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75 Georgia high school students chosen for CNN leadership program

By Wayne Washington
June 19, 2012

CNN Worldwide and 21st Century Leaders will host 75 high school juniors and seniors in the seventh annual Leadership Unplugged: A CNN Experience, a series of training sessions and media skills discussions held from June 25-29 at CNN and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The students were selected from a pool of applicants from across the state.

Students will work in teams on a variety of projects that will be judged by a group of CNN and TBS executives that include Car Azuz, anchor for CNN Student News, Cynthia Hudson, senior vice president and general manager for CNN en Espanol and Jeff Matteson, senior vice president and strategic communications officer for TBS, Inc.

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