Six Floyd County Sophomores and Juniors Named Governor’s Honors State Semi-Finalists

Six students from Floyd County Schools (FCS) have been chosen as state semi-finalists and will move forward in the Governor’s Honors Program (GHP) selection process.

Congratulations to the following 6 state semi-finalists for GHP. They will represent FCS in the next level of competition.

Robert Brown, AHS junior, Mathematics

William Hosford, MHS junior, Music: Jazz/Drums

Caroline Looney, MHS junior, Visual Arts

Alicia Miranda, MHS junior, Social Studies

Avi Singh, MHS junior, Science: Biology/Environmental Science

Tobias Swanagan, MHS sophomore, Mathematics

GHP is a four-week summer instructional program that offers intellectually gifted and artistically talented high school students rigorous and enriching educational experiences not typically available during the regular school year. Six Floyd County Schools sophomores and juniors were selected through the state-level online application process to represent FCS in the in-person GHP interviews. Interviews will be held at Georgia Southern University on March 1, for all areas except Music, which will take place at Kennesaw State University on March 14.

GHP will take place on the campus of Georgia Southern University this summer. Rising juniors and seniors in Georgia public and private high schools are eligible to be nominated by their teachers to participate in the program. The program is fully funded by the Georgia General Assembly, so there is no charge for students to attend. For four weeks, students spend the morning in their major area of nomination, exploring topics not usually found in the regular high school classroom.

During the afternoons, students choose one of the other areas in which to study. The curriculum in all areas is challenging and engaging. Evenings are filled with seminars, activities, concerts, and performances.

Each applicant must go through a very extensive selection process to be invited to participate in the program. Transcripts of grades and records, nomination forms, endorsements, and other pertinent information are submitted to substantiate the nominations and the students must interview with a local screening committee.

Major instructional areas are agricultural research, biotechnology and science, communicative arts, computer science, dance, engineering, mathematics, music, science, social studies, theatre performance, visual arts, and world languages. Students also select a minor area outside their major area of study. These include all the major instructional areas as well as additional offerings that reflect the interests and abilities of the instructional staff.