Busy day at both a vermont AI task force And the Vermont Academy of science and engineering ( vase) annual fall meeting. That was in Middleberry. It was an extraordinarily beautiful drive down. Leaves are near peak in many places.

The vase meeting Begin with some recognition advance. I was able toAward the two teachers of the year awards. The first was to Josh Patraquin of Saint Michael’s Academy in Brattleboro.. And the second was to Carley Brown of Harwood Union high school. Giving these awards is one of my favorite jobs as the out reach coordinator for vase

We also had a special recognition last night… One of our own… Mark Nelson became a member of the national Academy of science… Which is very high honor for any scientist.

Our annual speaker was Dr. Michael Gilmour of Harvard… He’s a good friend of our president Grace. He gave a wonderful talk on antibiotics and the rise of anabiotic resistant bacteria. It was fun and scary at the same time

From there we went over to the alumni house for a lovely dinner. Before dinner the Middlebury women’s choir gave us a few acappella numbers. They were so great!

After dinner a few more talks… And recognitions. Here are our three national Academy members

And then two really nice talks from our teacher of the year awardees… Carly and Josh

Before the meal and Grace asked the folks from the kitchen and serving help to come out. As always we have been treated so well and the food was wonderful

It’s an hour drive home from there… And it was pouring rain… I don’t know why but it was quite peaceful.

Now onto another day

Nite all, nite sam

-me