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Vermont Tech Celebrates 155th Commencement
ermont Technical ollege hosted its first of two com
mencement ceremonies. The event was a virtual celebration
broadcast as a Premier event on the college’s YouTube
channel, where it is still available for viewing. Vermont Tech
conferred certificates and degrees for students from
programs. The Practical Nursing (PN) students, whose semester
ends in June, will celebrate with a virtual commencement
ceremony on June 19, 2021.
Schylar Corsones-Brown addressed students, faculty, staff,
and families as the official student commencement speaker
for Saturday’s ceremony. She spoke about her own discomfort
of public speaking all while giving her speech flawlessly and
without referring to notes. “If you had asked me a year ago if I
saw myself giving this speech right now, I wouldn’t said there
was a better chance of a pandemic shutting down the world,”
said Corsones-Brown. She credits the advice of an instructor,
Professional Engineer, Scott Sabol, with her decision to “get
comfortable with being uncomfortable,” to be able to experience
college fully. She is a Summa Cum Lauda graduate of
the Architectural Engineering Technology bachelor’s program
and received the 4.0 GPA medallion and Tau Alpha Pi honor.
President Patricia Moulton praised the Class of 2021 as historic.
“You have not only met the rigor of a Vermont Tech
degree program, you studied remotely, followed health and
safety guidance to access lab and clinical work, and connected
with peers and faculty virtually to get through,” said Vermont
Tech’s president. “If there was a way to give each of you an
extra degree in resilience, we would,” continued Moulton.
This year marks the th anniversary of the college’s first
Is Your Child Getting Enough Exercise?
Parents have been exercising their curiosity
to ask me about children and exercising and
whether there is a benefit to their children
doing such activity. Well let me work out some
thoughts on this important topic.
Multiple health benefits
There are many benefits to children doing
exercise. While for an adult, this may mean
working out in the gym or running on a treadmill,
for children it means playing and being
physically active. When children do exercise
on a daily basis, the benefits are multiple, including making
the body healthier, reducing the risk of becoming overweight,
better sleeping at night, less risk of developing diabetes, and
simply feeling better about themselves and life in general.
Three elements of fitness
Exercise should focus on three elements of fitness – endurance,
strength, and flexibility.
• Endurance occurs when the heart is pumping and the
breathing of air increases, which is what we call aerobic exercise.
This type of exercise strengthens the ability of the heart
and lungs to move oxygen around the body. Playing sports
like basketball, and soccer, or simply bicycling, running, or
even brisk walking, are great examples of aerobic exercise.
• Strength helps the other muscles in the body get strong and
doesn’t just mean weightlifting. Pull-ups, pushups or simply
climbing on structures at the playground, like crossing the
monkey bars, can build up strength.
Job Training Well Done
The Vermont Foodbank’s Community Kitchen Academy
(CKA) is currently accepting applications for student enrollment
in its successful culinary job training program. CKA is
a 7-week program that involves hands-on learning in a commercial
kitchen, certifications and ob placement support.
Students learn culinary skills from industry professionals,
while transforming rescued food into delicious meals that
help people facing hunger at local food shelves and meal sites.
The program has a deep and lasting impact for participants
and the community, with graduates reporting increased skills
and confidence to get the obs they want, as well as a sense of
connection to their communities. We provide a COVID-safe
environment with strict organization protocols for employees
and students. More information will be provided to applicants.
CKA is located in Barre and Burlington. It is a statewide
program of the Vermont Foodbank that has been partnering
with Capstone Community Action and Feeding Chittenden for
over a decade, graduating nearly 400 students. Limited space
available. o cost to ualified applicants. pply online at
www.vtfoodbank.org/cka.
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Bachelor of Science degree program, the Bachelor of Science
in rchitectural Engineering Technology, so was fitting that
the student speaker is that program’s graduate. Overall there
were 212 honors awarded and 82% of the graduating class
are Vermont residents. The graduates are from 17 states and
countries with international students in the graduating class
from Bhutan, Ireland, and Thailand.
Recording of the 2021 Commencement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQV8BibI7bU&t=1s.
Website for the 2021 Commencement: www.vtc.edu/VTCgrad2021.
About Vermont Tech - Vermont Technical College is a
leading public college with a mission of applied education
and student-centeredness. One of the four institutions of the
Vermont State Colleges System, Vermont Tech serves students
from throughout Vermont, New England, and beyond
at its residential campuses in Williston and Randolph Center,
regional campuses in Brattleboro and Bennington, and at seven
nursing sites located throughout the state. Vermont Tech
features state-of-the-art laboratory experience and a highly
personalized classroom and student-life experience. All of
our programs utilize a technological educational component,
from the simulators used by our nursing program around the
state, to manufacturing laboratories in Randolph Center and
Williston. Our academic programs encompass a wide range
of engineering technology, agricultural, health, and business
fields that are vital to producing the knowledgeable workers
needed most by employers in the state and in the region. www.
vtc.edu.
• Flexibility involves stretching muscles and
joints to improve range of motion, and occurs
when children dance, do gymnastics, or take
martial arts classes.
How much exercise is best?
While trying to work all three types of exercise
into a daily schedule is ideal, any of these
types is better than simply sitting for hours to
watch videos, play games online, and snack on
non-nutritious foods.
So how much exercise is recommended for
children Toddlers should have at least minutes of active
play and preschoolers 120 minutes of active play daily including
planned adult-led physical activity and unstructured free
play.
deally, minutes or more of moderate to vigorous physi
cal activity daily is what is recommended by the American
Academy of Pediatrics for older children and teens, and it can
be spread out across the day.
Parents, you need to be good role models for exercise. Do
something active with your children and make it fun, so the
desire to build exercise into their day sustains beyond early
childhood.
Lewis First, MD, is Chief of Pediatrics at The University of
Vermont Children’s Hospital and Chair of the Department of
Pediatrics at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of
Medicine. You can also catch “First with Kids” weekly on
WOKO 98.9FM and NBC5.
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Free Kids Workshops In
East Hardwick
Puppeteers Justin Lander
and Rose Friedman (of Modern
Times Theater and Vermont
Vaudeville) are holding
a week of free workshops to
prepare for the East Hardwick
Children’s Parade events on
June 12th. Workshop participants
will build a kid-powered
street fair, creating carnival
booths, games and roving
performances, to be presented
at the end of the parade. The
workshops will take place June 7-11 from 2:30-4 p.m. at the
East Hardwick Grange. See our ad on page 8! Snacks will be
provided.
All workshops as well as the parade event itself will follow
Vermont’s current COVID-19 guidelines.
For more information and to sign up, contact Rose or Justin
at moderntimestheater@gmail.com or call 472-8987.
This project is sponsored in part by the Vermont Community
Foundation’s Green Mountain Fund Grant.
Central Vermont Career Center (CVCC) would like to congratulate
CVCC students for a job well done in Quarter 4 of 2020-2021.
Congratulations CVCC students for a wonderful Quarter 4 in 2020-2021!
Program Teacher Choice Awardees Student Choice Awardees
Automotive Technology Deacon Boucher TUHS Ryan Sayers SHS
Baking & Culinary Arts Victoria Vogel U32 Sabrina Gallison U32
Building Trades Hunter Morris SHS John Beling U32
Co-op Education August Thompson U32 N/A for this program N/A
Cosmetology Year 1 Lauren Preddy SHS Kendra Morse U32
Cosmetology Year 2 Abigail Turner HUHS Abigail Hebert NMHS
Digital Media Arts 1 Aaliyah Shannon MHS Elias Manriquez SHS
Digital Media Arts 2 Kent Barcomb SHS Teka Marie Phillips SHS
Electrical Technology Sebastian Kragh HMSCH Hunter Clark TUHS
Emergency Services Kaden Giroux U32 Kaden Giroux U32
Exploratory Technology Dakota Martin SHS Rowan Harple TUHS
Medical Professions Abigail Burachowski SHS Haley Newland TUHS
Natural Resources & Sustainability Ashlynn Perry U32 Caleb Salisbury SHS
Plumbing and Heating Tanner Woodard HUHS Ryan Glassford SHS
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