Galloway to keynote “Vermont Communities in a Digital Age” February 16
For immediate release Feb. 6, 2012 Contact Helen Labun Jordan e-Vermont Project Director Phone: (802) 225-6091 Email: Helen@vtrural.org (Montpelier, VT) – Anne Galloway, award-winning journalist and founder/editor of VTDigger.org, will be the keynote speaker at Vermont Communities in a Digital Age. This all-day workshop, presented by the e-Vermont Community Broadband Project, takes place February 16 [...]
Vermont Tech hosting Women in Engineering Technology Day February 8th
For immediate release Feb. 1, 2012 Contact Martha Trombley Oakes Phone: 802.728.1732 Email: MTrombleyOakes@vtc.vsc.edu Randolph, VT – Vermont Technical College is holding a Women in Engineering Technology Day one week from today on Wednesday, February 8th at the Vermont Tech Randolph Campus. The event is designed for young women interested in science and technology and will provide [...]
VT tech team finalists in Cornell Cup engineering competition
For immediate release Jan. 31, 2012 Contact Martha Trombley Oakes Phone: 802.728.1732 MTrombleyOakes@vtc.vsc.edu Randolph, VT – A team of four Vermont Tech students has been chosen as finalists for the inaugural Cornell Cup, USA, a college-level systems engineering competition, created to empower students to become inventors of the newest innovative applications of embedded technology. The Vermont Tech team, [...]
Handling the learning curve: Career readiness certificate puts workers at the “head of the line”
The Community College of Vermont and the state Department of Labor are teaming up with the private sector on credentialing programs for Vermont job seekers.
Former State Secretary of Agriculture Roger Allbee joins Vermont Technical College as senior scholar in residence
Vermont Technical College President Philip A. Conroy has announced that former Vermont Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Markets, Roger N. Allbee, has been named consultant and advisor to the President and the College.
Vermont Green jobs training program to hold expo on Nov. 9 at VTC
The free event is designed to showcase Vermont Green’s work providing over 1,700 Vermonters with coaching, training, certification and job placement in the green jobs sector.
Vermont food scraps, compost and power source
The information for this map came from a project to help determine the feasibility of building a methane digester at Vermont Technical College.
230 + 1: Latest infringement of public’s right to know benefits private donors
Why do people with money need special treatment? Since when is putting a pricetag on transparency a part of the democratic process?
Vermont tech launches wood pellet heating and educational project
The project is part of an effort “to transform Vermont ’s energy system,” lower greenhouse gas emissions, and create good-paying local jobs.
Lilly Ledbetter: ‘Just treat me fair’
Activist says women can’t support their families because of pay discrimination in the workplace Former Goodyear Tire plant manager details her nine-year struggle to bring her case to the U.S. Supreme Court With her thick Alabaman drawl, Lilly Ledbetter roused a crowd of several hundred people at Vermont Technical College in Randolph with stories from [...]
