Two Chillicothe High School students attended prestigious Missouri state-sponsored academies this summer which have been funded by the Missouri legislature for many decades.
Adi Edds, an incoming junior, traveled to the MU Campus for the three-week immersive Missouri Scholars Academy. They spent three weeks with college professors where they studied a major and a minor. Edds described the experience, “During my major, I started a novel, read college-level writing, and learned many new concepts of the English language. In my minor, I started a real journalism project that could change lives. This project will continue until November.” She explained how she benefited from the program.
Learned a lot about what she wants to do in the future.
Incoming senior Kierra Williams was one of only 125 students whose artwork was chosen for the Missouri Fine Arts Academy to participate in a two-week immersive art program that allowed her to focus on her visual art skills, but she also got to take additional electives that included drama and music, which were all taught by university professors and professional artists. Williams wrote, “The classes I had were Art as Equity, which focused on using the arts to promote justice and equity, Flatpack Sculptures, a class about creating sculptures out of flat shapes, Diction for Dummies, which was about diction and learning IPA (the International Phonetic Alphabet), and Improvisation in Music, a class focusing on musical improv.
Williams says the art camp was an amazing experience, where she learned a ton of new things and met a bunch of super cool people.