GCA's 2023 Hootworthy Valedictorian!

Send us Fan MailGeorgia Cyber Academy (GCA) has many amazing students including Natalia, who recently appeared on the school's podcast, Hootworthy, to share her achievement of earning the title of GCA's Class of 2023 Valedictorian. Natalia spoke about her journey to becoming valedictorian and what it means to her. She highlighted the long nights, dedication, and hard work that paid off to achieve this goal.Aside from being an excellent student, Natalia has a passion foradventure and exploring. She is a certified scuba diver and rates scuba divingas one of the coolest things one can do. She loves to see the diverse marinelife, and her dream is to dive with hundreds of sharks (could be a nightmarefor others). Natalia has already completed 20 dives, including a 94-foot cavedive, and understands the importance of being safe and always diving with abuddy.In addition to her adventurous side, Natalia is an analytical andcreative individual who loves to cook, bake, and write poetry. She even wonfirst place for the school’s MLK peace poem last year. Natalia also enjoystraveling and has already visited several countries including Costa Rica,France, and Italy.Natalia advises other students to explore extracurricularactivities and clubs to discover themselves outside of academics. She amassed60 college credits while in high school through dual enrollment at GCA, and shewill be starting her junior year in college at Georgia Tech in the fall,majoring in industrial engineering and possibly minoring in computer science.Natalia's 5 for 5, five things she wants to accomplish in the nextfive years, includes skydiving, scuba diving, rappelling down a waterfall,wingsuit flying, and hot air balloon riding. She is motivated by her passionfor traveling and wants to visit half of the countries in the world.Natalia is an excellent example of a GCA Champion who representsher 2023 class well as their Valedictorian. Her success is a result of herdedication and hard work. Natalia expressed her gratitude to GCA, Hootworthy,and her amazing dual enrollment counselor, Ms. Rose, and her physical scienceteacher, Ms. Newman, for their support. We cannot wait to see what incrediblethings Natalia will accomplish in the future. Congratulations, Natalia, stayhootworthy!Hootworthy: The Podcast That Gives a HootWe spotlight the students and faculty of GCA and the stories that deserve to be heard.Watch full episodes on YouTube or learn more at georgiacyber.org/hootworthy.Follow, subscribe, and share. Every story deserves a spotlight.