FARMINGTON — Mt. Blue sophomore Jacob Miller held onto a high-elevation balloon as it was inflated with helium in preparation of its launch into space with attached payloads and sensors. Once it was ready, those holding the balloon released it. It floated up and out of sight quickly. Miller and fellow sophomores in Doug Hodum’s […]
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Farmington teacher to work on U.S. education policy
FARMINGTON — Mt. Blue High School science teacher Doug Hodum will spend 11 months in a different type of classroom beginning Sept. 1. He will work on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on education policy for U.S. Rep. Mike Honda, a Democrat, representing the Congressional District 17 that includes Silicon Valley in California. Hodum is one of […]
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Slime, seeds launched with weather balloon at Farmington
FARMINGTON — A high-elevation weather balloon carrying slime mold and seeds was launched Thursday from a field across from the Mt. Blue Campus to collect scientific data for studies by high school biology and college engineering students. The astrobiology-scientific balloon project is sponsored by NASA. Rick Eason, an associate professor who teaches electrical and computer-engineering […]
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Hodum continues work with RSU 9 panel to develop pilot evaluation system
FARMINGTON — An RSU 9 committee is developing a pilot teacher evaluation system to meet the state’s requirement for school districts to have one in place by the beginning of the 2014-15 school year. Doug Hodum, 43, a biology teacher at Mt. Blue High School and head of the Science Department, began working on policy […]