{"id":884693,"date":"2026-10-16T19:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884693\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:34:17","slug":"new-book-vending-machine-introduced-for-students-in-rutland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884693\/","title":{"rendered":"New book vending machine introduced for students in Rutland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A unique book vending machine was recently installed at a Rutland City School, encouraging reading and good behavior from students<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynbc5.com\/news-team\/a48418a7-b8df-4381-abf8-31dee2765655\" aria-label=\"Lindsay Jones profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a48418a7-b8df-4381-abf8-31dee2765655_1753995434.jpeg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lindsay Jones\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>RUTLAND, Vt. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A new vending machine at a Rutland City school is introducing a unique reward system for its second-through eighth-grade students.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">This machine, used by Rutland City Public School&#8217;s Allen Street Campus, dispenses books. Teachers are using it to incentivize good behavior from their classes. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Students earn special tokens and deposit them in the machine, which spits out a brand-new book that&#8217;s theirs to keep. Students and staff said it&#8217;s already proven to be an effective motivator.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve had it for a couple of days. The kids have been super excited already, picking out books they want to earn, asking for different books to be put in,&#8221; said Cara Tomasini, who works in Special Education in Rutland. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The school is planning to keep the machine stocked throughout the year, giving students lots of opportunities to earn a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A unique book vending machine was recently installed at a Rutland City School, encouraging reading and good behavior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[31333,127300,223,88,8242,173552,3858,11363],"class_list":["post-884693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-behavior","tag-book-vending-machine","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-reading","tag-rutland","tag-school","tag-student"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}