Governor's Honors Program
The Governor's Honors Program or GHP is a state-funded, six-week-long summer residential program designed to provide intellectual and artistic high school students differentiated educational opportunities not usually available during the regular school year. It is open to students in the state of Georgia.
Students are nominated by their high school faculty for excellence within a particular subject. Students then compete against each other to attend the program. The "competition" consists of a series of interviews which culminate at the state level. About 700 students are selected annually to participate in the program.
For the last 25 years, Valdosta State University has hosted GHP.
While attending, students have a 'major' (the subject in which the student was nominated) and a 'minor' (an area of study the student selects once arriving at GHP).
Major areas include, among others, mathematics, communicative arts, foreign languages, executive management, and technology. The minor areas are picked from the major areas.