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Twenty-Three MCPS Students Win National Merit $2,500 Scholarships
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
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
Joshua Hou
Probable career field: finance
Sabrina I. Su
Probable career field: architecture
Rockville High School
Jaxon D. Lee
Wheaton High School
Rebecca J. Baxter
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
Daniel S. Hwang
Probable career field: public health
Jennifer J. Li
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