Twenty MCPS students from five high schools have been awarded National Merit scholarships by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).

These students are among 44 Maryland high school seniors selected from a pool of more than 15,000 finalists to receive a one-time award of $2,500 for post-secondary education.

The NMSC was established in 1955 to honor scholastically talented youth and encourage academic excellence at all levels of education. The majority of scholarships are underwritten by about 280 independent corporate and college sponsors.

The 2025 MCPS scholarship recipients, their schools and probable career fields are:

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School 

• Quinn C. Parker, Neurosurgery

Montgomery Blair High School

• Asher Elias Anantha, Film Production
• Nikhita Bhatt, Law
• Evelyn Goldi, Medicine
• Matthew Nam, Engineering
• Shriyan Reyya, Computer Science
• Jason Youm, Physics
• Stephen Zhang, Computer Science

Richard Montgomery High School

• Sujit Hegde, Molecular Biology
• Yash G. Maniar, Finance
• Zidane Sheng, Public Health
• Caroline Zhou, Finance

Poolesville High School

• Alexander J. Aniya, Biomedicine
• Jaden E. Hou, Computer Engineering
• Yash S. Pandit, Engineering
• Shreyas Sasanakoti, Engineering
• Karthik S. Vedula, Computer Science
• Veronica Wang, Electrical Engineering
• Annie Wanting Zhao, Electrical Engineering

Thomas S. Wootton High School

• Kent Zhang, Engineering