27 Students Selected For Governor's Honors Program

CANTON, GA -- More than two dozen students in the Cherokee County School District have been chosen for the competitive Georgia Governor's Honors Program.

Twenty-seven students will take part in the four-week summer instructional program at Berry College.

The initiative, for rising high school juniors and seniors, is designed to provide students with academic, cultural and social enrichment “necessary to become the next generation of global critical thinkers, innovators and leaders.”

Students live and study on the campus in Rome from June 18 to July 15.

Students apply for a specific area of study, and are screened and interviewed locally and at the state level as part of the selection process for the prestigious program.

The district students selected for this honor are:

Cherokee HS

• Lane Cannon - World Languages
• Katherine Johnson - Engineering
• Madison Kucensky - Dance
• Madison Prien - Dance
• Kaitlyn Smith - Music
• Katie Vinterella - Music

Creekview HS

• Elizabeth Andrews - Music

Etowah HS

• John Atwell - Theatre
• Jacob Hootselle -Engineering
• Susan Phetsinghane -World Languages

River Ridge HS

• Julia Boll -Science
• Awo Jama - Communicative Arts
• Carson Kantoris - Science
• Yang River - Science

Sequoyah HS

• Claudia Evans - Agricultural Science
• Patrick Fagan - Music
• Victoria Turk - Theatre
• Corinne Wallick - Music

Woodstock HS

• Nimra Ahmad - World Languages
• Gregory Carroll -Science
• Rachel Heiter -World Languages
• Chloe LeRoy - World Languages
• Maeve Levreault - Dance
• Julia Litrel - Communicative Arts
• Katelyn Provost - Engineering
• Sebastian Russell - Social Studies
• Sasha Stogniy – Science

The students will be recognized by the Cherokee County School Board and superintendent of schools at the board's May 4 meeting.

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