Twenty Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students have earned college- and university-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the latest round of awards from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Each sponsoring college or university selected scholarship winners from among the finalists in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program. These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

The winners, their sponsoring university or college, and their intended career fields are:

Montgomery Blair High School

Eileen Luo
Vanderbilt University
Probable career field: Computer Science

Solomon N. Ucko
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Programming

Eric X. Wang
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science

Jonah M. Witte
Rochester Institute of Technology
Probable career field: Computer Science

Charles Wajda-Gotwals
University of Alabama
Probable career field: Law

Winston Churchill High School

Ilayda Dogan
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science

Jason L. Liu
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science

Kevin Qi
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Economics

Nathaniel L. Wu
Stony Brook University
Probable career field: Dentistry

Richard Montgomery High School

Matthew J. Gu
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Undecided

Finna Y. Hsu
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Public Policy

Gwendolyn J. Taylor
Fordham University
Probable career field: Law

Poolesville High School

Shubham Bhatnagar
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science

Miranda L. Wang
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Medicine

Roc G. Yu
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Programming

Sherwood High School

Matan C. Meltzer
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Engineering

Walt Whitman High School

Benjamin J. Waterman
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Psychology

Thomas S. Wootton High School

Grace L. Chen
University of Montana
Probable career field: Wildlife Conservation

Jackson J. Rankin
Carleton College
Probable career field: Academia

Stacy K. Sun
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science