John Bapst's three Robotics Teams attended the second meet of the year Saturday, December 14, in Augusta. While all the teams did well, the varsity team pulled out all the stops and soared to the top of the lists for Maine, as they competed against 23 Maine schools, and others from Massachusetts, Read More
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National Honor Society Inducts 36 Students
Thirty-six students were inducted into the Harlow "Joe" Floyd Chapter of the National Honor Society, November 25, 2013 before an audience of family and friends in the Sekera Auditorium at John Bapst. The John Bapst Chamber Ensemble provided music for the beginning of the event, followed by a Read More
Oceanography Class Visits MMA
As part of Ms. Campbell's fall semester Oceanography course, students attended Maine Maritime Academy on October 2 to get some first-hand experience with marine science. Students spent part of the day on the MMA research vessel Friendship in Penobscot Bay doing bottom drags to survey what types of Read More
National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Scholars Announced
Matthew E. Spear '14 and Ryan K. Ward '14 have been named Semifinalists in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Competition. To qualify, they have each scored in the top 1% of 1.5 million students who took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Later this year, the National Read More
Coach Dan O’Connell Selected as a USA Today Top Football Coach in National Contest
Go Coach O'Connell! Go Crusaders! John Bapst is proud to announce that Coach Dan O'Connell has been named one of the 408 best high school football coaches in the nation by USA TODAY, and will compete with other coaches to determine the first-ever "Best High School Football Coach" in the nation. USA Read More
Sharp-eyed Freshman Christian Slazas Helps With Retreiver Rescue
Dean of Students Mrs. Wood reports that it was our student, 9th grader Christian Slazas, who noticed the "muddy, scared dog" and stopped to help. The sharp-eyed teen was driving with his mother when he noticed the dog, and made his mother stop the car and go back. She initially thought she was Read More
2013 First Day Speech by Student Senate President Jane Branch
It is a John Bapst tradition that the Student Senate President greet all students in an address at the fall Convocation. Senior Jane Branch delivered the speech below on August 27 in Sekera Auditorium before all students, new and returning. _________________________________________ My name is Jane Read More
Convocation Speech by Mr. John Emerson
Each year John Bapst begins the school semester with a Convocation. The entire school gathers as one body to be welcomed and hear wisdom by a member of the school staff. This year Mr. John Emerson, Chair of the Department of English and a member of the John Bapst faculty for 27 years, was introduced Read More
Hunter Pate ’15 Featured in BDN Fishing Tale
By John Holyoke, Bangor Daily News Hunter Pate is not one of a dying breed. Instead, he’s one of a breed that has slowly, one by one, simply given up. He is a striped-bass fisherman on the Penobscot River. And over the past seven years or so, many who share a passion for the hard-fighting, Read More
Fourth-quarter Honor Roll
Grade 12, high honors: Donald Brooks, Adrienne Carmack, Kendra Kelly, Jessica Leslie, Alyssa Munroe, Stephanie Parent, Darby Paul, Amelia Pellegrini; honors: Megan Ackley, Joshua Baker, Jordan Brasslett, Kelsey Burke, Cassandra Campbell, Jordan Carr, Nicole Carr, Andrew Catlin, Kathryne Cheff, Read More