Four hundred and thirty Vermont high school students attended the Governor's Institutes of Vermont (GIV) this summer.
GIV hosts intensive, hands-on learning experiences for young people on college campuses throughout Vermont. Nine Institutes were held this summer in the following topics: Arts, Asian Cultures, Current Issues & Youth Activism, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Science & Technology, Farms, Food & Your Future, Information Technology & Digital Media, and Mathematical Sciences.
The following area students were selected to attend the Institutes:
• Bellows Falls: Hollie Jackson, Arts.
• Brattleboro: Kimberly Bau, Mathematics; Vanessa Brown, Current Issues & Youth Activism; Casey Greenleaf, Arts; Edward Jablonski-Bigelow, Current Issues & Youth Activism; Spencer Loggia, Asian Cultures; Gabriel Pofcher, Information Technology; Rosalyn Pofcher, Current Issues & Youth Activism; Daniel Villarreal, Arts; Deshaii Ward, Arts; and Jordan Wright, Arts. Guilford: Dante' Fernandez, Mathematics; Michael Forward and Leon Ogden, Engineering.
• Marlboro: Keith Walsh, Current Issues & Youth Activism; Quinn Oliver, Environmental Science & Technology.
• Putney: Chase Baker, Arts; Trinna Larsen, Entrepreneurship; Aidan Paradis, Information Technology; Cullen Paradis, Current Issues & Youth Activism; Ira Richardson, Information Technology; Kaelan Selbach-Broad, Arts; and Dhananjaya Solin, Arts.
• Saxtons River: Jacob Gordon, Engineering; Timothy Guyon, Arts. South Newfane: Mitchell Redfield, Environmental Science & Technology.
• Townshend: Lindsey Vachon, Arts.
• Vernon: Tyler Clement, Engineering.
• West Dover: Wyatt Shippee, Mathematics.
• West Townshend: Natalie Cullen, Farms, Food and Your Future.
• Westminister: Nolen Donovan, Information Technology; Theo Sutton, Entrepreneurship; Lila Shaw, Arts.
• Windham: Evan Reilly, Information Technology.