More than students will represent local high schools at the 2025 Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs, Governor’s Scholars Program, and Governor’s School for the Arts.
Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs
According to the Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs website, GSE identifies and enables Kentucky high school students to become our Commonwealth’s next generation of entrepreneurs.
Through a three-week residential experience at Northern Kentucky University, GSE participants are equipped with the tools and skills to create and build their own businesses, are introduced to Kentucky’s most successful entrepreneurs and fastest-growing businesses, and are matched with complementary, skilled peers to develop business plans and product or service prototypes. The annual GSE intensive program culminates in a pitch competition attended by a large audience representing Kentucky’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Students accepted are:
- Srimayi Galla, Apollo
- Jonathon Parker, Daviess County
- Isabella Sloan, Owensboro Catholic
Governor’s Scholars Program
The Governor’s Scholars Program is a residential summer program for Kentucky’s most outstanding students as they complete their junior year of high school. This program provides academic and leadership growth in a challenging, non-traditional experience that balances a strong liberal arts program with a full co-curricular and residential life experience. According to the GSP website, the program’s mission is to enhance Kentucky’s next generation of civic and economic leaders, engaging over 1,000 students each summer.
Students accepted are:
- Asher Alvery, Apollo
- William Berry, Apollo
- Alexandria Board, Apollo
- Erin McManus, Apollo
- Alex Ocasio, Apollo
- Morgan Shook, Apollo
- Maya Foster, Daviess County
- Amy Meffert, Daviess County
- Rachel Moran, Daviess County
- Mallory Raines, Daviess County
- Ellie Rue, Daviess County
- Alexa Salamah, Daviess County
- Katherine Tillman, Daviess County
- Christian Boswell, Daviess County
- Jonah Cecil, Daviess County
- Benjamin Watkins, Daviess County
- Savannah Bellamy, Owensboro
- Macy Critchelow, Owensboro
- Abigail Ladwig, Owensboro
- Caroline Smith, Owensboro
- Ellison Storm, Owensboro
- Maxwell Baur, Owensboro
- Samuel Busse, Owensboro
- Andrew Johnson, Owensboro
- Khoa Ta, Owensboro
- Christopher Traylor, Owensboro
- Grace Calhoun, Owensboro Catholic
- Lucia Guido, Owensboro Catholic
- Elizabeth Ray, Owensboro Catholic
- Isabella Sloan, Owensboro Catholic
Governor’s School for the Arts
The Governor’s School for the Arts provides three weeks of intensive instruction for promising young high school students in nine different arts disciplines: architecture and design, creative writing, dance, drama, film and photography, instrumental music, musical theatre, visual art, and vocal music.
According to the GSA website, these students will be immersed in a rigorous schedule of daily seminars, master classes, lectures, hands-on workshops, and field trips. While each student specializes in one art form, all students participate in structured, interdisciplinary arts experiences designed to familiarize them with the joys and challenges of specialties other than their own.
Students accepted are:
- Dance
- Elizabeth Ray, Owensboro Catholic
- Design
- Ryleigh Wyatt, Daviess County
- Drama
- William Berry, Apollo
- Blaize Free, Apollo
- Film and photography
- William French, Apollo
- Katherine Mason, Daviess County
- Instrumental Music
- Matthew Smith, Owensboro
- Musical theatre
- Ballard Branham, Apollo
- Lucy Jagoe Chaney, Owensboro
