Annabelle Webb
Annabelle Webb, a junior at Northern Vance High School, has been selected to attend the prestigious Governor’s School of North Carolina this summer.
She will attend the six-week residential program on the campus of Salem College in Winston-Salem. Her major focus of study will be social science. Her participation in Governor’s School will begin the latter part of June and extend through July.
The Governor’s School of North Carolina is a summer residential program for intellectually gifted high school students, integrating academic disciplines, the art, and unique courses on each of two campuses. The curriculum focuses on the exploration of the most recent ideas and concepts in each discipline and does not involve credit, tests or grades.
The Governor’s School is the oldest statewide summer residential program for academically 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 performing/visual arts areas, is located on two campuses of up to 325 students each: Governor’s School West at Salem College in Winston-Salem (begun in 1963) and Governor’s School East at Meredith College in Raleigh (begun in 1978). The program is administered by the Public Schools of North Carolina, the State Board of Education and the Department of Public Instruction through the Exceptional Children Division. A Board of Governors, appointed by the State Board of Education, acts as an advisory body.
Webb was nominated for Governor’s School by Northern Vance High and Vance County Schools. She is the only student who will be attending the prestigious program this summer from Vance County.
Webb is serving as a page this week in the N.C. Senate. She is the daughter of Larry and Elaine Webb of Henderson.