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Hall Co. announces Governor's Honors Program semifinalists

By AccessWDUN staff
Posted 7:30AM on Sunday 29th January 2017 ( 7 years ago )
Thirty-one Hall County School District students have been selected as semifinalists for the Governor’s Honors Program.
 
The GHP is a residential summer program for gifted and talented high school juniors and seniors. Managed by the Governor’s Office for Student Achievement, it will take place this year at Berry College in Rome. The 2017 program will be the 54th summer, making it the longest continually running program of its kind in the nation.
 
According to a news release from the school district, public and private high schools across the state nominated over 3,200 students who represent the "best of the best" in eleven areas of study: Agricultural Science, Communicative Arts, Dance, Engineering, Mathematics, Music, Science, Social Studies, Theatre, Visual Arts and World Languages. Of these, less than 1,700 were selected as semifinalists and will be interviewed and auditioned on February 25. Approximately 650 finalists, one-fourth of one percent of eligible sophomores and juniors in the state, will be chosen to participate in this year's program. Since the program is fully funded by the Georgia General Assembly, there is no charge for students to attend.
 
During the four weeks of the program, students spend the morning in their major area of nomination, exploring topics not usually found in the high school classroom. In the afternoons, students choose one of the other areas in which to study. Evenings are filled with seminars, activities, concerts and performances.
 
Dr. Sally Krisel, Hall County’s Director of Innovative and Advanced Programs, said, “GHP is such a prestigious program that even being nominated at the school level is a tremendous accomplishment. I congratulate all of the outstanding students who were nominated. I know these 31 Semifinalists will represent the district well at the statewide interviews.”  
 
The Hall County semifinalists are:
 
Name     Nomination Area      School   
 
Victoria Clendenning Communicative Arts Johnson High School   
Clyde Kelly Communicative Arts Johnson High School   
Sydney Yancey Communicative Arts Johnson High School   
Kristen Wedegis Dance Chestatee High School   
Lindsey Sewell Dance North Hall High School   
Nathan Greene Engineering North Hall High School   
Alexis Smith Mathematics Johnson High School   
Maximiliano Hernandez Mathematics North Hall High School   
Georgia Warnock Mathematics West Hall High School   
Gracyn Potter Music North Hall High School   
Gabriel Ezeta Music West Hall High School   
Madison Cottrell Science Chestatee High School   
Dahlia Galvez Science Chestatee High School   
Owen Ozaki Science Chestatee High School   
Amanda Laidlaw Science Flowery Branch High School   
Melanie Valencia Science Flowery Branch High School   
Vanessa Nunez Science West Hall High School   
Noah Merck Social Studies Chestatee High School   
Jonathan Walls Social Studies Flowery Branch High School   
Britney Bales Social Studies Flowery Branch High School   
Eleanor Luciani Social Studies Flowery Branch High School   
Samuel Corbett-Rogacki Social Studies Johnson High School   
Luke Derusha Social Studies Johnson High School   
Jordan Battle Social Studies North Hall High School   
Tristan Prather Theatre East Hall High School   
Veronica Nash Theatre Johnson High School   
Kathrin Merritt World Languages Flowery Branch High School   
Helene Hand World Languages Johnson High School   
Nathan Moore World Languages North Hall High School   
Georgia Tran World Languages West Hall High School   
Katherine Burchfield World Languages West Hall High School  

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