Twenty-three Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students from 10 high schools have been awarded National Merit $2,500 Scholarships financed by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. 
 
The students are among 47 high school seniors in Maryland to be selected in the latest group of National Merit Scholarship Program recipients. The scholars were selected from a pool of more than 17,000 students, and will receive a one-time award of $2,500 for post-secondary education. 
 
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) was established in 1955 to honor scholastically talented youth and encourage academic excellence at all levels of education. The scholarships are privately funded by NMSC, and are underwritten by more than 400 independent corporate and college sponsors.

The 2021 MCPS $2,500 scholarship recipients, their schools and probable career fields are: 

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School

Sofia G. Fontana

Probable career field: mathematics

Montgomery Blair High School

Esther Tang

Probable career field: neuroscience

Dheeraj U. Keshav

Probable career field: computer science

Christopher L. Tong

Probable career field: chemistry

Chad K. Yu

Probable career field: applied mathematics

Mark G. Koklyelov

Probable career field: physics

Nicole E. Tran

Probable career field: optometry

Gabriel D. Wu

Probable career field: computer science

Fiona D. Harrington

Probable career field: environmental science

Charlotte S. Wallsten

Probable career field: medicine

Winston Churchill High School

Jeffrey J. Luo

Probable career field: biochemical engineering

Col. Zadok Magruder High School

Benjamin Kwiatkowski

Probable career field: biomedical engineering

Paint Branch High School

Mary E. Shawhan

Probable career field: undecided

Poolesville High School

Jane Liu

Probable career field: computer science

Joshua Hou

Probable career field: finance

Sabrina I. Su

Probable career field: architecture

Rockville High School

Jaxon D. Lee

Probable career field: computer science

Wheaton High School

Rebecca J. Baxter

Probable career field: biomedical engineering

Walt Whitman High School

Susan B. Rodgers

Probable career field: healthcare

Rachel E. Scissors

Probable career field: biology

Thomas S. Wootton High School

Amy X. He

Probable career field: healthcare

Daniel S. Hwang

Probable career field: public health

Jennifer J. Li

Probable career field: computer science

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