Over the years, I have heard that people who grew up on small family farms in northern New England were usually handy in making things do, in times of breakdowns on the farm.  Necessity really was the “mother of invention”, and sometimes that piece of bailing twine, or...

Growing up in our childhood years, each of us has probably had a curiosity about some item that we were interested in.  For some, the curiosity, in terms of “how does this thing work?”, might lead to actually taking the item apart to see all of the pieces inside; proba...

In some of the stories we have heard in this series, there has been a common thread that has helped the particular teacher move through life to the position they now hold at River Bend Career and Technical Center.  In the case of Tony Daniels, the teacher of the 21st C...

If we think back to when we first became interested in our careers, fields of study or occupations, we can probably think of at least one person in our lives, while we were at an early age, who became a real guiding force as to our path in life.  This is true for Carri...

Laura Shrewsbury, the instructor in the Teacher Education program at River Bend Career and Technical Center, has been involved in ballet dancing ever since she was a child.  She moved from early lessons, to ballet recitals to different ballet studios, and even danced w...

Growing up in southern Vermont, Ian Blackmer’s playground was always the woods around his home and in his town.  It was in those woods that he learned about identifying trees, tracking wildlife, fishing, logging, sugaring, and feeling at peace in a natural setting.  Th...

It happens more often than not. Events in our childhood come back to have a positive influence on us as we travel through life.  This is certainly the case for Colleen Ford, Emergency Services, Firefighting and Criminal Justice teacher at River Bend Career and Technica...

What do you do if you have gone to college to become a science teacher, taught science for twelve years, but, at the same time, known that you love to work with all sorts of things like cars, equipment and other mechanical things?  Well, for Carl Hildebrandt, the answe...

Thinking back to his youth, River Bend Career and Technical Center’s Construction Technology and Residential Energy Instructor, Lance Mills, remembers always building “things”!  From tree forts to go-karts, Lance was always into finding scrap lumber and materials and t...

You only need to have a brief conversation with Patti Eaton, Cosmetology Instructor at River Bend Career and Technical Center (RBCTC), in Bradford, Vermont, to know that she is passionate about color, design, beauty, and most of all, the positive side of all people!  P...