Twenty-one Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students from seven high schools have been awarded National Merit $2,500 Scholarships financed by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. 
 
The students are among 48 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 15,000 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 corporate and college sponsors. Recipients are judged to have the strongest record of accomplishments and greatest potential for success in college. 
 
On April 23, 14 MCPS seniors from five high schools were announced as recipients of corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships, which are financed by corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations. Additional National Merit Scholarship winners will be announced later this year.
 
The 2018 MCPS $2,500 scholarship recipients are: 

Montgomery Blair High School

George T. Klees

Probable career field: Computer Science

Noah G. Singer

Probable career field: Computer Science

David A. Witten

Probable career field: Computer Science

Katherine J. Wu

Probable career field: Applied Mathematics

Winston Churchill High School

Jiawei Bai

Probable career field: International Law

Noah Y. Kim

Probable career field: Medicine

Carissa Wu

Probable career field: Applied Mathematics

Walt Whitman High School

Joshua A. Engels

Probable career field: Computer Science

Walter Johnson High School

Beryl A. Hovis-Afflerbach

Probable career field: Astrophysics

Zelin Liu

Probable career field: Academia

Jacob S. Lu

Probable career field: Business

Thomas S. Wootton High School

Trent A. Folk

Probable career field: Entrepreneurship

Poolesville High School

Sreya Vangara

Probable career field: Electrical Engineering

Richard Montgomery High School

Charlotte R. Hirsch

Probable career field: Social Science

Lucia Y. Jiang

Probable career field: Law

Rachel R. Li

Probable career field: Law

Eli J. Strauss-Reis

Probable career field: Undecided

Grace M. Wu

Probable career field: Business

Vivian Y. Yeh

Probable career field: Graphic Design

Isabelle Y. Zhou

Probable career field: Entrepreneurship

Kyle K. Zhu

Probable career field: Finance