Six middle and high school students from Hancock County, selected to attend the Governor’s Honors Academy, were recognized by the Hancock County Board of Education at Tuesday’s meeting. The students, school and areas of emphasis included: Taryn Arnold, Weir High, Entrepreneurship; Jamie Bissett, Weir High, Tourism; Derrick Bowersox, Oak Glen High, Entrepreneurship; Jackson Phillips, Oak Glen Middle, STEM; Madelynn McKinney, Oak Glen Middle, STEM; Cash McHanan, Oak Glen Middle, STEM.
The West Virginia Governor’s Honors Academy is a three-week summer residential program with a mission to stimulate and support excellence in education for rising high school students who are residents of the State of West Virginia. Approximately 175 academically driven student are chosen through a rigorous application process. The program is funded by the State Legislature as requested by the Governor. State funds provide tuition, room, board and instructional materials for each student on the site of a residential college campus.
As a non-credit program that seeks to create a unique setting for select students. the Academy provides an intellectual atmosphere impossible to sustain in ordinary academic settings. The excitement of intellectual and artistic pursuite and the expectation of significant conceptual gains permeate all aspects of the experience,
The curriculum is designed as a unique supplement to the usual high school curriculum. The program is not an acceleration of high school or an expectancy of college curricula. Students are led to explore cutting-edge theories in the arts and sciences and develop a greater understanding of how art, culture and sciences change with time. Students are challenged to develop rigorous creative and intellectual skills critical to their placement as productive of our communities.
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