and the Ancient Universities of Great Britain. Athletics Participation in sports is generally required for grade advancement. Middle School students are required to play three sports (an activity like "maker space" will also satisfy this requirement) during their course of study (one for each trimester), and participation in interscholastic athletics is required of Upper School students for at least one trimester per year. Waivers are given to Upper School students participating in a sport not offered at the school. Other after-school extracurricular activities, such as drama, dance, robotics, or independent research projects through the "Innovation Center", are offered as well. Lower school students participate in intramural sports. Berwick currently fields teams in golf, soccer, field hockey, cross country, ice hockey, basketball, swimming, lacrosse, softball, tennis, baseball, and rowing. Teams compete in the Eastern Independent League (EIL) and New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) are divided by gender and skill level. Awards and recognition In 2011, a student was selected as a winner of the Arts Olympiad to represent the state of Maine. A few other students were also invited to participate in the workshops at the World Children's Festival. In 2011 a team of seventh and eighth grade students won first place in the international Odyssey of the Mind competition, and bested teams from all over the globe. In 2013 Berwick Academy's innovation center placed third in the Follett Challenge and the school's library won $30,000 in prize money. In 2017, a Berwick Academy seventh grade student was Maine's representative at the National Geographic geography bee. Notable alumni and faculty Ichabod Goodwin (1794–1882), 27th Governor of New Hampshire Joseph McKean (academic) (1776–1818), Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, founder of Porcellian Club. Served as Berwick's second headmaster. John Holmes Burleigh (1822–77), U.S. Congressman from Maine, namesake of the Burleigh-Davidson Building, his former home John Noble Goodwin (1824–87) U.S. Congressman from Maine, Congressional Delegate from Arizona Territory, Chief Justice of Arizona Territory, and the first governor of Arizona Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909), novelist, author of A Country Doctor (1884), The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) Guy Tripp (1865-1927), business executive and U.S. Army brigadier general Louis B. Costello (1876–1959), newspaper publisher Gladys Hasty Carroll (1904–99), novelist, author of As The Earth Turns (1933) and Dunnybrook (1943) Casey Coleman (1951–2006), radio broadcaster and play-by-by announcer for the Cleveland Indians Mike Eruzione (b. 1954), former National Hockey League