PORTLAND — Laura Bither, a Cheverus High School junior, has been accepted to a program offering Maine high school juniors the opportunity to work with Bigelow Laboratory scientists in the field and in the lab.
The Keller-BLOOM Project is a four-day residential program in which students participate in field sampling on a daylong research cruise, perform data collection and analysis using state-of-the-art instrumentation, and present their findings to a public audience. Students are introduced to different marine science disciplines and will learn about academic and career options in the field.
Bither is the daughter of Louise Chasse-Bither and Dr. Michael Bither of Freeport.
BATH — Tia Bauer of Bath, a Hyde School senior, received the Most Valuable Senior Learner in English and Most Valuable Senior Learner in Performing Arts awards from the school. Bauer is a daughter of Susan Bauer.
Carolyn Moore of Harpswell, a junior, received the Most Valuable Underman Learner in a Foreign Language award from Hyde. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom and Mary Moore.
WISCASSET — Logan Grover, a junior at Wiscasset High School, has been selected to attend the Summer Future Business Leaders Academy at Mercy College in Manhattan and Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
He was nominated for the highly competitive program by the administration at the high school and was selected from students around the country after an application and interview process.
Glover is a son of Danny and Heidi Grover of Wiscasset.
Lindsay Laamann, a 2005 Morse High School alumna, will graduate from Springfield College in May with a Ph.D. in physical education, with a concentration in exercise physiology.
Laamann had earned a bachelor’s degree at Springfield College in 2009 and has accepted a teaching position at Northern State University in South Dakota this fall.
She was educated in Bath schools.
ASHBURNHAM, Mass. — Nathan Norton, a junior of Topsham, was named to the honor roll for the winter term at Cushing Academy — an independent, college preparatory school.
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