Twenty-one students from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools have been selected for the 2008 Governor’s School of North Carolina.
Students selected from Carrboro High School are Aidan Burns-Fulkeron, natural science; Kenneth Jjombwe, drama; Jonathan Kylstra, natural science; Jamie Luca, art; Cassandra McMillan, social science; and Ian Thomas, art.
Chapel Hill High School students selected for Governor’s School are Sarah Anderson, natural science; Shawn Kuruganti, choral music; Elizabeth McManus, choral music; Natalie Parks, natural science; William Wignall, instrumental music; and Mindy Yuan, instrumental music.
Students selected from East Chapel Hill High School are Michaela Dwyer, dance; Mary Houston, English; Arthur Kim, mathematics; Charmaine Mutucumarana, French; Benjamin Palmer, drama; Charlotte Pate, drama; Joseph Shea, drama; Regina Strayhorn, drama; and Sunnay You, English.
The Governor’s School is the oldest statewide summer residential program for academically or intellectually gifted high school students in the nation. The program is open to rising seniors and is located at Salem College in Winston-Salem and at Meredith College in Raleigh. More than 800 students statewide were selected to attend.