LIMESTONE — In celebration of Limestone’s Maine School of Science and Mathematics’ 30th anniversary, Thomas College delivered a themed weekend on design thinking for about 100 high school students this past weekend at the school.

The school has historically had special programming on special weekends, called themed weekends, to help expose their students to advanced and interesting topics. For example, the prototype for the first Windstorm Challenge occurred at a school-themed weekend in their junior Olympic-sized swimming pool, according to a news release from MacKenzie Young at Thomas College.

The weekend, delivered by Thomas College staff members Luke Shorty and Mike Duguay, was designed so that school students can now demonstrate successful knowledge and ability to qualify for Thomas College’s Design Thinking Badge.

“This is an experience that we are confident no other high school in the state is receiving,” said Shorty, Thomas College’s executive director of strategic initiatives. “Thomas College is known for being able to accelerate its students into their careers with our 3+1 program, and we thought what better place to pilot our one-day Design Thinking badge then at Maine’s only magnet school where students can accelerate their learning at their pace.”