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This is an awesome story!! 

California Virtual Academy student, Christine L., won a $96,000 Heritage Scholarship at LeTourneau University in Texas to pursue her dream of becoming a civil engineer. With only 8 scholarships available, Christine competed with 88 other candidates, including 53 high school valedictorians, by participating in group sessions, interviews and writing an essay.

Wait until you read this story about Tennessee Virtual Academy, Davis F., and how he outscored most of the other college teams at the recent Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Southeastern competition.

Out of the 54 teams competing in the competition, only Florida A&M-Florida State University College of Engineering, University of Alabama and Mississippi State scored higher than this fifth grader! 

His impressive robot he named "davibot" took a week to create and was completely autonomous to meet the competition's requirements.  

Whenever I talk to people about online education, I usually start off by explaining that there is no such thing as a typical student or one common reason families choose it as their educational solution. The reasons families choose online education is as varied as there are days in a year, which is  why I share so many of our students' stories -- so you can see for yourself how diverse they are and how having the online education option available can help kids reach their goals. 

Meet Allison H., a California Virtual Academy (CAVA) high school student and erhu artist. An erhu is an ancient Chinese instrument known in the Western world as the "Chinese violin" or a "Chinese two-stringed fiddle". 

At 16 years old, she is the only non-Chinese player in the Strings and Bamboo Orchestra.

Welcome to this special series on the thinktanK¹² blog, where you can meet students, parents, and educators who are discovering the power of learning with K¹².

Gigi LeMaire is a very talented—and very busy—teenager. For over two years, she’s been one of the stars of the hit TV show “The Wannabes.” And since she was seven years old, she’s been a member of teen pop group Savvy. Starting last February, Gigi has also been enrolled in online private schooling via K¹² International Academy. This month, she graduated to ninth grade.

Prior to K¹², Gigi’s family tried other approaches to balancing her education and budding career, including traditional public school as well as homeschooling through a regional university program. We recently spoke with Gigi and her mother Christine—who founded and manages Savvy—about why they changed to K¹², and how their first year has been going.