Over the weekend, 150 students from 17 schools all over Vermont competed for a chance to take their Lego robots to a championship round in New Hampshire next month. Two Burlington police officers are back on the job after one of them shot and killed a man when he refused to put down a shovel he was brandishing. Private school for emotionally challenged kids in Bennington joins with town to rehab a local park pavilion.
Melody is the Contributing Editor for But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids and the co-author of two But Why books with Jane Lindholm.
A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.
