. Sponsored by the Maine Blues Society, Thiboutot was there as a noncompeting youth performer under age 21. Guitar in hand, he took the stage at Silky O’Sullivan’s on Beale […]
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June 11, 2016

Fred Pierce, Greely High School

Fred Pierce wasn’t getting much out of Greely High School before his junior year. Halfway through 10th grade, the Cumberland student was failing a few classes and wondering whether he’d graduate on time, let alone get his name on the honor roll. Then he visited the Westbrook Regional Vocational Center, which also serves students from […]
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June 11, 2016

Maryam Abdullah, Portland High School

As a little girl growing up in Baghdad, Maryam Abdullah marveled at the sight of airplanes soaring across the sky. She never imagined that she would one day fly to a new home in the United States or that she could ever hope to get a job at NASA. Abdullah was 8 years old when […]
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June 11, 2016

Henry Jones, Casco Bay High School

Henry Jones relishes his weirdness. His upbringing in a large, loving, diverse family is a major reason he enjoys solving problems for others, especially when it involves computers. And it explains why he was considered one of the friendliest and most helpful students at Casco Bay High School in Portland. “I’m a weird dude,” Jones […]

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June 11, 2016

Heritier ‘Fred’ Itangishaka and Everine Nzaninka, Westbrook High School

Heritier “Fred” Itangishaka and Everine Nzaninka don’t know exactly what happened to their parents. Brother and sister by adoption, each was about 8 years old when their birth parents were killed in 2006, a tragic result of civil strife that has plagued what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo for more than a […]
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June 11, 2016

Stanzin Angmo, North Yarmouth Academy

Stanzin Angmo comes from a place that claims the distinction of having several of the highest motorable roads in the world. An international student at North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Angmo grew up in the small village of Stok in Ladakh, a remote region of northern India on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas. Her […]
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June 11, 2016

Gage Anderson, Berwick Academy

Cancer terrifies most people. For Gage Anderson, it has been the driving focus of his independent studies since he was a freshman at Berwick Academy in South Berwick. “It’s a scourge on the Western world and the second-biggest killer in the United States,” Anderson said, “and I find it absolutely fascinating.” As a freshman, Gage […]
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June 11, 2016

Molly Merrifield, Gorham High School

While some high school graduates struggle to choose a career, Molly Merrifield already has a few, and she’s been working at them for a while. The Gorham High School graduate grew up on Merrifield Farm, a 25-acre spread in North Gorham, where she helped her parents, Lyle and Jo-Ann, produce maple syrup and make many […]
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June 11, 2016

Michael Lombardi, Traip Academy

When Michael Lombardi graduates from Traip Academy in Kittery on Friday, it won’t be the end of his high school education. Lombardi has been accepted to Bates College, but he’s delaying the start of his college career for one year so he can attend another year of high school in Aomori, Japan, a prefecture that […]

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