Amanda Locke nominated for consideration at SOU’s pre-college youth program.

Amanda Locke has an outstanding record of academic achievement. She has achieved straight A’s throughout her life in school, save for the occasional B in mathematics. At the age of 11, she tested “post high school” on all subjects save one on SAT testing, and was recently nominated for consideration at Southern Oregon University’s pre-college youth program for talented and highly able students. She has now been accepted, and is seeking sponsorship for tuition. The total cost of the one week residential program, being held this June, is $625.00

Amanda was sent a list of classes that will be offered at SOU during her time there, with instructions to check all the classes she’d like to see in her schedule. Her top three choices are “Junior Chefs”, which will be taught by Culinary Institute-Le Cordon Bleu Graduate Chef Marilyn Moore, a theater improv class called “Shakespeare Shenanigans,” and a class on American law, which isn’t surprising as she has always shown strong interest in court proceedings. Her reading choices from the age of five almost always included books on constitutional law, court proceedings, and the American justice system.

While most of her time is dedicated to school work, Amanda also has an interest in vegetable gardening and has recently taken some time out to help in her family’s small garden plot in a local community garden. A large portion of the harvest will go to local food shelters. She also spends some of her spare time drawing and painting, and is especially talented at drawing wildlife images.

If you’d like to help this young lady with part of the tuition costs, checks may be sent directly to the college, made out to SOU Pre-College Programs and clearly writing Amanda Locke-Deng on the reference line. The mailing address is as follows:

Southern Oregon University/ACADEMY
Pre-College Youth Program
1250 Siskiyou Blvd
Ashland, OR 97520

As Amanda and her family will need to keep track of the sponsors and amounts given, please follow this up with a short note to mandifizz@gmail.com , being sure to include contact information where she can send you a personal update after she completes ACADEMY.

If you wish to sponsor her but would rather present it to her in person, please use the above email address to make arrangements for this. - Gina Locke