Fourteen Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students from five high schools have been awarded corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships. These scholars were selected from students who advanced to the Finalist level in the National Merit Scholarship competition and met criteria of their scholarship sponsors.
Most of these scholarships are renewable for up to four years of college undergraduate study and provide annual stipends that range from $500 to $10,000 per year. Some provide a single payment between $2,500 and $5,000.
These students are part of a distinguished group of about 1,000 high school seniors who have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards financed by 200 corporations, company foundations and other business organizations.
The winners and their intended career fields are:
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
Adam S. Park
Probable career field: Biomedicine
Natalie Nantais
Probable career field: Ecology
Paul T. Kolbeck
Probable career field: Physics
Montgomery Blair High School
Anish Senapati
Probable career field: Theoretical Physics
Ankitha Durvasula
Probable career field: Mechanical Engineering
Enya C. Wang
Probable career field: Biomedicine
Sushanth Gupta
Probable career field: Chemical Engineering
Richard Montgomery High School
Irene G. Park
Probable career field: Communications
Lisa Yang
Probable career field: Medicine
William L. Liu
Probable career field: Computer Programming
Poolesville High School
Caius A. Kim
Probable career field: Medicine
Claude Y. Zou
Probable career field: Computer Science
Thomas S. Wootton High School
Hoyean Le
Probable career field: Mechanical Engineering
Vijay I. Dey
Probable career field: Applied Mathematics