The Challenge Team representing Legal Services Law Line of Vermont and Vermont Legal Aid raised $3,125, making it the top fundraising team in the business category at the 25th Annual COTS Walk to benefit the Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS). The event was held May 4. “The Law Line and Vermont Legal Aid Challenge Team was amazing,” wrote Gillian Taylor, COTS Community Outreach and Volunteer Specialist, in a late June letter announcing the results. “You were our top fundraising team among all business teams participating.

July 1, 2014 marked the 20th year that James Heltz and his wife Grace have owned Green Mountain Video, Inc, a production & post-production company in Williston, Vermont. GMV was established in 1983. James joined GMV as director & editor in 1985. Then in 1994 Grace & James bought Green Mountain Video from Tony & Mike Villanti.

Maggie Eppstein, chair of computer science (CS) at the University of Vermont, was recently awarded a competitive $650K 5-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), as part of the new NSF S-STEM program (Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). This S-STEM scholarship project will address the significant shortage of computer scientists, both in Vermont and at the national level. The project will increase the number and diversity of well-educated, skilled employees in computer science.