Recruitment Time!!!

Recruiting for the Foothills Region

Carrabec 3/10 - 7:45Mt. Blue 3/13- 12:29Waterville 3/13 8:05

Mt. Abram- 3/17-12:45Madison 3/19- 8:10Valley 3/19- 12:20

Skowhegan 3/20-9:50Lawrence 3/20- 12:25

If you’re available, feel free to join

Contents Student News page 2

SAT Prep page 3

New Students! page 3

Trio Day Recap pages 5

College Acceptances page 6

Save these Dates!!!

March 28 Hockey Game, 

April 18- Springtime fun at UMF,

June 22-August 1- Summer 2014 "See you there!”

Looking UpFebruary 2014 University of Maine Farmington Upward Bound

Happy Birthday!!Devin Mercier – 2/2Veronica Manasco – 2/4Holley Barker- 2/7Ann Marie Hannon- 2/7Jordan Dumont- 2/8Misty Waters- 2/12Ryan Bennett- 2/13Autumn Cote- 2/19Nathan Billings- 2/23Nicholas Billings- 2/23

Averill, Rachel 3/7Elizabeth Edwards 3/9

Terry Clark 3/17Tiara Meng 3/19

David Washburn 3/26Jerusha-Marie Caldwell 3/31

Karissa Murphy 3/31

Student News-Calvin Downey made All-State Band and is First Chair for the District Two Band-Michael Hilton is the manager and Andrew Marden is the statistician for the Valley Basketball teams. -Courtney Ireland earned the Music Department Award from Skowhegan Area High School for the month of December-Ashley Avery and Phil Collins are in the one-act “Everyman” at Madison High School.-Jeremy Austin is Buffalo Bill in “Annie Get Your Gun” at Buckfield High School this spring-Desiree Dunn is a teacher’s Aide in Chemistry, is in the Chinese Club, and started a Writer’s Club at school.-Montana Roy is volunteering at Fairfield Primary School.-Becca Stitham is pep band manager at Lawrence High School.-Jake Brown and Tiana Gordon will be competing at National History Day at UMO in April. -Chloe Flagg, Emilly LaFleur, and Allison Bernier are preparing for the one act with Spruce Mountain High School.-Caitlyn Young and Linda Dudley received Department Awards in January from Skowhegan Area High School, Caitlyn for Math and Linda for Speech/Drama.-Ashely Avery earned her Permit!!-Congratulations to the Madison cheerleaders for winning third in the

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Welcome Our New Students!Alex Brough - Buckfield Courtney Keough - Buckfield Samantha Strout - Buckfield Kayla Perry - Dirigo Chantel Whitman- Dirigo Ryan Bennett - Mountain Valley Jasmine Bussiere - Spruce Mountain Brianna Gould - Spruce MountainEmily Mitchell - Spruce Mountain

Since SAT’s are right around the corner, we’ve included some SAT study tips!

Good Luck & Enjoy!

Essay Tips1. Use your flagrant vocabulary words only as perfectly appropriate. Graders would rather see a handful of expertly used vocabulary words than dozens of poorly used, clearly memorized terms.

To make these “buzzwords” sound more like vernacular, try incorporating the words into your daily conversations and homework!2. Write legibly – graders will not spend very long trying to decipher sloppy handwriting.

If you’ve had teachers mention that you have sloppy handwriting, or even if you consider your handwriting messy, go ahead and practice writing more clearly now – so it’s more natural while writing your essay!3. Follow the basic approach of writing an essay, as you have limited space to demonstrate your skills to the graders.

Intro with thesis, supporting body with clear evidence, and conclusion supporting thesis. That basic!

Mathematics TipsCheck out sites like the official SAT practice

questions online, and be sure to brush up on

more advanced math questions in the areas

covered (think: geometry, algebra 2, algebra 1,

basic math computations, what did you struggle

with in each, and then go from there)!

Critical Reading- “Make it personal”- try incorporating analytical skills into your daily life, as well as tying your critical

reading skills into other parts of your day. Check out the questions on the SAT website, and try FreeRice.com!

Alex Brough - Buckfield Courtney Keough - Buckfield Samantha Strout - Buckfield Kayla Perry - Dirigo Chantel Whitman- Dirigo Ryan Bennett - Mountain Valley Jasmine Bussiere - Spruce Mountain Brianna Gould - Spruce MountainEmily Mitchell - Spruce Mountain

TRiO Day - Mario GerardiTRIO Day this year was very interesting! Us UB'ers arrived at the

Sheraton hotel in Framingham, Massachusetts to be greeted by tons of other UB'ers from around New England, and we participated in a variety of different activities and events. We went on a college tour (in which the college you went to was randomly assigned; I went to Boston College) and had a group of current students tell us about their experiences, as well as the admissions counselor.

That night we had dinner and a dance, which was very loud and deafening, but was also extremely fun! It was a great experience to be able to get to know other UB'ers and to see the diversity of UB'ers around the New England area.

The next morning, we had a college fair and an hour long seminar, which were both very informative and helpful. In my seminar, we talked about the '4.0 that really matters' and about financial needs. The college fair had tons of colleges from around the New England region, including UMF! After all of that was over, we had some guest speakers and UB alumni talk to us about their experiences being in college/trying to find the right college and then we headed home. Overall, TRIO Day was, in my opinion, a fantastic time.

Updated College Acceptances!Congratulations!!Jeremy Austin- USM, Clark, USM, UMF

Rachel Averill- USM, UMO, CurryHolley Barker- USM, UMM, UMF, SMCC, NESCOM, Shawn Bennett-UMO, Daniel WebsterAnthony Boucher- Wentworth, UMO, MMA, ClarksonJake Brown-USM, Husson, UMO, Colby-Sawyer, ScrantonChad Buote-CMCCTiffany Camire- UMO, HussonKatelin Carey- UMF, University of New Haven, Clark, Becker, University of Dallas, UNH, Thomas, UMOKrystal Coady- CMCCPhil Collins- Thomas, UMF, USM, UMOStefanie Dizney- UNE, Unity, UMO, UMMAlyssa Doucette- Husson, UMFLinda Dudley- UMO, USM, UNE, UMMDesiree Dunn- UMO, UNEElliot Eno- UMFZach Espeaignnette- CMCC, SMCCJJ Freeman- UMA, UMF, USMTiana Gordon-UMO, USM, Colby-Sawyer, University of Scranton, UNH, HussonAnnMarie Hannon-EMCC, SMCC, Southern New Hampshire UniversityMichael Hilton-UMO, Bryant, Ithaca, USMCassidy Holt- UNE, Husson, Quinnipiac, UMF, Unity, YCCCAlexia Krupp- Johnson & Wales, SMCC, CIA, CMCC, New England Culinary InstituteAimee LaFlamme-UMF, USM, Husson, UNE, UMOKara Libby- UMF, UMFK, UMMElizabeth Lyons- St. Joe’s, CMCC, ElmiraScott Maclean- UMPI, UMFAndrew Marden-UMO, SNHU, USM, URI, UNH, UMFHeather McDonald- USM, UMF, UMPIMonique Mills- UMO, USM, UMM, Slippery Rock, Roanoke, URIDanika Morin - Clark, Elmira, Thomas, UMFKarissa Murphy- UMA, SMCC, CMCCFaith Paglierani- UNE, UMM, UMO, Unity, URICheyenne Paul- University of North Texas, Amarillo, UTexas AustinMacee Qi- UMF, UMO, SmithChloe Quinn- Drexel, USM, UMOClyde Riggs- CMCC, UMM, UMPI, UMFJessica Snyder- Thomas, New England College, UMF, USMRebecca Stitham- USM, UMO, KVCC, UMPI, UMABrett Stuard- UMF, USMMisty Waters- UMF, Colby SawyerBaily Williams-UMO, Elmira, UNE, St. Michael’s