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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do they teach? [/quote]
 
Your student can apply to attend a Governor's School for a month that has the subjects they are interested.  There are:
Agriculture (Virginia Tech): 100 slots
Science, Math, and Technology (Lynchburg): 160 slots
Humanities (Radford):150 slots
[b]Medicine & Health Sciences (VCU): 26 slots [/b]
Engineering (CNU & NASA) :12 slots
Marine Science (CNU & VIMS): 6 slots
Visual and Performing Arts (Radford): 250 (Separate allocations based on discipline)

There are also World Language Academies @ Washington & Lee in Japanese, German, Spanish, French, and Latin.  
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Just to confirm my understanding, there are only 26 Medicine & Health Sciences slots available state-wide? Does anyone have a sense of how many apply?[/quote]

Yes, the science ones are TINY (Marine Science only has 6). This is because the kids are actually paired with professors' labs, and there's a very limited number of those.[/quote]
I did a marine science VA governor's school in the 90s and it was one of the best experiences of my life.  We stayed on an island in the Chesapeake Bay and would go out with marine scientists on a fishing boat or in kayaks to gather and study wildlife.  We set crab traps and hauled them in to study the sea floor.  We kayaked at night to gather bioluminescent plankton.  We fished and dissected the contents of their stomachs.  It was so so neat.

I heard recently that they closed the island we stayed on because it was sinking with rising sea levels from global warming.  So sad because it was an absolutely spectacular location.  [/quote]

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