Ross Powers is a world champion halfpipe snowboarder hailing from Peru, Vermont. Powers began snowboarding at an early age and he competed in his first US open when he was only 9 years old. A day after his 23 birthday, he lead the US sweep at the 2002 Winter Olympics, bringing home the gold in the men's halfpipe competition.
Demeny Pollitt is an automotive technician and the founder of Girlington Garage, a newly opened garage in South Burlington, Vermont. Pollitt grew up in Boston and Deerfield Massachusetts, and attended high school at the Putney School in southern Vermont.
Picture this – you're a struggling young design engineer with a couple of hot ideas up your sleeve. One evening, you're out for a stroll on the beach when you bump right into Paul Comey, Vice President of Environmental Affairs for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.
As any longtime reader will tell you, comic books traditionally feature some awesome origin stories. From the bullet-strewn beginnings of Dick Tracy to the cosmic saga of the Silver Surfer, comics are famous for their secret histories and iconic backstories. Perhaps then it's appropriate that the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction has an iconic origin story of its own.

Engineering students improve air quality for cheese

Four engineering students have designed and built a prototype ammonia filter to improve the air quality for cheese at the Jasper Hill Farm, in Greensboro, VT.

High school students honored by Governor's Institutes of Vermont

Vermont high school students are being honored for completing studies at the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont this summer. The attached list of students completed Institutes in ArtsAsian CulturesEngineeringInformation TechnologyMathScience and Technology or Current Issues and Youth Activism.

Students to attend 2010 IESO Indonesia

Eight students who participated in the UVM/GIV Engineering Institute held June 26-July 3, 2010 at UVM have been selected to represent the United States at the 2010 Fourth International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) to be held September 19 to 28, 2010 at the Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. They are:

Chapin Bryce, Cambridge, VT busybryces2@yahoo.com

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