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Building the Mitchell Scholar Community in 2024, From One Scholar to Another

At high school senior award ceremonies and graduations statewide, a beautiful thing happened once again this year: Mitchell Scholars who are now enrolled in college came home to present the Mitchell Scholarship to the 2024 recipients and welcome them into the Mitchell Institute family. And by the look on the faces of the new Mitchell… Read more »

Mitchell Scholar Cole Ellis Helps Keep Maine’s Heat Pumps Clean

If there’s one thing Mainers take seriously, it’s their home heating systems. And increasingly, the heat source of choice in the Pine Tree State is a heat pump. In fact, according to a recent Bloomberg article, Maine leads the U.S. when it comes to installing energy-efficient electric heat pumps and heat pump water heaters. “Nationwide,… Read more »

Four Scholars Elected to the Mitchell Institute Alumni Council

Elliott Simpson, the 2014 Mitchell Scholar from Hampden Academy and incoming President of the Mitchell Institute Alumni Council (MIAC), announced today that four fellow Mitchell Scholars have been elected to serve two-year terms on the alumni service organization. Adam Fortier-Brown, Sadie Libby, Lauren Turcotte Seavey, and Hunter Steele will begin serving on the Alumni Council… Read more »

Gagnon Joins the Truc Huynh Alumni Giving Society

With her most recent gift to the Mitchell Institute, Malinda Gagnon, the 1999 Mitchell Scholar from Telstar Regional High School and CEO of Uprise Partners—a Maine-based technology firm providing small and medium-sized businesses with IT, cybersecurity, software engineering, and automations—became the 18th and newest member of the Truc Huynh Alumni Giving Society. The Truc Huynh… Read more »