RANDOLPH CENTER, Vt.-- Two Vermont Technical College students have been chosen to receive the school’s annual Engineer and Technician of the Year Awards.

Laura Gover of Shelburne, Vermont, has been named Student Engineer of the Year and Timothy Macke of Calais, Vermont has been chosen as the Student Technician of the Year.

Ms. Gover will graduate this spring with a Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Engineering Technology. Mr. Macke will graduate this spring with an Associate’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Mr. Macke, a member of Phi Theta Kappa, the International Honor Society of the Two Year College, is also a Vermont Society of Engineers Scholar (2009) and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). A former furniture designer, he plans to work in the renewable energy field. Ms. Gover, a former VAST student, has spent the past two summers interning with construction companies in Maryland and Virginia, and is also active with the Central Vermont Humane Society in Barrie.