Seven 10th-grade Greenville County students from J.L. Mann High School have begun the three-year virtual Accelerate program at the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science & Mathematics (GSSM)
The program is designed to help high school students jump-start engineering degrees and careers.
Ethan Coppenbarger, Michael Cox, Cole Curran, Tres Key, Milan Shah, Rob Smith and Jon-Luc Tourigny represent Greenville County in the Accelerate class of 2017.
The number of schools and students participating in Accelerate will increase annually, with plans under way to invite students in Spartanburg School Districts 5, 6 and 7, Darlington County School District and Berkeley County School District in fall 2015.
Accelerate allows students a path toward earning as many as 32 semester hours of college credit during the last three years of high school. Students will remain in their home high schools, with virtual courses taught by GSSM and Clemson University faculty.
