Eunice High student among those chose for Yale summer program

Eunice High junior Kameron Darbonne is in select company.
He is one of 200 students world-wide selected to attend Yale University’s first Science, Policy, and Innovation session of the Yale Young Global Scholars Program this summer.
Kameron, the son of Kelly Miller, will attend the session at the New Haven, Conn. Ivy League school for two weeks in June.
According to the university, the session will combine cutting edge work in the sciences with a focus on the interaction of policy and science.
Kameron, who’s never before been outside Louisiana, is excited about his selection and is ready to get started on the homework for the June 16-29 camp.
Prior to arriving at Yale,, students are required to do several hundred pages of preparatory reading and during the program will spend the majority of each day in lectures, seminars, and small-group discussions.
Participants also complete a major writing and presentation assignment in which they are asked to collaborate with a team of students.
The academic work in the program is intense and each session covers a wide variety of material in two weeks.
That’s a far cry from Kameron’s “job” last year in the AHEC program at Acadian Medical Center. He says he’ll miss doing that but is amped over the opportunity to go to Yale, joining a very select group.
Last year, according do Yale, more than 1,200 applications were received for its Young Global Scholars Program, with one in five accepted.
Students at Kameron’s session will come from 100 states and countries.
Students last summer had a median total SAT score of 2,200, with median PSAT scores (verbal/writing/math) of 70/68/68.
Kameron, whose school activities include yearbook, Student Council, FBLA and science fair, plans to attend UL-Monroe and study orthodontics.
Fund-raising activities to assist with his expenses are being planned.