East Cobb Students Chosen for Governor's Honors

Students from Lassiter, Pope, Walton and Wheeler high schools have been chosen for the Georgia Governor's Honors Program this summer.

They are among the 86 students selected from the Cobb County School District. Three students from Marietta City Schools also were chosen as part of a group of 690 finalists statewide, out of more than 3,000 applicants.

The Governor's Honors Program, which is administered by the Georgia Department of Education, is a summer residential instructional program designed to provide intellectually gifted and artistically talented high school students challenging and enriching educational opportunities not usually available during the regular school year. 

Activities are designed to provide each participant with opportunities to acquire the skills, knowledge and attitudes to become independent, life-long learners. The Georgia Governor's Honors Program is fully funded by the Georgia General Assembly and operates at no cost to participants.

Here are the students from East Cobb-area schools, and their areas of concentration:

Lassiter High School (9):

• Adrienne Alderman; Biology;
• Spence Jorgensen, French;
• Jason Anderson, Mathematics;
• Zachary Littke-Smith; Mathematics;
• Thai Johnson, Music/Brass (French Horn);
• Jackson Sheu, Music/Woodwinds (Saxophone);
• Erica Cherian, Spanish;
• Max Chambers, Theatre Performance;
• Denavi Patil, Visual Arts.

Pope High School (7):

• Nathaniel Kranz, Architectural Design;
• Gil Tohar, Mathematics;
• James Parker, Music/Percussion;
• Jordan Hale, Social Studies;
• Isabel Ott, Spanish;
• Grace Liu, Visual Arts;
• AnnaMarie Posey, Visual Arts.

Walton High School (9):

• Charles Moore, Communicative Arts;
• Stephanie Niu, Communicative Arts;
• Akash Doshi, Latin;
• Austin Wang, Latin;
• Samuel Marks; Mathematics;
• Sanket Mehta, Mathematics;
• Kushal Shankar, Spanish;
• Monica Machado, Visual Arts;
• Hudson Tsay, Visual Arts.

Wheeler High School (14):

• Philip Kaltman, Biology;
• Timothy Gregg, Chemistry;
• Allison Dupuis, Communicative Arts;
• Rachel Schwartz Wheeler, Communicative Arts;
• Lydia Turnage, Communicative Arts;
• Shruti Kulkarni, French;
• Priscilla Ryan, French;
• Lauren Nguyen, Latin;
• Wenhan Fan, Mathematics;
• Michael Li, Mathematics;
• Camilee Mapua, Music/Voice (Soprano);
• Michael Vobejda, Music/Woodwinds (Saxophone);
• Suborno Chatterjee, Social Studies;
• Aishwarya Rameshkumar, Technology.

Students will arrive on the campus of Valdosta State University on Sunday, June 23. For four weeks, students will 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 the areas is challenging and engaging. Evenings are filled with seminars, activities, concerts, and performances.