News: 67 Loudoun County Public Schools Students Attending Governor's School

(July 9, 2013) - Sixty-seven Loudoun County Public Schools students are attending the 2013 Governor's School program, an intensive four-week educational experience for gifted students that takes place during July on college and university campuses throughout Virginia. 

The Governor's School provides rising juniors and seniors with a program of intensive instruction in visual and performing arts, engineering, humanities, mathematics, science and technology, agriculture, and life sciences and medicine.

The 67 students were selected for the Summer Residential Governor's School program in the fall of 2012. 

Students are encouraged to apply for the intensive program by mid-October. A student may apply for both academic and performing arts placement, but must accept only one program if both are offered. Only rising high school juniors and seniors are eligible to apply for the highly sought after spots. 

The visual and performing arts selection process requires participation in Virginia Department of Education-sponsored adjudications. Student applications are reviewed by the student's high school, which then submits a set number of applications to the school division. The school division must then review and score the applications. The division is limited in the number of applications it may submit to the state. The Virginia Department of Education makes the final decision on selection of students admitted to the Summer Residential Governor's School. 

There are two mentorship programs (at the NASA/Langley Research Center and Marine Science) associated with the Governor's School. These programs offer individualized student assignment to one or more researchers/graduate students, or engineers at the two sites. Selection is based on the match between mentors available during a specific summer and the skills, interests and experiences of the individual student. 

LCPS students who will attend the Summer Residential Governor's School (with home high school and Governor's School program attended) are: 

Agriculture 

• David Adams, Loudoun County High School 
• George Armstrong, Tuscarora High School 
• Adib Choudhury, Freedom High School 
• Harsha Dindigal, John Champe High School 
• Abhishek Goriparthi, Briar Woods High School 
• Christina Hunter, Broad Run High School 
• Alexandra Lord,Loudoun County High School 
• Catherine Messerly, Dominion High School 
• Milin Patel, Briar Woods High School 
• Sydney Shepherd, Dominion High School 
• Arthur Shune, Dominion High School 
• Lana Vaillancourt, Loudoun Valley High School 
• Connor Votroubek, Broad Run High School 
• Kamran Waterman, Freedom High School 

Art 

• Susannah Agi, Freedom High School 
• Rebecca McHale, Tuscarora High School Julia Yin, Dominion High School 

Dance 

• Erin Coakley, Freedom High School 
• Paige Ensminger, Stone Bridge High School 
• Hannah Jennens, Broad Run High School 
• Shannon Richard, Broad Run High School 

Enginnering/NASA 

• Olivia Landgrover, Briar Woods High School 

Humanities 

• Emma Battle, Loudoun Valley High School 
• Rebecca Doody, Broad Run High School 
• Timothy Hahn, Freedom High School 
• Ana Gonzalez-Hernandez, Broad Run High School 
• Shivani Ghulati, Briar Woods High School 
• Anna Noteboom, Briar Woods High School 
• Neha Onteeru, Potomac Falls High School 
• Barbara Regan, Woodgrove High School 
• Yasaswini Dandu, Briar Woods High School 

Instrumental 

• Bae Eunwoo, Briar Woods High School 
• Dor Friedman, Dominion High School 
• Maryam Hajialigol, Potomac Falls High School 
• Shreya Maini, Briar Woods High School 
• Joseph Pazanowski, Broad Run High School 

Life Science & Medicine 

• Jasmine Malhi, Heritage High School 
• Meghna Sharma, Briar Woods High School 

Math, Science & Technology 

• Daanish Ahmed, Tuscarora High School 
• Rehan Baddeliyanage, Dominion High School 
• Priya Chandrashekar, Broad Run High School 
• Forrest Cinelli, Loudoun Valley High School 
• Colm Gallagher, Broad Run High School 
• Neha Goswami, Potomac Falls High School 
• Puneet Gupta, Briar Woods High School 
• Sean Haliyur, John Champe High School 
• Benjamin Kellogg, Loudoun Valley High School 
• Sarah Morgan, Loudoun Valley High School 
• Bethany Mosher, Briar Woods High School 
• Manisha Nannapaneni, Briar Woods High School 
• Hema Narlapati, Briar Woods High School 
• Varun Patel, Briar Woods High School 
• Meghana Pannala, Freedom High School 
• Alexis Payne, Broad Run High School 
• Toshali Randev, Briar Woods High School 
• Rianna Shah, Stone Bridge High School 
• Ronak Shah, Briar Woods High School 
• Katie Shen, Dominion High School 
• Saloni Singh, Briar Woods High School 
• Josh Ting, Briar Woods High School 
• Kendrick Umstattd,Loudoun County High School 
• Gabrielle Wolfe, Loudoun Valley High School 
• Sarah Yang, Dominion High School 

Theater 

• Jessica Littman, Heritage High School 

Vocal 

• Stephen Coakley, Tuscarora High School 
• Vinny Okechukwu, Heritage High School 
• Gargi Sundaram, Broad Run High School