Final Project

For our final project we will be visiting WWLR and speaking with members of the radio station. Some of our goals will be to have a story on their fundraiser where they sold t-shirts, a slide show with Natural sound of someone hosting a show in the radio station, and an accompanying map to illustrate the coverage area for the station and a podcast review of one show.

Video Story

Natural Beauty does not go unappreciated, even by the electronically stimulated generation, when you live here in the northeast kingdom.
You may have to look around for them, but there is plenty of beautiful sights right here near Lyndon State College. Places such Burke Mountain, Lake Willoughby, and historic Darling Hill Road may be some of the most beautiful places not only in the area, but in all of Vermont.
LSC students take the time to enjoy these sights while they have the time up here at school.
“I just love the fresh air,” LSC Senior Kyle Gould said. “It’s nice. We don’t have a lot of people and traffic and stuff that creates a lot of poor air quality like you have in cities, so it’s just nice. ”
62% of students here at LSC are from in state. The other 38% may not have been immersed in the Vermont beauty that the northeast kingdom has to offer.
Burke Mountain, located in East Burke, is the northeast kingdom’s very own ski mountain and resort. People from all over the world travel to see the world-renowned trails and resort that LSC students travel to daily during the winter ski and snowboard season.
“I love being able to go to Burke on a fresh powder day,” said LSC Senior Caleb Noble, who hails from Massachusetts. “There’s nobody at the mountain but you. It’s quiet, it’s beautiful, and there’s nobody around and you just kind of be one with yourself. It’s just a beautiful area.”
Along with Burke Mountain, the world famous Kingdom Trails see millions of visitors every year. The trails cover many miles that LSC students get to ride along during the few warm weeks of the fall semester, and the few warm weeks of the spring

NEK Video Project

Project Idea

For our video project, we're going to be creating a video package of the northeast kingdom. Our sound sources are basically going to be wildlife and natural sound. It will also have narration about what students like about the northeast kingdom.

Future Changes to Lyndon

Lyndon State College has many plans to change and improve the campus from what it already is. One of the upcoming additions to Lyndon is that they are reconstructing the old rugby field to create another NCAA regulation field. The reason behind this is NCAA requirements. Lyndon having recently joined the NCAA only last year has yet to meet their requirement of two varsity athletic fields. A varsity field is a field that is proper dimensions that the NCAA requires. Also for the current rugby field to be considered a varsity field it needs to be properly maintained at a varsity level. The rugby field has been ravaged by intramural football and rugby, both sports tend to tear up a lot of grass and create an uneven playing surface that isn’t suitable for all sports. Another issue is that the rugby field doesn’t drain when it rains heavily it tends to pool water and turn to mud. However the college is going to change that to not only meet NCAA requirements but to improve the campus greatly.

Another future project Lyndon has coming is the Solar project. Lyndon has received a grant from the state to install a 5 kilowatt solar power station. The plan developed by Lyndon’s students in the sustainability program will be providing power to the campus in their efforts to be a more green campus.

However this is not Lyndon’s only effort to go green a more noticeable less expensive way that Lyndon is trying to go green is the installation of LED lights around campus. The new lights use less energy than conventional light bulbs on the campus. As well they give off a brighter, cleaner looking light than the traditional lights that are still spotted around campus. The old lights that give off an orange glow that looks less appealing than the new more energy efficient lights they have installed.
Lyndon has made many great changes to the campus in the last few years and there is plenty more great changes to come in the next few years.

Audio Slide Show