I appreciate all the folksthat have sent me ideas for job leads for our many friends affected in the recent resource action. .. Here are a few things I have herd about,
UVM smart grid PhD: UVM has several openings in their smart grid PhD program (http://www.uvm.edu/~cems/igert/) (need to be citizens or green card holders).
K-12 Teaching: there is a local Teacher Apprenticeship Program (TAP), an 8 month program to prepare professionals from other careers to enter a 7-12 classroom. They have an excellent track record of preparing and placing transitioning professionals in Vermont schools. Their upcoming class is close to full, but it’s something to consider. TAP has been based at Chittenden Central SU for the past 10 years but is moving to Champlain College on July 1. One advantage of that is that applicants will have access to federal loans to help with the tuition costs ($10,900 most recently).
Mywebgrocer an excellent locally grown who does online shopping analytics had 17 positions open as of last week. I suspect that they’re goign fast.
UTAS in Vergennes s lookign for an RF engineer The description is “Specific responsibilities include antenna design, wireless component evaluation and selection, RF circuit design, signal propagation characterization, link budget analysis, spectrum sharing and coexistence analyses. Good sense of practical implementation of RF systems and board-level design skills are essential. An ability to quickly prototype, test and modify new solutions is highly desired.” There are also several links here.
Dealer.Com I’ve heard second had that they have soem positions open.. but have not verified
Also.. just found these in the Tech Jam News from Seven Days
Last Saturday was the MMU graduation.. Gabe’s a junior, but many of his friends graduated. Somehow Gabe . long wiht his friend Marina were elected as class marshals.. which i think means they had two responsibilities.. first they had to host the ‘senior superlatives’ event at MMU last Thursday night. which . I heard it was pretty funny. Second, they had to herd the seniors through the graduation ceremony .. There were a couple of great pictures in the Freepress on Sunday and wanted to share them..
Here are Gabe and Marina leading the seniors into the room.
Here’s a beautiful pic of Gabes gf and our good friend Raya .. she didnt know they were taking the pic..
There’s a long tradition of someone wearing the tie die gown. this year it was our friend Burke..
Great seeing all these friends graduate.. can’t believe that Gabe is a senior now
Happy birthday Maxwell Cohn.. You are one of the most interesting , creative and unique people I’ve ever met. Iam very proud to be your dad…
I can’t tell you ho w much I enjoy collaborating on projectsnow. You have a holisting view of things that I’ve never had. I so enjoy the oppertunity to make things with someone whom I helped make.
Thansk for being a great kid, a great frined. and great collaborator. and a great mento..
Happy Fathers day folks. Just been talking to my dad.. the guy who taught me how it’s done. Also want to send a shout out to my Father in law Gabe.. the man who taught me the importance of English measure in the machine shop.
This fathering thing is good work. I really enjoy it. I’m not sure how good I am at it.. but it the job i enjoy most in life. This is what it’s all about.I’m proud ot be the papa of three great boys.. I’m so proud of them all.. .
We had a pretty low key fathers day here.. the big event was moving a piano.. We’re making a family TV room.. (aka ‘man cave’) downstairs and the piano had to move.. We rented a piano dolly which was actually fun to use..
With the piano out of the way.. we had to try out the new room .. Gabe and I did the best thing we knew to consecrate the room.. We watched the most heartwarming and educational thing we could think of: . Trailer Park poys. Season4.. Episode ‘Conky’..
Hope All you dads out there had a similarly satisfactory day !
