2008 gov’s school selections announced
Eight hundred North Carolina rising high school juniors and seniors have been selected to attend the 2008 Governor’s School, a six-week summer program for academically or intellectually gifted students. To read more, please go to the NCDPI Web site and click on the appropriate link under “News.”
Congratulation to the 3 young men from SVHS selected to attend North Carolina School of Science and Math beginning next school term, Antavious Ashe, Anson Webb-Lewis, and Lenair Lett !!!!
Comment by EBW — April 17, 2008 @ 11:30 am
Congrats on that! That is awesome news! I knew we had talented youth in our community. Now, if they will just bring those talents back to our community in the form of teachers. Are there any incentive programs in place to lure back such brilliant minds to our community?
Comment by bloggerella — April 17, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
I think it wonderful that three young men got into the School of Science and Math, but it concerns me that this article is about Governor’s School. My quick glance of the list of this year’s scholars shows that only two are from Vance County: Sharif S. Brooks in Math and Gregory D. Grissom in English. Congratulations to them both.
As recently as four years ago, Vance County routinely got four nominations in the academic fields (Math, English, Social Sciences, Natural Science and Foreign Languages), plus as many more as could qualifiy in the fine arts (Art, Band, Chorus, Drama).
Did the schools not nominate as many candidates this year? Or is Vance County getting the short end of the stick (again)?
Comment by Nick Long — April 17, 2008 @ 2:04 pm
There were no kids from the south’s new mini-Harvard, KVA? HMMMMM
Comment by HMMMMM — April 17, 2008 @ 2:24 pm
Give them a Henderson to be proud of and they will return. There really is no place like home once you venture out in the world. Some people never had a place to call home. I didn’t, until I came to NC forty years ago. I’ve lived in the big cities both east and west and purposely elected to find a small town to be my new home. I was once just a western farmer’s son. I’ve seen the world since then and have a deep conviction that the small towns of America are totally necessary and could be self supporting in a real sense.
Comment by Stranger — April 17, 2008 @ 3:40 pm