Everybody Wins! Vermont is looking for adults to read once a week with students in grades two through five in Tunbridge, West Fairlee and Chelsea.

The nonprofit mentorship program pairs individual readers with individual students for an hour at lunchtime. Tunbridge Central School, Westshire Elementary School in West Fairlee and Chelsea Public School are among 26 participating institutions, including Hartford’s White River School and Claremont’s Bluff Elementary.

To learn more, visit everybodywinsvermont.org or reach out to Courtney Brockett, Everybody Wins’ Orange County coordinator, at 802-229-2665 or at courtney@everybodywinsvermont.org.

The Write Stuff

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is inviting Vermont high school students to write essays for his annual State of the Union contest.

Wednesday is the deadline to enter the contest, in which the writers are asked to describe, in 250 to 500 words, the problems they believe are the most pressing facing the United States and how they would go about solving them. To learn more, visit sanders.senate.gov, call 800-339-9834 or email katarina_lisaius@sanders.senate.gov.

The Congressional Record will archive the essays of the finalists. In 2018, Woodstock Union High School student Maggie Parker placed first among 585 contributors with her essay on the importance of protecting the rights of LGBTQ citizens.

Home Schooling

The Upper Valley Classical Community is inviting parents who home school their children to two events in January, showcasing the community’s weekly, Christianity-oriented Classical Conversations classes.

The introductions begin on Jan. 16 at 3 p.m., with an informational meeting at Valley Bible Church in White River Junction.

The following Wednesday, Jan. 23, at the church, Classical Conversations will host an open house where families can visit the weekly classes. The lessons, presentations and scientific experiments at those classes are aimed, according to the national organization’s website, at “teaching parents and students the classical tools of learning so that they can discover God’s created order and beauty and — as a result— enable others to do the same.”

To learn more about the gatherings, reach out to Linda Armstrong by emailing armstrong_linda@yahoo.com or calling 907-232-8839. For more information about the program, visit classicalconversations.com.

Musical Scholars

Seven violin students from the Upper Valley Music Center (UVMC) performed Antonin Dvorak’s Humoresque and a traditional arrangement of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star during the inauguration of New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu last week.

UVMC executive director Benjamin van Vliet conducted the ensemble, composed of Etna resident David Viazmenski, West Lebanon’s Shaya Kiridena, Hanover residents Aria Deeb, Mya Veracka and Adele Pikus, Andover, N.H.’s Oliver Andrews and East Ryegate, Vt., resident Gabrielle Anzalone.

■Hanover resident Daniel Wilson sang with the men’s glee club during the annual Christmas festival of the Wheaton (Ill.) College Conservatory of Music. Wilson, a 2017 graduate of Hanover High School, performed as a tenor.

Collegiate Recognition

Enfield resident Mhairi and Springfield, Vt.’s Zekiel Cammarata earned spots on the dean’s list at Elmira College for their academic performance during the fall 2018 semester at the upstate New York school.

■Woodstock resident Ryan McLiverty was named to the dean’s list at Salve Regina University for the fall 2018 semester. A junior majoring in international justice, he will spend the spring 2019 semester at Salzburg College in Austria.

■With a perfect grade-point average of 4.0, Sharon resident Madisyn Demana earned a place on the president’s list at Coastal Carolina College during the fall 2018 semester. Demara is majoring in early childhood education at the Conway, S.C., school.

■ Charlestown resident Jane Beck was named to Bob Jones University’s president’s list, for her academic achievement during the fall 2018 semester. Beck is majoring in junior elementary education at the Greeneville, S.C., school.

■Springfield, Vt., resident Ainsley Bertone made the grade for the dean’s list at Nazareth College during the fall 2018 semester at the Syracuse, N.Y., school. Bertone is majoring in musical theater.

High School Achievers

Teachers at Lebanon High School recently named senior Lorraine Zaki as the school’s student of the month.

In addition to her classroom work and attitude, the faculty pointed to Zaki’s outside initiative, including a summer internship with a Dartmouth professor researching the Hipp Chronoscope, a 19th- and early 20th-century medical device.

■Hanover resident Sarah Miller earned a place on the high honors list for the fall 2018 semester at the independent Pomfret School in Connecticut.

David Corriveau can be reached at dcorriveau@vnews.com and at 603-727-3304. Education news also can be sent to schoolnotes@vnews.com.