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About The Governor’s School for the Arts
About The Governor’s School for the Arts
Located in Norfolk, VA.
The Governor’s School for the Arts provides pre-professional, individualized, and focused instructional programs in dance, instrumental and vocal music, musical theater, theater, and visual arts for students with a high degree of artistic talent and potential for growth
Students take academic courses at their regular high schools in the morning and attend the Governor’s School for the Arts in the afternoon for three hours daily during the regular academic year.
Classes may be individualized lessons, small or large group instruction, or rehearsals. The average class size is 12 students.
Students may earn four credits for each year they attend the Governor’s School for the Arts. These courses are given honors weight. Students earn four (4) credits per year.
The school division provides tuition and transports students between the schools and the Governor’s School for the Arts only.
Application Process:
Application Process:
Interested students, in grades 8-11, must complete an application for an audition.
Applications: https://www.gsarts.org/admissions
Applicants who pass the audition must provide teacher references and additional forms for review.
Students who are accepted by the Governor’s School for the Arts should carefully weigh all options and discuss them with their parents. While this specialized training represents outstanding opportunities for aspiring artists, it may also lead to difficult choices. Some course options within the home school will be precluded by the scheduling demands of the Governor’s School for the Arts.
About The Governor’s School for Science and Technology
About The Governor’s School for Science and Technology
Located in Hampton, VA
Two-year, half-day program for 11th and 12th grade students. In total, students will spend approximately 3 hours at the Governor’s School, taking three courses each year during the two-year program.
Admission is highly competitive and based on previous math and science course selection and grades, teacher recommendations, and standardized achievement scores.
Students accepted to attend the Governor’s School for Science and Technology will be expected to enroll in one of the following designated strands: engineering, biological science, or scientific programming.
Each strand requires completion of one year high school biology, one year of high school chemistry, and Algebra II/Trig prior to admission. For the engineering strand, students must have successfully completed Math Analysis (Pre-Calculus) prior to admission.
All strands encompass a math course during both the junior and senior year. Placement in the appropriate math course will be determined upon admission at the end of the 10th grade.
In addition, each strand will foster research through a Research Methods and Ethics course the junior year and an Honors Research and Mentorship placement the senior year.
The Isle of Wight County School Division purchases slots in this regional program in an effort to expand educational offerings for eligible students in the 11th and 12th grades. The school division provides tuition and transports students between the schools and the Governor's School for Science and Technology only.
The Engineering Strand:
The Engineering Strand:
Provides an intense, rigorous study of fundamental principles of engineering and calculus-based physics.
Building a robot, constructing a fuel cell, and then proceeding to on-line technology that studies air-bag deployment principles in automobiles are just a few of the engineering activities students experience in the course.
Senior Year: The ideas of Maxwell and Hawking are studied during the senior year. Understanding the physics behind such inventions as the TV, computers, and magnetic resonance imaging technology round out the senior year. Senior Year includes the study of modern physics exploring relativity, quantum mechanics, and nuclear physics.
The Biological Science Strand:
The Biological Science Strand:
Provides insights into organic and inorganic chemistry in conjunction with cell and molecular biology by employing advanced technologies utilized in medicine, forensic science, and research labs.
An advanced level understanding of biology and chemistry sets the stage for senior students to argue controversial topics concerning the environment.
Analyze water quality and biodiversity during monthly sampling of a nearby pond.
Extensive field work and laboratory analysis generates a nine-month database for a more comprehensive understanding of our local environment.
The Scientific Programming Strand:
The Scientific Programming Strand:
Provides a detailed study of the fundamental concepts of Computer Science (using Java) and non-calculus based physics.
In the junior year, students study the fundamentals of object-oriented programming, Newtonian mechanics and thermodynamics.
The senior year will provide an exhaustive study of data structures, algorithms and simulations of continuous and discrete systems.
Prospective Student Pipeline:
Prospective Student Pipeline:
https://nhrec.org/gsst/home/how-to-apply/information-for-prospective-students/
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