Governor's Honors Academy Students Participate in Day of Service

About 200 Governor’s Honors Academy students participated in a Day of Service on Friday, July 8.

From 1:30 to 4 p.m. Friday, July 8, the high school juniors volunteered on the Fairmont State University campus, with the City of Fairmont and with local non-profit agencies and community service organizations. Organizations students assisted included the following: Marion County Senior Center, Marion County Public Library System, Sobrania Soup Opera, Disability Action Center, Learning Options, The Nest Student Food Bank, HOPE Inc., Make Marion County Shine, Tygart Center, Westside Action Coalition, Oliver Park. Students on campus created cards for people in the hospital and made dog treats for the local animal shelter.

The students are participating in the three-week residential program administered by the West Virginia Department of Education and the Arts, which also assists with in-kind support. The Academy began June 26 and ends July 16.

In 1984, Gov. John D. Rockefeller started West Virginia’s first Governor’s School, the West Virginia Governor’s Honors Academy. GHA is a project born of a partnership among education, business leaders and state government. It is designed to stimulate and support excellence in education through a three-week residential summer program, which is provided without cost to 200 of the state’s top achieving rising high school seniors.

The mission of the academy is to operate an academically rich environment designed for high ability/high achieving students in an institution of higher education, challenging them to grow intellectually, creatively and socially in a culturally diverse atmosphere.

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