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able green building, and the barriers to making aspects of green building available and affordable for lower-income housing. The energy in the environmental department was exciting and encouraging to me as a student. What did you do after college and before returning to GUS?
From Student to Teacher: Alex Levin ’03 Returns to GUS Alex Levin, GUS ’03, returned to campus this past fall as a new Grade 6 and 8 science teacher. He arrived full of fond memories of his time as a student and with fresh ideas in his new role as a GUS educator.
You majored in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. What encouraged you to pursue that line of study? What did you focus on within that field?
After college, I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. For four years, I split time working in SLC during the winter months and Rockport, MA during the summertime. I spent four summers directing the youth sailing program at Sandy Bay Yacht Club in Rockport, working with an awesome team of sailors and outdoor enthusiasts/educators. From 2015-2017, I also coached the sailing team at Middlebury College, where we competed in 25-30 races during the academic year, traveling to Florida, California, and all New England states to compete against some of the strongest college sailors in the country. After leaving Middlebury, I enrolled in a Master’s in Education program through Lesley University. The program included student teaching at Berwick Academy in Maine, where I gained valuable classroom teaching experience from devoted, skilled, and dedicated middle school teachers. After I completed my Master’s in Ed, I
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t UVM, my primary area of education was Environmental Studies with a focus on Green Building and Community Design. I chose UVM because I knew the school had a strong environmental program and I wanted to learn about green building strategies and energy efficient building design. For my senior thesis, I researched common restrictions to afford-
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Levin, with members of upper school mountain bike club this fall.
