Maize Booker, a home-schooled Upper Marlboro student, was recently accepted to Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth’s summer program.

Maize qualified for the program, which is offered to second- through 10th-graders, through the Baltimore university’s CTY Annual Talent Search where applicants take college aptitude exams like the SAT and ACT.

She will take part in a program called ‘The Edible World,’ hosted at Sandy Spring Friends School in Sandy Springs. In it, students look at common groceries through the lenses of chemistry and biotechnology.