PBS Reno Spotlight
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Student | The VC Silver Circuits
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The VC Silver Circuits, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards
The VC Silver Circuits is an award-winning robotics team that uses the skills they've learned while building robots to make a positive impact in their community and beyond. They engineered a hot air balloon wheelchair costume to spread joy to a local teen, designed a CANstruction structure to fight hunger with the Northern Nevada Food Bank, and taught STEM to underprivileged youth in Africa.
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2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Student | The VC Silver Circuits
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The VC Silver Circuits is an award-winning robotics team that uses the skills they've learned while building robots to make a positive impact in their community and beyond. They engineered a hot air balloon wheelchair costume to spread joy to a local teen, designed a CANstruction structure to fight hunger with the Northern Nevada Food Bank, and taught STEM to underprivileged youth in Africa.
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- Voting is now open for the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards & Heres one finalist: - The Virginia City Silver Circu FIRST Tech Challenge robotics te In addition to building robots, we got to design a custom hot ai costume for a little girl named and we had a team member deliver STEM kits to kids in Africa to help teach STEM to everyone i world, not just in our local com - Go to pbsreno.org to vote week through July 31st.
Winners will be announced Septem at the Grand Sierra Resort!
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Clip: S2025 | 7m 9s | Special messages from friends and family for Par and Jill Tolles (7m 9s)
2025 Extraordinary Philanthropists of the Year
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Clip: S2025 | 14m 41s | PBS Reno honored Par and Jill Tolles as the 2025 Extraordinary Philanthropists of the Year. (14m 41s)
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2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Student | Hailey Annis
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | Hailey Annis, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Student | Ameerah Mapp
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | Ameerah Mapp, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Individual | Derek Beauvais
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | Derek Beauvais, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Individual | Debbie Smith
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | Debbie Smith, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Individual | Becky Hall
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | Becky Hall, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Educator| Roni Green
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | Roni Green, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Educator| Katie Rossi
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | Katie Rossi, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Educator| Gilbert Lenz
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | Gilbert Lenz, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Community | RennerVation Foundation
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | RennerVation Foundation, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Community | Northern Nevada Children’s Cancer Foundation
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | Northern Nevada Children’s Cancer Foundation, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Community | Nevada Women’s Fund
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | Nevada Women’s Fund, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Business | Microsoft
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | Microsoft, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Business | Helix Electric
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | Helix Electric, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
2025 Spotlight Award Finalist | Business | Coffee N’ Comics
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Clip: S2025 | 30s | Coffee N’ Comics, a finalist in the 2025 PBS Reno Spotlight Awards (30s)
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