Riverwood Students Named Semifinalists For Governor's Honors Program

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Riverwood International Charter School on Tuesday said seven of its students have reached the semi-finals round of the Governor’s Honors Program.

The semi-finalists include:

• Clara Bensimon, visual arts;
• Harris Cohen, theatre;
• Gedalya Feingold, communicative arts;
• Arthur Miltner, jazz: trombone;
• Eliza Paprin, communicative arts;
• Benjamin Soran, social studies; and
• Carolyn Wright, voice: Soprano.

Georgia Governor’s Honors Program is a residential summer program for gifted and talented high school students who will be rising juniors and seniors during the program.

The program offers instruction that is significantly different from the typical high school classroom and that is designed to provide students with academic, cultural, and social enrichment necessary to become the next generation of global critical thinkers, innovators and leaders.

Those attending GHP are nominated by teachers, and then must pass two rigorous interviews and/or auditions. Less than 1 percent of Georgia’s high school students qualify for this honor.

GHP semi-finalists will be interviewed for an opportunity to become a finalist, and possibly be selected as a 2016 GHP summer scholar.

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Photo: Riverwood’s GHP semifinalists: (back row, L to R) Ben Soran, Harris Cohen, Arthur Miltner; (middle row, L to R) Clara Bensimon, Eliza Paprin; (front) Gedalya Feingold; (not pictured) Carolyn Wright. Credit: Riverwood International Charter School