 Hello everyone I'm Emily Anderson and I'm here with the bridging program which is part of Champlain Community Services and it is comprised of students from five area high schools and that large group of 14 students has been broken into three smaller groups and I'm here with one of them today. Hello Anthony my name is Edward. Our group's name is Team Mountain Calvary Sergeant Joe. Awesome welcome. What name is Emma? Would you like to share your name with the with the audience? Yeah we're thinking about a lot of things. What is your name do you want to share that with the audience out there? Nova. Beautiful. Well that's what he has to say. I only did. Oh I didn't hear you. Edward started off. So this year I challenged the students on September 19th when we were all here with Kathy Resmer who created the Good Citizen Challenge to all take parts of this challenge this year and make a TV show about it. So this group has been doing some pretty great research and today we'll each be sharing what they worked on and I think we're gonna do it one by one so we're gonna snap everybody away. Well here I am with you Noah and you're gonna share your three challenges. But first I was wondering if you would share something that you really wanted to make sure ended up in the show. Could you share your sneaker? Yep. Okay hold it up high it's got these great yeah it's got these great what would you say flashing lights? Yeah. Awesome great sneaks it's nice to know they're they're shimmering away on the set. Thank you. Would you like to share so you have three you did two big challenges and one small one. Would you like to share and you created a visual piece? Yep. Good Citizen Challenge. I took a virtual tour for Taekwondo. I learned about the Revolutionary War and how ships would come into Lake Shimflane and the canyons would fire at the ships. Awesome so that was the first challenge this is your second one do you want to read it? I researched and read a story from the Colchester Sun. It was about a trout program that allows trout to be raised in the classroom. The teachers can use the fish to teach the kids about math, science, art, and so much more. So that was your big challenge and this is your small challenge. Do you want to read this one? Okay. I also learned about the Vermont estate motto which is freedom and unity. The motto was first adopted in 1788 for you some the great seal of the Vermont Republic. I'm designed the Vermont seal and is often credited as its author. Awesome that's great what do you like about this seal? What do you see in it? What's that? Yeah what do you think that is? Yeah. Do you like this seal? Yes. How it looks. Can you imagine drawing something like that? I wish. You wish? Yeah I think you would I would think you would make a really great seal. Anything you want to say to the Vermont the CCTV audience? Do you want to? I also learned about the Vermont estate motto which is freedom and unity. The motto was first adopted in 1788 for you some the great seal of the Vermont Republic. I'm designed the Vermont seal and is often credited as its author. I think that's a great thing to give a little extra emphasis to. Mm-hmm. Noah thank you for taking the challenge. You're welcome. Do you want to snap in the next person with me? Yep. So I'm here with Pascal who did two really fun citizen challenges and I love that they include her artwork. She's an amazing illustrator and I think they're they're gonna come up on the screen but just in case they don't I'll hold them up. But do you want to share the first one? Here is a comic strip of the three branches of government by Mike Kalev. So your challenge was was to make a comic strip about the government and I love that you found one and you also created your own version of it so I'll hold that up when you tell what it is. The first branch of government is called legislative. That's right here. The second branch of government is judicial. The third branch of government is Fox and Friends. The punchline of the comic. Beautiful. Anything you like and what's your favorite part of this picture and it might be nothing at all but I love your version of it. Ready to move on to the next one? Okay. This is a beautiful portrait you've created. Here is a picture of Phyllis Wheatley. She was one of the best known poets in pre-19th century America. She started writing poetry at the age of 13. She was also one of the first African American poets to be published in the United States. Beautiful. Beautiful portrait, Pascal. Thank you so much for the great work that you did on the Citizen Challenge. You ready to snap in the next person? Awesome. Hello, Edward. So great to have you here to share your work on the Good Citizen Challenge. What did you work on? I worked on a Fina war. And was there a certain reason that you did that? My dad was in Fina war. So it has a real personal significance for you. Yeah. You wearing his hat? Yeah. Awesome. Great. And you you created a beautiful piece of writing. Yeah. Would you like to share it? Yeah. Fina war was a bad war. Fina war started in November 1st, 1955. And in October 30th, 1975. Death and Fina war for U.S. military was 200,000. For Fina war is 200,000 to 1,500,000. Some came home alive. Some came home in the box with the fight on the box. Some people didn't come back from the war. They did not did it anymore. They did it herself. That's it. I love that you spent some time working on that. You found some great photographs. Yeah. Over at the Burnham Memorial Library where all of you did your great research. Is there anything else you'd like to share? That's it. That's it. One thing I love is that I know you live so close to the studio. I think that's cool that you have a public access station right here so close to you. So whenever you want to share something like this that's really important to you. You have this opportunity if you want. Any final words to the audience out there? Nope. You're good? Yeah. All right. We'll see you in a moment. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Edward. And here I am with Emma. So Emma, you worked on three challenges. Yeah. And two were big. One was small. I think it was your small one, the first one. The share your work. I know some of it isn't finished because you had a doctor's appointment on Monday so you couldn't do the artwork part of it. But your research is amazing. So I look forward to sharing it. I research on one of them is called Vermont State Model. Freedom and Unity is the official model of the U.S. State of Vermont. The model was first adopted in 1788 for use or the great seal of the Vermont Republic. Ira Allen designed the Vermont seal and is often created as its author. Yeah. And so we saw the seal and Noah's piece. So I love that you both worked on this. So we got both of your input on this. And your next challenge. What was the challenge around voting? What did you want to do? Make a poster on voting. So people should picture a poster with these words on it or these images. Yeah. Okay. The title is called You Should Vote. You should vote for people who want to be equal or to be treated equal. You should vote for fair laws. You need to be at the age of 18 to vote. Awesome. It's inspirational. And it gives some guidelines too. Great. I love it. I can't wait to see it. What color do you think will be there? What colors do you want to have in your poster? What do you picture when you picture it right now? Pink and purple. I thought you might say that. I love that. Okay. And then your last one. I can't wait to see the final product on this one. What was your last challenge? My last challenge was to write a poem on U.S. Were you going to do a specific kind of poem? A Haiku poem. And a Haiku doesn't have a lot of words in it, right? It's sort of very specific. So I love that you have a lot of information and it'll get reduced down into just the right words to say this. What did you want to share? The U.S. is the fourth largest country. U.S. customs more petroleum than any other country in the world. The U.S. is a country located in North America. The country has a population of over 325 million, making it the third most populous populous in the world. Awesome. So those are a lot of big thoughts, but the cool thing about a Haiku is it can hold really big thoughts, but share them in a really short, concise way. So I look forward to that. That's a great challenge. Anything else you want to say? No. Okay. You're ready to call the rest of the Green Mountain Travelers on the go back? Yes. Okay. So I want to thank all of you for taking the Good Citizen Challenge. Noah, excellent work. Pascal, excellent work. Edward, excellent work. Emma, excellent work. And we all want to thank the audience out here. Thank you very much. I'll give a wave. And we have one final word from Edward. Excellent work, everybody.