Seventeen-year-old Lindsay Hickman of Myrtle Beach will be able to do it all when classes begin in late August – travel to Georgia and Florida, keep up with her Web design business, take classes at Horry-Georgetown Technical College and finish classes for her high school diploma.
She is one of more than 80 students from the Myrtle Beach area enrolled in the state’s newest online charter school for high school students, Provost Academy South Carolina.
“I love technology, I love being able to have the convenience of being at Starbucks and being able to do my math,” Hickman said. “I travel a lot and so it’s just a lot easier to do this.”
This week, officials will send letters to verify addresses so they can mail laptops and printers to the students.
Provost Academy, which will admit 1,000 students for the 2009-2010 school year, has already enrolled 835 students. Ten percent of them live in Horry and Georgetown counties.
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