Nineteen I-SS students selected to attend N.C. Governor’s School

Posted on by Mike Fuhrman

I-SS officials recognized students who were selected to attend the N.C. Governor’s School for 2024.

BY KARISSA MILLER

Each summer, a group of academically and intellectually gifted students from across the state are selected to further their studies on a college campus by attending the Governor’s School of North Carolina.

Nineteen Iredell-Statesville Schools students have been chosen to participate in the 2024 session of the Governor’s Schools of North Carolina, in subjects ranging from mathematics to Visual Arts.

This year’s students are:
• Peyton Seldomridge (Natural Science)
• Devin Rinberg-Choral (Music Tenor I)
• Liberty Prince (Instrumental Music Clarinet)
• Anushka Mummadavarapu (Natural Science)
• Mahil Manoaharan (Mathematics)
• Rylan Barker (Mathematics)
• Josiah Smith (Natural Science)
• Christopher Corona-Plancarte (Social Science)
• Hunter Tan (Choral Music Bass 2)
• Ryder Reynolds (Spanish)
• Jaira Pyrant (Natural Science)
• Mary Miller (Natural Science)
• Haasini Majeti (Mathematics)
• Marabel Ivey (Choral Music Soprano I)
• Hannah Honig (Dance)
• Narayani Garg (Mathematics)
• Indu Gadiraju (Mathematics)
• Nachammai Annamalai (Mathematics)
• Jacqueline Maglente (Natural Science)

Application criteria include grade point average, essay scores, recommendations, evidence of extracurricular activities, leadership roles, and community service, and, in the areas of performing/visual arts, audition scores.

According to I-SS Director of Gifted, IB and Online Learning Kelly Hinson, less than 1 percent of all N.C. high school students advance to statewide consideration.

Nineteen of the 45 students from I-SS who advanced to the state level of selection were invited to attend the 2024 session of N.C. Governor’s School.

“Nineteen is the highest number I can find being selected from Iredell-Statesville Schools. This is a very strong group,” Hinson said.

About N.C. Governor’s School

N.C. Governor’s School is the oldest statewide summer residential program for academically and/or intellectually gifted high school students in the nation. The program, which is open to rising seniors only, with exceptions made for rising juniors in selected areas of performing and visual arts, is located on two campuses: Governor’s School West at High Point University in High Point, begun in 1963, and Governor’s School East at Meredith College in Raleigh, begun in 1978.