CVU Celebrations

Dear CVU Community: Happy Friday and enjoy the beautiful weather this weekend!

• CVU Picture Retake Day is Here! Please keep reading if you missed picture day or if you want to have your photo retaken. Beltrami Studios will be at CVU to take your photo in the Mini Gym on Monday, October 24, 8:30am - 3:15pm. For retakes, students/faculty/staff must bring in their complete original photo package to the photographer and return it. To order online, please visit: CVU Makeup Retake Day 2022 event: CVU Makeup Retake Day passcode: cvu322 The link is live now and will be open until midnight on 10/27.

• On October 28, CVU will host its first Harbor Day of the year. Yeah, it's a strange name, but a cool concept. Learn more here.
• The week of October 31-November 4 is our Spirit Week. Keep an eye out for details on the annual Crystal Skull Halloween Costume Competition and other fun events.

From Jason Fearon: Drawing II students have just added their newest drawings to the CVU gallery space. Take a moment to look at these large scale still life pieces and read about the inspiration and process behind each one.With all the bones the timing seems just right too!

For advisory snack in Peter Booth’s advisory, Penelope Hohn brought both regular oreos AND lemon oreos which led to the creation of this magical moment:

Russ Aceto and Susie Moakley interview Brandon Kennedy from VSU. Listen to the podcast on one of the links below: Spotify , Apple .

From Crawford Phillips: The RoboHawks traveled over to the GlobalFoundries campus last week accompanied by the robotics teams from Essex, Burlington, and South Burlington. We explored the facilities and two of their Boston Dynamics Spot robots. These agile robotic dogs navigate the complex infrastructure of the GlobalFoundry’s factory while completing a multitude of missions. The team worked with GF engineers and programmers who work on the robots everyday day. We edited and tested the code and drove the robot ourselves. Looking on to the weekend, the RoboHawks will be headed to TechJam in Burlington. Bringing our robot along with a collection of prototype intake devices to share with the other teams. Although our team will be competing with the other schools, we take these opportunities to share our ideas and help improve all of our designs.

Gibbs W2 Writing Composition: Friday fun root word work! Posing with dictionaries-- and actually using them too!

The CVU Redhawks cybersecurity team competed in round 1 of ⁦the CyberPatriot competition yesterday. They got one of their highest scores ever and await to see how we placed against other teams across the US and the world. Pictured are Jack Gourlay, Max Olinsky-Paul, Addison Hoopes, Tabbi Auster, Will Sprigg, and Alex Fox.

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Here is the NEW episode of The CVU Show: https://youtu.be/-Vq2nxFoBfo The students are hard at work on a very special Halloween episode next week, so stay tuned!

Thanks to our Librarians for ensuring our Library is a dynamic, interesting, welcoming place to learn. Check out the latest Weekly Digest.

Thank you to all of our faculty who serve on committees like the ones featured in this shot of Program Council. This week we discussed the 2023-24 budget!

Rahn Fleming is featured in this article--as always expanding our sense of "we".

Nate and Taylor hoist and ensure proper lighting for our flag on a gorgeous fall afternoon!

Students that received final grades of an A- and above (high honors) for the 2021-2022 school year are eligible for a Mad River Glen Smarty Pants and Sugarbush Student Achievement passes. The Mad River Glen ski pass is free and Sugarbush will be offering a ski pass for $199.00 plus tax. If you would like to confirm your eligibility please come to the Direction Center.

Below are the steps and information for obtaining the ski passes.

Mad River Glen Smarty Pants Pass: The Mad River Glen link is https://www.madriverglen.com/smarty-pants. This will take you to the MRG web page which will have details about the program including a link to sign up and order a pass. Students will need to upload a photo at the time of ordering their pass. Any misuses of this link will result in the school and all qualifying students to lose the privilege to participate in the program for the upcoming year. Mad River Glenn will print and mail the pass, they will not be available for pick up at the ticket window. All season pass request must be submitted by November 30th 2022, at his point Mad River Glen will close the program and not accept any late request.

Sugarbush Student Achievement Pass: Students can pick up a Sugarbush voucher in the Direction Center starting on November 14, 2022. Parents and Guardians will need go to https://ikonpass.com to set up an account and sign the appropriate waivers. This website is also used to purchase the ski pass using the discount code provided on the Sugarbush voucher.

We want every member of our community to be included as we design CVSD's strategic plan for the next 5 years. You are invited to help identify our shared values and priorities. The upcoming Community Forums and the accompanying survey are the first steps in that direction. We invite you to join us at any of the Strategic Planning Community Forums and you may use this survey link to share your thoughts. https://bit.ly/CVSDOct22.

• October 15, 9:30 am, CVSD Strategic Planning Community Forum, WCS
• October 17, 9:00 am, CVSD Strategic Planning Community Forum, Pierson Library, Shelburne
• October 27, 6:00 pm, CVSD Strategic Planning Community Forum, CVU

We look forward to hearing from you!