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Fort Kent Student and Principal Receive Invitation to Aspen Ideas Festival
From June 26 to July 4, Fort Kent Community High School student Noelle Dubay and principal Timothy Doak attended the prestigious Aspen Ideas Festival, an annual gathering of global leaders, intellectuals, and artists. The invitation came as part of the Bezos Scholars Program @ the Aspen Institute, which selects only 12 high school juniors and their principals from around the country to attend the festival each year. The scholarship provided Dubay and Doak with an all-expenses-paid trip to the international conference, where they attended seminars and meetings alongside some of the world's foremost politicians, thinkers, and innovators.
One of the goals of the four-year-old Bezos Scholars Program is not only to inspire participants to apply what they learn in their own lives and careers, but also to return home and organize a local Ideas Festival during the student's senior year that will have a positive impact on their school and community. To this end, the Bezos Family Foundation provides a $1,000 seed grant.
Since 2003, Fort Kent Community High School has been part of Maine's Promising Futures High School initiative, a grant program administered by the Great Schools Partnership and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. During this time, Fort Kent Community High School has emerged as one of the most progressive, forward-thinking schools in the state.
Only highly engaged students and principals from high-performing public high schools are invited to apply for the scholarships. To be eligible, the school must serve economically disadvantaged students and have either an Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate program. A team at the Bezos Family Foundation researches eligible public school in the United States and tracks education articles, honors, and other indicators of success. Fort Kent Community High School was one of only 200 schools in the country invited to apply.
For more about this story, you can read the Bangor Daily News article.
Fort Kent Student and Principal Receive Invitation to Aspen Ideas Festival
From June 26 to July 4, Fort Kent Community High School student Noelle Dubay and principal Timothy Doak attended the prestigious Aspen Ideas Festival, an annual gathering of global leaders, intellectuals, and artists. The invitation came as part of the Bezos Scholars Program @ the Aspen Institute, which selects only 12 high school juniors and their principals from around the country to attend the festival each year. The scholarship provided Dubay and Doak with an all-expenses-paid trip to the international conference, where they attended seminars and meetings alongside some of the world's foremost politicians, thinkers, and innovators.
One of the goals of the four-year-old Bezos Scholars Program is not only to inspire participants to apply what they learn in their own lives and careers, but also to return home and organize a local Ideas Festival during the student's senior year that will have a positive impact on their school and community. To this end, the Bezos Family Foundation provides a $1,000 seed grant.
Since 2003, Fort Kent Community High School has been part of Maine's Promising Futures High School initiative, a grant program administered by the Great Schools Partnership and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. During this time, Fort Kent Community High School has emerged as one of the most progressive, forward-thinking schools in the state.
Only highly engaged students and principals from high-performing public high schools are invited to apply for the scholarships. To be eligible, the school must serve economically disadvantaged students and have either an Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate program. A team at the Bezos Family Foundation researches eligible public school in the United States and tracks education articles, honors, and other indicators of success. Fort Kent Community High School was one of only 200 schools in the country invited to apply.
For more about this story, you can read the Bangor Daily News article.