Students Qualified for Duke Talent Identification Program
Fifty-eight students at Athens Academy, 81% of the seventh grade, recently qualified for the Duke University Talent Identification Program. Qualification required scores at or above the 95th percentile on verbal or mathematical sections of nationally-normed tests approved by Duke's program for academically gifted students.
Athens Academy students who have qualified for the Duke Talent Search this year are: Harry Alex, Wrenica Archibald, Mary Banister, Jamella Banks, Ross Batzer, Sara Beisswenger, Layal Bishara, PJ Blaesing, Dylan Brock, Nick Brown, Blake Callaway, Carie Cartwright, Judy Choi, Sarah Chuboff, Alejandro Clark, Emily Cox, Hannah Crane, Deeva Desai, Jennifer Dorfman, Muhammad Doukmak, Savannah Duan, Madison Eberhardt, Tom Greene, Emmeline Hale, Mitchell Hardman, Alex Haver, Charlotte Hawkins, Cora Hill, Steven Hix, Anna Justice, Katie Kenerly, Abby Knight, Joshua Kundert-Gibbs, Braden Lapp, John Layher, Christian Lee, Robert Leverett, Paul Linck, Laney Mallet, Mason Mallory, Daniel Malone, Lyndey McCurry, Chloe McWilliams, Paul Moldoveanu, Torie Owers, Alex Pate, Aneet Patel, Shane Patel, Natalie Ray, Will Seagraves, Elizabeth Sinyard, Robert Slocumbe, Kelsie Smith, Evan Splichal, Karishma Sriram, Maggie Stein, David Tian, and Kellen Yarbrough.
The Talent Identification Program was established in 1980 to identify bright students and to enable gifted and talented programs to help these students develop their abilities. The program's talent search involves students from 16 southern, southwestern, and mid-western states. It is one of four university-based talent searches that combine to cover the entire United States.
Students who qualified will take the SAT or ACT college admissions tests. The seventh graders who perform exceptionally well on one of these tests are invited to attend summer programs at Duke. In addition, the higher scoring students are invited to a state recognition ceremony.