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2025 Transition & Career Planning Conference

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Still Curious: Learning for the Long Game

The 20th Annual Transition and Career Planning Conference, hosted by VSAC's Vermont State GEAR UP program in partnership with the Vermont Agency of Education, and sponsored by the J.

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