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Achievements of our School District

District Highlights for 2024-2025 School Year 

• Implemented year-long anti-racist professional learning communities for teachers and administrators.
• Offered a series of virtual Equity Workshops with student student panelists. Topics included:
  “Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in Schools,” “HHB Interventions and Prevention,” and the “Restorative Code of Conduct.”
• Created a series of hybrid Disability Advocacy Workshops for students, staff, and families.
• BTC Digital Media Lab seniors Mohammed AlMulla and Sammy Bluestein from BHS were hired as social media content creators 41st Annual Burlington Discover Jazz Fest.
• BTC Aviation and Aerospace students won all three top spots at the SkillsUSA aviation maintenance
  competition. Congrats Sean Edgar Jackson (1st), Ethan Bergeron (2nd), and Wyatt Saborowski (3rd)!
• Kennedy Desautels tied for 3rd in the Vermont Brain Bee Competition!
• Record Breaker – On October 27, 2023, Brooks Deshaw scored two first-half goals (56 & 57) in a quarterfinal soccer playoff matchup to surpass the all-time district record for most career goals scored, regardless of gender!
• The BHS Boys Volleyball Team won the State Championship for the third year in a row!
• The BHS Boys Volleyball Team won the State Championship for the third year in a row!
• BHS Peer Mediators Victoria Tornwini, Esther Lokossou, and Lincoln Saffron presented at the Education Justice Coalition Conference in front of over 20 Vermont educators, community partners, and activists.
• We celebrated National Girls & Women in Sports Day with a Signing Day ceremony for five student-athletes committed to playing at the next level: Congrats to Rukiya Awayle (SUNY Delhi; Basketball), Brooks DeShaw (Middlebury College; Soccer), Elsa Sanborn (Bates College; Nordic Ski), Amelia Dion (Smith College; Soccer and Track & Field) and Gillian Fairfax (Bowdoin College, Nordic Ski).
• March’s Vermont Public Student Composer Showcase features Ellery Mitchell, a seventh grader at HMS. Ellery’s piece “Endless Words” premiered at MusicCOMP’s Opus 37 concert in May of 2023.
• SeaLakers cooperative Girls Hockey team defeated 1 BFA St. Albans 3-2 to claim the D1 State Championship, its first in the history of the 10-year cooperative program!
• IAA partnered with Bread and Puppet to create a play with 4th and 5th graders, which was performed for our community.
• EMS students Dani and Melany crushed the Speed Demon EV Challenge, building an electric vehicle in 10 days: 3D print the wheels, laser cut the chassis, install axles with bearings, and wire a motor, 2 LED lights, and a switch!
• The EMS “Math Counts” team placed first at the Northwest Chapter Mathcounts Competition and second place at States! Congratulations Bernadette Caldwell, Xavier “Tank” Chandler, Britta Fitzgerald and Maelyn Slavik, on an outstanding performance! Noteworthy performances in the Countdown Round at States included: Tank Chandler, Kaz Skalka and Maelyn Slavik all competed, with Tank taking second place overall. Both Tank (1st place Individual) and Kaz (3rd place Individual) represented Vermont at Nationals!