25 May What’s it like for a #Maine teacher in our mentorship program?
What's it like for a #Maine teacher in our mentorship program? Interested in learning more? Let's chat! ...
06 Apr Building a Future-Ready Workforce in the post-Covid world
What does the post-Covid workplace look like? How have things in the workplace and education shifted? What skills are 'essential' on the horizon for today's students to find gainful employment or business ownership? They are all important questions as we move out of the Covid...
25 Feb Incredible Learning Opps with Jackson Labs!
Each month Bridge Academy facilitates meetings between high school math teachers and college faculty to discuss ideas and innovation in teaching mathematics. Yesterday Dr. Emaly Piecuch, from Jackson Laboratory in Maine, was a guest speaker to introduce Teaching the Genome Generation and many other links to free...
05 Feb Partnerships Open Doors
What a privilege to help Hermon High School, United Technologies Center and Eastern Maine Community College connect the dots for these two incredible students, Brooklyn and Malaya. Many thanks to Maine Women Magazine for this great article! If you're a school in #Maine who hasn't explored a...
25 Jan Welcoming Two New Board Members
Join us in welcoming Hon. Joyce Maker - Fmr. Maine Legislator, MCCS Board of Trustees, and Senator Matthew Pouliot from District 15 to our incredible Board of Directors! ...
12 Jan “Tour de Force,” Kaarie Burns
[caption id="attachment_1577" align="alignright" width="300"] Hermon High School (2016), Region 4 United Technologies Center (2016): Building Construction. Maine Maritime Academy (2019), Marine Engineering Operations[/caption] While Kaarie was taking her college courses through the University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) and University of Maine within her traditional classroom...
11 Jan Moving Forward in 2021
Over the next several weeks, we will be sharing stories with you about new initiatives in our program, and more importantly, graduate success stories of the Bridge Academy program from around the state. We are always encouraged by the feedback we hear from students after...
29 Dec Looking Back… to 2017
We took some time recently to take a look back at February 28th, 2017 when Mike Rowe, TV host of the popular show "Dirty Jobs", testified before the House Education & the Workforce Committee on the importance of career and technical education. Rowe's words in 2017...
13 Dec Bridge Academy Joins Brightspace Partnership with Maine Colleges
The University of Maine System and Maine Community College System recently contracted with D2L for their learning management system (LMS), known as “Brightspace”. In the past, the two systems used different platforms to administer online course content to students. With both systems now using Brightspace,...