Four students each from Hartford High School and Randolph Union High School brought home college scholarships from Vermont Technical College’s second annual Bridge Building Competition.
The Hartford quartet of Karen Cross, Khant Thu, Connor Chandler and Jake Farewell tied for first place in the high school division of the contest with Randolph’s Rafe Sauer, Tori Palmer, Nichole Huntley and Shay Young. Each young engineer qualified for a scholarship of $2,000 to attend Vermont Tech, which maintains campuses in Randolph Center and Williston.
In the middle school division, the Woodstock Elementary School team of sixth-graders Ian Goldberg, Evan Kurash and Nixon Malik finished second to a team of Rutland-area home-schoolers.
Three students from Hanover High School and one from The Sharon Academy have received $2,500 each toward their college educations, through the National Merit Scholarship program.
Harry Jacobs of Etna, Justin Chen of Hanover and Felix Herron of Hanover made the grade among New Hampshire’s 14 merit scholars, out of the more than 1.5 million high school juniors nationwide who took the preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test as juniors in the fall of 2014.
Christopher Gish, of Sharon, a senior at The Sharon Academy, is one of the five Vermont students who made it through the merit-scholar selection process.
Patricia Halpin of Sunapee recently received the 2016 Presidents’ Good Steward Award from Campus Compact for New Hampshire, for her community-outreach work as an assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of New Hampshire-Manchester. The award cites Halpin’s efforts, through the American Physiological Society’s Physiology Understanding program (which goes by the acronym PhUn), to help Manchester middle school and high school students to design and put to work an experiment in exercise physiology.
The Oxbow High School Drama Club presents the children’s play Beanstalk! at the high school auditorium on Sunday afternoon at 2. The 45-minute, one-act play is an adaptation by Ross Mihalko and Donna Swift of the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale. Admission is by donation.
The Clara Martin Center’s youth advisory board is inviting teens and young adults to a “youth summit” on substance abuse and mental health at the Listen Center’s facility in White River Junction on Friday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Area social service agencies will have booths offering information about substance abuse treatment and prevention options, and speakers will address topics such as cyberbullying, in addition to substance abuse and stigmas surrounding young people struggling with mental health issues. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call 802-222-4477, extension 118, or email hking@claramartin.org.
The Upper Valley Counselors Association of Vermont and New Hampshire is inviting area high school students with a knack for art to bring examples of their creations to the association’s inaugural portfolio day at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Representatives of college art programs will be on hand to look over student portfolios and offer feedback and advice, as well as to outline post-secondary opportunities. For more information, email Ellen Bagnato at ebagnato@sharonacademy.net.
The Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs recently certified for 10 years Colby-Sawyer College’s bachelor’s-degree programs in business administration and health-care management.
David Corriveau can be reached at dcorriveau@vnews.com and at 603-727-3304. Education-related news also can be sent to schoolnotes@vnews.com.