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Students Receive President’s Volunteer Service Awards
This year, Vermont Academy students completed 3,564 hours of community service hours and seven students received the President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA).
The PVSA was founded in 2003 to recognize the importance of volunteer work in the United States. Eligible service denotes unpaid acts of volunteer service benefiting others. The award recognizes U.S. citizens who positively impact communities and encourage others to do the same through their work. Recipients are honored with a commemorative pin, a personalized certificate of achievement, and a letter signed by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
The following students earned this honor this year:
- Gold Award
- Destiny McKinley ’26, 165 hours
- Dane Mulverhill ’24, 251 hours
- Sydney Shaw ’25, 320 hours
- Bronze Award
- Ana Hernandez-Merkle ’25, 130 hours
- Suzanna Lambert ’25, 150 hours
- Lola Rothschild ’25, 100 hours
- Lucas Sinacola ’25, 110 hours
Vermont Academy has an active community service program that requires each student to complete 10 hours of community service every year. Community service projects included local clean-ups, food waste reduction efforts, Cardz for Kidz, the Keene International Festival, Zooniverse research projects, and more.
Please join us in congratulating all of our students for the impact they have made in their community.
Vermont Academy is a coed college preparatory boarding and day school in southern Vermont, serving grades 9-12 plus a postgraduate year.
