Vermont Education News (United States)

Vermont Academy students recently co-hosted an anti-bullying conference at the Hyde School in Connecticut. Tina Meier, of the Megan Meier Foundation, gave the keynote speech.

Vermont Academy will change from semesters to trimesters for the 2012-2013 academic year. This change will give students many more options for classes and international programs.

Vermont Academy students recently met with BIll McKibbin and other community members at the site of the old Bartonsville Bridge, demolished this summer by Hurricane Irene, to bring attention to climate change in the "Connect the Dots" campaign.

Students can win a trip for two to a North American Animation Festival and more with Tool Factory and Stop Motion Pro’s High Seas Animation Contest, as well as animation software to outfit their entire school.

The Brookhaven Learning Center in Chelsea, VT recently won a Children's Literacy Foundation Grant (CLiF) that entitles them to a $1000 worth of library books for their school! Reading has become a huge focus at Brookhaven in recent years.

Eleven Vermont Academy students participated in Vermont History Day, a competition sponsored by the Vermont Historical Society at Spaulding High School, Barre, VT.

The Snell Group anuncia que ya están disponibles los seminarios en línea en español y que pueden ser observados donde quiera y al momento que lo desee.

IAME is launching a free service to ARDMS-registered users to transmit their online CME credits directly into their ARDMS transcript.

Vermont Academy has won the Lakes Region Championship in freestyle skiing. The Lake Region includes Proctor Academy, Holderness School, the White Mountain School and Kimball Union Academy.

Nicole and Justin Matten of Barton, VT lost their 7 yr old daughter last December just 92 hrs after she received a flu shot. They recently joined the Vermont Coalition for Vaccine Choice to oppose proposed bills that threaten parental rights.

The Institute for Advanced Medical Education (IAME) is expanding on the success of their regional anesthesia training program by introducing ‘Regional Anesthesia’ a new Facebook group that supports the practice of ultrasound-guided nerve blocks.

Vermont Academy senior Anna Brown was recently named a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship competition.

Open the discussion in your family about bullying, being the new kid, overcoming obstacles and learning to recognize what’s really important.

LearnToSail.Net has released new upgraded versions of their Learn to Sail! with Multimedia! VOL I and II and Learn Coastal Navigation! with Multimedia! Training CDROMs to run on 64 bit Windows Systems.

Tool Factory’s Claymation Educator Kits provide everything teachers need to effectively integrate stop motion animation into everyday classroom lessons.

Nominations Open for NEW LifeChanger of the Year Program Created by National Life Group at Your403Classroom.com

GetEducated.com releases new rankings of the best colleges online for an online IT bachelor degree on the dimension of college affordability. These online college rankings are based on higher education costs at 43 regionally accredited universities.

GetEducated.com releases their rankings of the top online colleges for online degrees in psychology on the dimension of affordability. The consumer group’s online college cost rankings are based on a survey of 48 regionally accredited universities.

Renowned butcher and culinary mastermind Cole Ward is sharing his coveted butchering skills with fellow meat lovers June 4-5 during an informational and hands-on two-day seminar.

Author Jan Reynolds adapts her book about Balinese children having fun growing rice and chasing ducks while learning how the cycle of rice has sustained their culture for centuries through ancient sustainable farming methods.

With recent growth, College Help Center has released a new website, providing people with a faster and more efficient way to find the colleges they need.

Tool Factory will officially debut the Skoog for the first time in the US at this year's NSBA Annual Conference in San Francisco.

Vermont Performance Lab and Marlboro College to host “lab artists” in Embodied Learning: Practices from East and West

Creaza Education contains a movie editor, audio editor, mind-mapping tool and cartoon creator in one online package, eliminating platform and storage issues for schools.

On March 17, Vermont Jump$tart Coalition will present its 6th annual Vermont personal finance conference for teachers and parents at the Sheraton Hotel in South Burlington. For more information and to register, visit www.VtJumpStart.org.

PAX, a Program of Academic Exchange is looking for host families in the Burlington area. Exchange students are eager high school students from over 40 countries around the world. Interested in hosting ? Contact Alysse, your local PAX Coordinator.

Little Pines Multimedia has upgraded their online sailing courses at LearntoSailOnLine.Com to an instructional environment that offers certification upon completion.

Innovative weekend course on college admissions brings parents up to speed - Essex, Vermont

Dr. Tamar Diesendruck joins VCFA faculty to chair the new Master of Fine Arts Program in Music Composition

Matthew Monk joins VCFA faculty to chair the new Master of Fine Arts Program in Graphic Design

LearnToSail.Net has added the Navigation Aid Course Conversion Calculator and Basics Navigation DVD to their critically acclaimed Sailing training cdroms. critically acclaimed Sailing training cdroms.

Little Pines Multimedia is offering a Free Collectible Post Card of the Pilgrims Signing of the Mayflower Compact! in honor of Veterans' Day. The Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact on November, 11, the same day as Veterans' Day.

Finding the Lowest Priced Used and New Books Just Got 15 Times Faster, Two Times Easier, and 5% Kinder

Cooking with Wine the Essence of Life (www.cookingwithwinenmore.com) is a web-site devoted to the culinary art of cooking with wine and the simple pleasure of consuming the results. The web-site was lunched without great fanfare on October 1

Vinum Essentia est Vitae is a group was formed in the early part of 2010 after its founder recognized the continuation of several disturbing trends both in the wine industry and in wine purchase and consumption by the populus at large.

Join Log On To Learn as industry expert Rafiq Wayani provides four no-fee webinars related to some of the hottest VMware topics. These 60- minute webinar events are 100% free.

VNA & Hospice of SVHC will begin a nine-week training session on Sept. 9, for those interested in becoming a hospice volunteer. Hospice volunteers serve many vital roles administratively and with hospice patients and their families.

18th Abenaki Heritage Celebration Memorial Day Weekend

Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is receiving accreditation by the oldest regional accrediting association in the nation, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).

This innovative program allows businesses and individuals to raise money for schools' technology funds by recycling small electronics.

Southwestern Vermont Medical Center is working with St. Joseph Hospital/VAMC North Chicago to train residents in podiatry.

Saint johnsbury school music directors lead 35th annual northeast district junior high music festival

Whitehat Copycat System – The Next Generation Wealth Builder!

MISys Inc. (www.misysinc.com), developer of MISys manufacturing system software is pleased to announce our National Sponsorship of the QuickBooks® Conference Kit.

HRSentry has teamed up with Champlain College’s Workforce Development Center to offer a series of informative online workshops aimed at helping human resource managers at small to mid-sized companies.

A Busy Day software allows visual learners and those learning English as an additional language new tools to experience reading success.

The Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center has announced that its new holistic massage certificate program has received an approved school code from the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork.

The Future is Wild gives students exciting new ways to explore food chains, interdependence and adaptation.

Sponsored by the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs (VCNAA) in collaboration with the UVM Anthropology Department

Voice-over training and demo production company Such A Voice launches "The Big Event"