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Eastbrook student participates in National Young Scholars Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Eastbrook Elementary School student Hannah Pratt has spent this week participating in the National Young Scholars Program at St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington, Va.
The program allows outstanding students in second through fifth grades to explore, invent, learn and think creatively.
Pratt will enter fourth grade in the fall at Eastbrook Elementary. She is the daughter of the Revs. Thom and Melissa Pratt and has a 7-year-old brother, Joshua.
Pratt is also in the Junior Dance Company at Monteia's Academy of Performing Arts and is active in the Teays Valley Church of God in Scott Depot, where her mother is the senior pastor and her father provides Christian counseling through the Horizon Center for Christian Counseling.
"The NYSP provides students with the opportunity to engage in hands-on interactive learning, while challenging them in an intellectually stimulating environment outside of the regular classroom," Dr. Marguerite C. Regan, dean of academic affairs for the program, said in a press release.
This program gives students the chance to further their interest in specific study areas, such as environmental science, architecture, forensic science and medicine. Throughout the program, Pratt and the other students will engage in challenging coursework and gain a greater sense of independence. The program culminates with student-created projects tying in leadership skills learned with the discoveries made in their specific area of study.
Pratt will be in the CSI 1 (Crime Scene Investigators) Forensic Science study group.
"NYSP taps into the natural curiosity that students at this young age already have," Regan said in the press release. "This program will help them continue down a path toward a lifelong love of learning."
NYSP is sponsored by the National Center for Early Academic Excellence, an independent educational organization dedicated to identifying, inspiring and honoring the nation's most promising elementary school students. For more information, visit www.nationalyoungscholars.org.
