Fourteen Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) seniors from seven high schools have been awarded corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships. These scholarships, which range from $500 to $10,000, are financed by corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations.
The students are among 25 high school seniors in Maryland and more than 1,000 seniors nationwide to be selected as part of the 62nd annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The scholars were selected from a pool of 15,000 students who were finalists in the National Merit Scholarship competition and met the criteria of their scholarship sponsors.
Corporate sponsors provide National Merit Scholarships for finalists who are children of their employees, who reside in the communities they serve, or who plan to pursue college majors and careers the sponsor wishes to support.
The MCPS winners are:
Montgomery Blair High School
Amy Borton
Sandeep David
Simin Li
Winston Churchill High School
Jennifer Chen
Sheila Gaur
Richard Montgomery High School
Taylor Balfour
Jessica Ji
Fonda Shen
Katherine Wang
Heavenly Zheng
Northwest High School
Erika Schlunk
Poolesville High School
Caroline Leng
Thomas S. Wootton High School
Abbie Tran
Walter Johnson High School
Evelien van Gelderen