News: 33 Loudoun County Public Schools Students Accepted to 2013 Governor's Foreign Language Academies

(July 9, 2013) - Thirty-three Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) students have been invited to the 2013 Governor's Foreign Language Academies in Latin, German, French, Spanish and Japanese.

Since 1987, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) has sponsored Governor's Foreign Language Academies, summer residential programs for Virginia's most motivated and talented foreign language students. The 2013 Governor's Summer Residential Foreign Language Academies will include full-immersion academies in French, German, and Spanish; a partial-immersion Japanese Academy; and a Latin Academy.

The LCPS students invited to these academies include:
French

• Ameera Farooqi, Briar Woods High School 
• Nicolas Freeman, Stone Bridge High School 
• Robert Wang, Broad Run High School 
• Kristine Wright, Broad Run High School 

German

• Thomas Broadwater, John Champe High School 
• Tulika Chaudhary, Broad Run High School 
• Michael Coyle, Stone Bridge High School 
• Matthew Heim, Woodgrove High School 
• Kimberly Herrling, Loudoun Valley High School 
• Benjamin Hughes, Woodgrove High School 
• Zach Mansoor, Park View High School 
• Audrey Newman, Dominion High School 
• Eleni Papadopoulos, Stone Bridge High School 
• John Perales, Loudoun County High School 
• Stephanie Selker, Briar Woods High School 
• Daniel Sheaffer, Dominion High School 

Japanese 

• Charles Freiberg, Loudoun Valley High School 
• Lakshya Ramani, Briar Woods High School 
• Nicholas Vu, Broad Run High School 

Latin 

• Haider Ghumman, Loudoun County High School 
• Gabriella Greiner, Freedom High School 
• Michael Holohan, Briar Woods High School 
• Joseph Konrad, Broad Run High School 
• Christine Olson, Park View High School 
• Kriti Ramakrishnan, Freedom High School 
• Sarah Smith, Stone Bridge High School 

Spanish 

• Allison Babick, Freedom High School 
• Nadia Balabanska, Tuscarora High School 
• Joshua Bicer, Broad Run High School 
• Noah Johnson, Stone Bridge High School 
• Benjamin Kwak, Freedom High School 
• Mikaela Mohardt, John Champe High School 
• William Slook, Loudoun Valley High School