The Crusader Chess Club competed in the Maine State Scholastic Team Chess Championship in Orono on Saturday, March 10. The team of Minh Nguyen, Joshua Batstone, Kenneth Park, Devon Hunter, and Benjamin Deschesne came sixth out of fourteen teams, scoring 10 wins, 2 draws out of 20 games. Kenneth Park Read More
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The John Bapst Chess Team brings home trophies
This weekend, lead by Science Faculty and Coach, Michael Dudley, three of our six players (Minh Nguyen, Joshua Batstone, and Kenneth Park) from the John Bapst Chess Team competed at the Panther Open and Scholastic at Medomak Valley in Waldoboro, Maine. Minh and Josh finished first and second Read More
Special Guest Speaker, Dr. Franziska Seraphim
On Wednesday, January 24th, we welcomed a special guest to John Bapst for an assembly speak and classroom visits thereafter. Dr. Franziska Seraphim, Associate Professor of History from Boston College introduced an exhibit on loan from BC to John Bapst. The exhibit included thesis work Read More
John Bapst grad Meg Webster ’04 busy filming documentary film
Elephant Keeper The Story of a Mahout in Laos Two Maine filmmakers, Kate Kirby & Meg Webster, will be hosting a public feedback screening of their feature-length documentary film, Elephant Keeper, Wed, Aug 5th at 7pm in Orono. $10 suggested donation Q&A with directors to follow Hauck Read More
Cyber Defense Team Places in Top 8% in National Contest
On Friday, November 14, 2014, the John Bapst Cyber Defense Teams spent six hours competing in the CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Defense Competition. The competition puts teams of high school and middle school students in the position of newly hired IT professionals tasked with managing the Read More
Peace, Water, and Wisdom Race Raises over $1000
The John Bapst Student Environmental Action Committee's 4th Annual Peace Water and Wisdom Race was held on October 19th and raised over $1,000 for Initiative Eau and the BARKA foundation, which helps build wells and provide sanitation for the people of Burkina Faso in western Africa. The Read More
Cyber Defense Scores Top Ranks for New England
Last week John Bapst had five teams competing in a national Cyber Defense competition. From the official results released Friday evening, John Bapst's top scoring team has ranked 63rd in the nation. In the Northeast region (including New York and New England), they ranked number 1 tied with a team Read More
Bapst Tech Camp for Girls Featured in BDN Story
On a rainy Tuesday morning, 11 current and incoming John Bapst Memorial High School students gathered in a classroom in their nearly empty school building to learn how to build robots. They were participating in a week-long summer technology camp meant to get freshmen and sophomore students Read More
Coach O’Connell and Recent Graduates Howson and Jordan Lobster Bowl Bound!
Maria Howson and Nick Jordan, 2014 graduates of JB, have been selected to participate in The Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic, now in its 25th consecutive year with Lobster Bowl XXV. It is played each summer at the end of July. This year's game will be on Saturday, July 19th at Waterhouse Field in Read More
“Step Up for Wynter” Aids Local First Grader
We are pleased to report that a fundraiser held at John Bapst by the Top Hat II dance studio for local first-grader Wynter Przybylski's family help cover medical costs associated with her battle to overcome Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. The event raised $3,000. The donation-only May 16th dance Read More