Twenty MCPS students from eight high schools have been awarded National Merit corporate-sponsored scholarships financed by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. The students are part of a group of more than 1,000 National Merit finalists chosen to receive scholarships financed by about 136 corporations, company foundations and other business organizations.
The students are among 28 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 16,000 students, and will receive awards between $1,000 and $10,000 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.
Winners of the corporate-sponsored scholarships, with their schools and probable career fields are:
Montgomery Blair High School
Celeste R. Basken
Probable career field: Environmental Policy
Aditya Chattopadhyay
Probable career field: Computer Science
Kevin J. Gehl
Probable career field: Law
Alena Y. Hu
Probable career field: Mechanical Engineering
Winston Churchill High School
Amber Liu
Probable career field: Medicine
Andrew T. Wang
Probable career field: Medicine
Justin Wang
Probable career field: Electrical Engineering
Damascus High School
Pritham S. Mulagura
Probable career field: Medicine
Northwest High School
Melanie Duong
Probable career field: Law (Intellectual Property)
Imani Ghosh
Probable career field: Medicine
Poolesville High School
Neha Chandra
Probable career field: Medicine
Arpita M. Raman
Probable career field: Medicine
Vivian Y. Xiao
Probable career field: Computer Science
Richard Montgomery High School
Madeline E. Lawrence
Probable career field: Undecided
Feileen N. Li
Probable career field: International Business
Vismaya P. Mohindra
Probable career field: International Relations
Emily S. Wu
Probable career field: Business
Walt Whitman High School
Hugh Markham
Probable career field: Entrepreneurship
Thomas S. Wootton High School
Keerthi Padmanabhan
Probable career field: Materials Engineering
Isra Qadri
Probable career field: Public Policy