CVU Celebrations

On Friday, March 22, we will host our annual Advisory Conferences with students and caregivers. These conferences are an important time for us to get to you, and to talk with our students about their experiences, goals, and plans. Please be on the look out for an invitation from your student's advisor. Some of these conferences may occur before or after March 22.

3/14 - CVU Blood Drive

3/21 - Spectrum Sleep Out

3/22 - Parent/Student/Advisor Conferences (no regularly scheduled classes)

Hello! This is Mira. This week in Student Council we debriefed the Winter Carnival, and brainstormed how Student Council can help organize it next year. One thing I have noticed this year in Student Council, more than in years past, is how we’re debriefing events after they happen: the notes that we take that keep a record of what did and didn’t go well help us when we plan annual events that have the potential to improve every year. Speaking of annual events…this week we prepared more for the annual Blood Drive, stationing people to sign people up at lunch and assigning jobs for the actual day of the drive. Lastly, students broke off from the big group and worked on the upcoming first-ever Cultural Awareness Week.

Jonah earned a Celebrations this week when he shared that his cat is named Leonardo DiCatprio. As a fan of all things dad-jokes, this may be the all-time winner.

Students, I promise you that there is some parent and caregiver out there who is searching for one of these lost sport coats from Winter Ball. These things are expensive, y'all! Come find them in the Main Office!

It's not Super Tuesday if we don't have any voters! Thank you, Veronica and Suzie.

The CVU Indoor Track Team sent 18 athletes to the New England Championships Saturday night in Boston. The Redhawks put down spectacular performances against the toughest competition of the season. A fantastic display of dedication and sportsmanship. CVU New England Team: Lydia Donahue, Lily Gordon, Isabella Gravina-Budis, Zoe Jenkins-Mui, Claire Kim, Elsa Klein, Kate Kogut, Alice Kredell, Audrey Neilson, Amelia Novak, Owen Cook, Dylan Elder, Quintin Fortier, Simon Hunt, Logan Masson, Treson McEnaney, Avery Rogers, AJ Sicard. Performance Highlights: • Quintin – set school record in 300m of 36.89 • Boys 4x400m of Quintin, Treson, AJ, and Dylan – set a school record of 3:44.89 • Boys 4x200m of Simon, Logan, Owen, and Quintin – not quite a school record but second on the all time CVU list and fastest time since 2014 • Alice – 10th place overall in the 1 mile • Lydia - 15th place overall in the 1 mile with a Personal Best Time and 2nd on the CVU school record list (Alice has the school record) • Avery –PR in the 55m Dash of 6.76 and 2nd in CVU record list • Claire (1 mile), Izzy & Zoe (600M) and Elsa(1000m) all set personal records • Audrey placed 21st in the 1000m • Amelia and Avery placed 29th & 30th in the long jump and Kate placed 35th in the shot put. • Girls 4x400m of Kate, Claire, Lily, and Izzy – set the second fastest time of the season.

Snelling Personal Health students practiced a little self care with a quiet body scan to end the week.

The State Championship races in Nordic Skiing took place over vacation and CVU’s Girls team WON! The Boys team fought hard for a 3rd place finish with several new skiers stepping up to fill in for missing team mates. Individual, Relay and Team results below:

Girls

Classic Individual Race Results:

Estella Laird - 3rd

Charlotte Crum - 10th

Annelise Wood - 11th

Lilyanna Mittelstadt - 14th

Maeve Parker- Clark - 22nd

Annika Johnson - 27th

Senja Erickson - 28th

Kate Silverman - 43th

Skate Individual Race Results:

Estella Laird - 5th

Charlotte Crum - 8th

Annelise Wood - 9th

Lilyanna Mittelstadt - 17th

Annika Johnson - 18th

Senja Erickson - 25th

Maeve Parker-Clark - 28th

Classic Relay Team: 1st

Estella Laird

Charlotte Crum

Lilyanna Mittelstadt

Annelise Wood

Skate Relay Team: 2nd

Estella Laird

Charlotte Crum

Lilyanna Mittelstadt

Annelise Wood

Boys

Classic Individual Race Results:

Owen Deale - 4th

Anders Johnson - 10th

Luke Buehler - 19th

Afton Danforth - 35th

Trey Lundquist - 52nd

Brian Simkins - 54th

Dylan Elders - 56th

Charlie Schramm - 64th

Skate Individual Race Results:

Owen Deale - 3rd

Anders Johnson - 10th

Luke Buehler - 19th

Brian Simkins - 32nd

Eli Quickel - 52nd

Charlie Schramm - 59th

Dylan Elders - 61st

Trey Lundquist - 63rd

Classic Relay Team: 3rd

Owen Deale

Luke Buehler

Anders Johnson

Afton Danforth

Skate Relay Team: 3rd

Owen Deale

Luke Buehler

Anders Johnson

Brian Simkins

From Genevieve Smith: Travis Glock played Le Loto in French 1 and won 3 times!

From Arthur Chiaravalli: Pics from this morning's Inspiration Ceremony

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From Lizzie Fox Lausier: The Friday before break, 8 students (Emma Jean Armstrong, Ace Caldwell, Ella Lisle, Sam Moore, Mira Novak, Levi Olsen, Charlotte Tyler, and Karmen Wilbur) participated in a schoolwide recitation competition, Poetry Out Loud, as part of Winter Carnival. Each competitor memorized, dramatized, and performed 2 poems of their choice. Junior Abigail Usher mc'd the event, and faculty members Brad Miller, Molly Tonino and Josh Rooney served as judges. Faculty coordinator Lizzy Fox Lausier served as the accuracy judge, tracking how well each performer replicated their poems word-for-word, and Jess LaPlante tallied scores.

Throughout the performance, audience members engaged in writing prompts and were invited to read their original creations. It was a beautiful display of our student body's creativity!

Two winners were announced: runner-up Karmen Wilbur and school champion Mira Novak! Both students performed at the schoolwide assembly later that day, and Mira went on to perform her pieces in the State semi-finals at the Barre Opera House on March 7th, with fellow CVU participants cheering her on in the audience. Congratulations to Karmen, Mira, and all the students who competed this year!

On Friday afternoon, Fairbanks CORE students faced off in their annual bridge building competition. Thank you to John Bushnell and Sarah Strack for planning this thrilling team event.

From Olaf Verdonk: I recently ran into TWO different former CVU students out in the World doing great things!

Adam Zuchkowski (2020 grad?) is now a senior at UVM studying BioMedical Science and was leading the tour my son was taking of UVM this week! He was an amazing speaker and tour guide, communicating with passion and clarity!

Jason Brown (2007 grad) I met today on a field trip with some students to the Generator MakerSpace! Continuing to do what he did as a Design & Engineering Technology student at CVU....making awesome stuff!

Lillian McClain, Lydia Eshete, Robert Nesbit, Anders Linseisen - Participating in BETA Labs project at Generator MakerSpace on Friday. Working in mixed groups with some students from a couple of schools from across the lake. They are working with BETA engineers to collaboratively solve some real world problems!

For the CVU Girls Hoop team, it only feels right to use group photos to honor their State Championship. The made, stayed, and played as a team for the entire season. You won something much more important than the trophy.

Really, the picture says it all. Our Dance Team is awesome!

Thank you to Kari Roberts for being an extraordinarily supportive colleague. Who else would return from a two-year international fellowship and say "yes" to working with a new team, hosting a student teacher, and mentoring a new teacher? Fairbanks is absurdly fortunate to have you as the core of our CORE!

Can you find Rahn Fleming and Rose Meyer in this photo? If so, you've located CVU's Spirit Captains!

March 8 Budget Update

Superintendent Sanchez has provided an update on the development process for a revised budget. Please see this post on the district's blog for the full text of his update. Thank you!