A Successful Year For BRVGS Students and Staff

As the school year comes to a close, we want to congratulate the many Blue Ridge Virtual Governor’s School students and staff members who have earned achievements, awards, scholarships, and recognitions this year. We are extremely proud of their hard work, commitment to teaching and learning, contributions, and excellence!  A few examples of student and staff accomplishments include:

• Virginia Burleson - Louisa County High School - Received a full scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania.
• Rowan Dell DeRonde - Invited to participate in the Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars program Summer Academy at NASA
• Chynna Hatton - Received George Mason's University Scholar Scholarship, which includes full tuition, a $1,000 stipend, and admittance to the Honors Program.
• Lauren Haynes - Madison County High School - Received nearly full-tuition scholarship to Drexel University.
• Aubrey Kinser - William Monroe High School - Received the McDermott Scholarship at the University of Texas at Dallas (an estimated $140,000, which includes full tuition, cohort travel, study abroad, etc). Aubrey is also a National Merit Finalist and received a scholarship of $750 yearly for four years.
• Hannah Mawyer - Orange County High School - Attending Summer Residential Governor’s School for Math, Science, and Technology.
• Caleb Snyder - Louisa County High School - Attending Summer Residential Governor's School at Radford this summer.
• Jesse Stowe - Nelson County High School - Attending Summer Residential Governor’s School NASA program.

• Kirsten Dexter - William Monroe High School, Biotechnology Teacher - Greene Education Foundation Teacher of the Year Award recipient ($1,000 and awards ceremony recognition).

A fuller list of student and staff accomplishments can be found listed by going to “2011-12 Student/Staff Achievements”.

We also want to acknowledge our BRVGS Seniors for a stellar job on their independent projects, presentations, internships, and Exposition displays and interactions. Judges and visitors alike were impressed with the quality of the projects, and students’ knowledge of their subject matter. Photos of the Senior Expo can be viewed by going to the “Gallery” link on the menu bar above.

BRVGS Senior Exposition

The BRVGS Senior Exposition will be held on Friday, May 11th, at the Taylor Educational Administration Complex at 200 Daliey Dr., Orange VA, from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM.   This event is a showcase and celebration for our BRVGS seniors, all of whom have completed an internship, research and community service project on a topic of their choice during their senior year.  Topics this year range from Nanotechnology and Engineering to Music Therapy and Photography.  The event is open to the public.  Please contact BRVGS Director Marc Carraway at mcarraway@brvgs.k12.va.us or by phone at 434-989-3972 for additional details.  

BRVGS Freshmen Orientation Summer 2012

Parents of incoming BRVGS freshmen students for the 2012-13 school should receive a letter this week or next with details regarding the June 19th BRVGS Freshman Orientation.  The letters were inadvertently sent out without transportation schedules and parent permission forms.  We will be sending out an additional letter with that information, and apologize for any confusion or inconvenience in regard to this.  Please contact BRVGS Director Marc Carraway at mcarraway@brvgs.k12.va.us, or by phone at 434-989-3972, for any questions regarding the Orientation.  We are looking forward to meeting our incoming freshmen for the 2012 school year!  

BRVGS Gears up for Spring Activities

While most BRVGS schools are on Spring Break this week, students and staff are gearing up for end-of-year activities. Seniors at Fluvanna and Madison County High Schools have already formally presented the results of their internship, research and community service projects, and seniors from the five other BRVGS districts will do the same over the next few weeks.   In addition, all BRVGS Seniors will come together to display their learning and accomplishments at the BRVGS Senior Expo at the Orange County School Board office building on May 11th.

Computer Math students from five member schools will present and market their team-based programming projects in May. Biotechnology students will present the results of their Arabidopsis experiments to scientists from Virginia Tech on April 18th, and World History students will debate the ethics of technology on April 25th and 26th. To see the full list of BRVGS spring events, please click on BRVGS Upcoming Events.

BRVGS Senior Speaks at PVCC

BRVGS senior Alexandria Johnson from Nelson County, spoke at the PVCC Career Day with her project mentor, Melissa Hutchinson of the Wintergreen Nature Foundation.  To see what Alexandria spoke about, check out her Senior Project website!