Governor's School Update

Last weekend Tika had her interview/adjudication for the 2008/2009 Virginia Governor's School for Humanities. The program is a 4 week residential program at Christopher Newport University. You can find out all about the program at their website. On Saturday she brought some of her portfolio, including sketches, paintings and sculptures to have them looked at by the people running the program. It was an early morning, she had to be in Winchester by 7:30 for her 8:00 AM appointment.

She was a bit nervous, well actually very nervous, but she handled herself very well. The process involves a timed session where they sketch for 15 minutes. Then they have the adjudicators review that sketch and the rest of their work that they brought. Her work is very good, as you can see in this sketch of Edgar Alan Poe that she did. She will not find out the results for quite a few weeks yet, mid-April, so she will be anxious about it for some time. Having spoken with the people involved in the program it turns out that about 1 in 4 people that make it through their county selection get into the program that Tika is working towards.

We will be keeping our fingers crossed that they see the potential and talent in her that we do.

.... cu