Sometimes the best place to talk and think about college is around a campfire. That’s how it was on a mid-July evening at Camp Susan Curtis in Stoneham, Maine, where a dozen campers and apprentices (counselor-in-training staff) gathered to hear from Osage Crie, the 2019 Mitchell Scholar from Fryeburg Academy. Crie, who was a camper… Read more »
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Silicon Valley Tech Leaders Teach Mitchell Scholars to Innovate the NIMBLE Way
NIMBLE founder Mariette Wharton helps lead a team of Mitchell Scholars and Alumni through a prototype development exercise as part of the Innovation Lab held at the Mitchell Institute. On a warm, mid-July Saturday morning, 15 Mitchell Scholars and Alumni gathered around a conference table at the Mitchell Institute’s headquarters in Portland. Some had yet… Read more »
For Estes, Work Is on the Menu This Summer
Through serving diners at 290 Maine Street in Norway, rising Mitchell Scholar Chloe Estes is a financial stakeholder in her own success. At $10,000 over four years, a Mitchell Scholarship is a significant help in closing the college affordability gap for recipients. But rare is the Scholar who doesn’t work one or more part-time jobs… Read more »
Mitchell Scholar Izere Makes the Most of Fellowship at Texas Instruments
School may be out for the summer, but for Mitchell Scholar Henry Izere the learning opportunities have shifted into high gear. Izere, the 2020 Mitchell Scholar from Portland High School and rising junior computer engineering major at the University of Maine, is spending summer 2022 interning in the Information Technology department at Texas Instruments (TI) in South Portland, Maine.
Mitchell Institute Seeks New Executive Assistant to President and CEO
The Mitchell Institute seeks an Executive Assistant to help us with our mission: to increase the likelihood that young people from every community in Maine will aspire to, pursue, and achieve a college education. We do that by providing a $10,000 scholarship to a graduating senior from every high school in Maine each year —… Read more »