CVU Celebrations

Dear CVU Community: It's hard to believe that we are only one week out from break, and as this is the final Celebrations before Thanksgiving, I'd like to use this space to express gratitude. First, on this Veterans Day, thank you to all of those in our community who serve or have served. Students, you might be surprised at the number of your teachers and staff who are/were in the military.

Second, I want to call attention to the efforts and accomplishments we saw on display last week...and the ones that will continue through this weekend. From Amelie to XC New Englands to the Championship football game in Rutland tomorrow (featuring Cheer, too!), we celebrate the courage it takes to perform after years of training. And while the events are a joy to watch, nothing is better than seeing you embrace these risks together. Today, I asked one student to name the best part of rehearsing and training. She thought for a moment and then said, "Doing it all with my friends."

Finally, I also want to celebrate the times when we fall short of our collective goals. Trust me on this one--when we are in the moment, we never know when the low times become the strengths that lift us to something greater in the future.

See you in December Redhawks!

For Families of Seniors in the College Process: The Direction Center is getting ready to send Quarter 1 Transcripts to supplement submitted college applications. Quarter 1 scores from JumpRope have recently been converted to Alpha-Based scores and posted to PowerSchool. These are available for you to view in your PowerSchool account. Please look at these posted grades and then communicate with your School Counselor that they are ready to send to your colleges if you have already applied. Soon after we receive notification from you that you've reviewed those scores and they accurately represent what has been posted in JumpRope for your Q1 score, we will send your Quarter 1 Transcript to your prospective colleges. If we have not heard from you by Noon on Tuesday, November 15th, we will assume that your Q1 transcript is ready to be sent and we will be submitting that transcript as is. If you have any difficulty in viewing your Q1 grades in PowerSchool, or any concerns that there is an inaccuracy, please reach out to your school counselor before Tuesday at Noon for assistance.

Student Council is hosting its 1st annual Turkey Trot 5k! Sign up to run Saturday, November 19th at CVU with fellow students and community members. Celebrate the season of giving with bringing non-perishables upon your arrival for local families in need. Donations will go to the Hinesburg Food Shelf.

Join us from 4-5 pm on Tuesday, December 6 for our first Partnership for Meaningful Inclusion meeting of the year. Use this link to join our dialogue about how our community can be more inclusive of students with special needs.

Fiona Lemieux and Alena Curtis hanging out on the waterfront in Burlington - 67 degrees! flew kites, played games and took a walk on the bike path

This week the RoboHawks went to Charlotte Central School and Hinesburg Community School to meet with the First Lego League teams that we've helped to establish in those schools. While we were there, we gave demonstrations of our robots from current and past seasons, and helped the kids with programming challenges! We have continued to work on the hardware and software of our robot by starting a new linear slide prototype using drawer slides. We have also been improving the software running on our bot by adding more autonomous functions! We released a YouTube video about all of the intake prototypes we've made so far, and you can watch it here. Earlier this week, our championship banner arrived and we were able to hang it up in the design tech room!

Steve Reinemann and Chris Hood took 20 students to the UVM Cancer Convergence conference, to learn about careers in cancer research and heard from international cancer experts, see link below. Check out this interview with Millie Boardman.

Here is this week's edition of The CVU Show: https://youtu.be/7m131BYWhjE The CVU Show is now on Instagram. Please be sure to look for thecvushow

Susie and Russ jumped right into the deep end in our conversation with Matt about the nature of his job as the SAP (Substance Abuse Prevention) Counselor at CVU.

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From Community Skills: A shout out goes to Olaf Verdonk for coming through in the clutch and designing a placard for Joe Soares to use as he helps UVM game attendees to scan for electronic programs. Thanks, Olaf.

Members of the Together We Rise Club welcomed Jennie Emmons, retired FBI agent, to talk about what it was like being a female in a predominately male job. She openly shared her struggles and triumphs with our members and we’re so thankful. Jennie left us with the message to “Develop and nurture your support group. They will help you rise.

Last weekend, the following students represented CVU at the District Band Festival at Colchester HS: Annie Bingel, Connor Brien, Juliette Chant, Anna Dauerman, Rhett Gardner, Fisher Irwin, Gwen Irwin, Cecelia Marino, Tom Roberts and Ariel Toohey.

This week on Ready Set Go, featured are shoutouts to or by, and/or music requested by: Tom Daily, Alicia Kroll, Gretchen Kramer, Peter Booth, Rahn Flemming, Brian Rutherford, Sophia Chiaravalli, Mahoune Felix, Cyndy Craft, Sam Daley, Anjelita Gil de Rubio, Seth Jensen, Fiona Wuertz, Zoe Richardson, Dylan Granger, Jeff Hindes, Chloe Silverman, Max Raynes, Jackson Kany, Bickram Dahal, Ari Diamond, George Schock, Estelle Emmons, Charlotte Roberts, Leah Meade, Kate Bigue, Ayden Drown, Debbie Searton, and Skylare Kinsbury Musical artists featured this week include: The Grateful Dean, Taylor Swift, Black Sabbath, The Weeknd, 2Pac, Lady Gaga, Van Halen, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizzard, The Beatles, ACDC, and Bruno Mars Want to listen? Tune into 99.3 or head to this link. Just find the "Listen" button on the right.

XC getting ready to head to New Englands!

Keira Stetson and Olivia Santos perform in The Nutcracker this year! Their hard work will be on display at The Flynn on November 17-18. Learn more here: https://www.flynnvt.org/Events/2022/12/vermonts-own-nutcracker

I missed this awesome anything but a backpack picture last week. Impressive effort, Brian!

CVU and MHS enjoy bowling this week!

Thanks to Jake Levison for this cool triptych of a completion. Alex Provost and the CVU Football team take on Middlebury on Saturday night in Rutland!

Crawford Phillips made this cool nameplate for John Wulff. We might need to hire you, Crawford!

Congratulations to Sarah Francisco who completed the NYC Marathon this week. Great work!

Hannah Carey was honored at UVM this week for her award as an Outstanding Educator. (Hannah, I'm sorry for the bad photo!).

There are too many coaches and directors to thank for your efforts this fall. People don't really understand how difficult your jobs are, but we thank you and honor your work!

As I was waving at cars in the morning this week, I was all too pleased to meet BB, the coolest grandparent of one of our CVU students. When I grow up, I want to be like her!!! It's possible she also beat me in arm wrestling.

Thank you to the many parents and caregivers who made showed their Redhawk spirit this week!

CVSD invites all community members to learn about and join in on the budget development process by attending upcoming School Board meetings. All members of the CVSD community are always welcome to attend Board meetings. See the topics and schedule in the image above and on the Budget page of the district's website. https://www.cvsdvt.org/budget

Links to join the virtual meetings will be available on that page and on the website calendar. We will also post the presentations on the Budget page afterward for those that cannot attend.

Hi CVU Community! With the upcoming holiday breaks, we want to make you all aware of resources provided by the broader community to embody taking care of one another. Please see the attached sheet for information on accessing food shelves, with some specific dates included for special holiday resources. If you are interested in donating to your local food shelf, see the designated website for details, or we invite you to donate to CVU Community Cares (see info, here). :) Thanks for being you and showing up in our community!

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