This summer, several exceptional Western students attended Governor's School. The Western Hemisphere interviewed Mrs. Padron, Meg Richey, and Maygan Reynolds. Before the start of the summer the Western Hemisphere interviewed the students attending Governor’s School .

Every year Mrs. Padron, the WAHS Governor’s School representative, accepts applications for Governor’s School. Typically, students go to Humanities, Math, Science & Technology, and Visual & Performing Arts. But occasionally she gets applications to Governor’s School for Health & Medical Sciences, NASA, and Agriculture.

Mrs.Padron explained, “They are for students who have a real passion for those subjects and people really love it, they say it’s like the best thing ever!” …show more content…
But they don't want to leave I think the people are their favorite parts followed by getting to study things they're passionate about.”

Over the summer, junior Meg Richey attended Governor’s School for Math, Technology, and Science. Richey’s main class was Order of Magnitude Physics which she found very fascinating and in a second-chance class she learned about credit card fraud and hacking. Richey had many favorite parts but Richey’s absolute favorite was, “Having those friendships that were challenging, and stimulating and make you think a lot.”

Richey said, “It was great, having kids that are interested in the same thing I am was a really awesome experience and I was really blessed having met so many people I could relate to at an intellectual level. You could be walking along and you would overhear somebody talking about something and people would come up and be like ‘oh I’ve done this really cool thing’. These conversations would just flow out and they were so engaging!”

Richey explained, “If I could do it again I totally would, oh my god, I would totally do it