Twenty-eight Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students have received National Merit Scholarships in the latest round of awards sponsored by universities and colleges.
Each sponsoring college or university selected scholarship winners from among the finalists in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program. College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
This is the final round of National Merit Scholarship recipients for the Class of 2018. In all, MCPS had 73 National Merit scholarship recipients. As of June, MCPS graduates from the Class of 2018 earned more than $364 million in college scholarships.
The latest National Merit Scholarship winners, the sponsoring college or university, and their intended career fields are:
Montgomery Blair High School
Siddharth Taneja, University of Maryland, physics
Marissa Wang He, University of Maryland, computer engineering
Alex A. Wang, University of Maryland, materials science
Perry Z. Beamer, University of Maryland, academia
Everest C. Bloomer, University of Maryland, electrical engineering
Jacob M. Santangelo, University of Maryland, computer science
Elliot S. Kienzle, physics, University of Maryland
Arman Siddique, University of Maryland, computer science
Christopher T. Fiala, University of Maryland, information technology
Winston Churchill High School
Eric C. Li, University of Maryland, computer science
George J. Tong, University of Maryland, computer science
Liza M. Gunther, University of Maryland, physics
Clarksburg High School
Anindita Mullick, University of Maryland, biochemistry
John F. Kennedy High School
Clark A. Abbott, University of Maryland, software engineering
Poolesville High School
Eric Shen Long Qian, University of Maryland, cell biology
Mitchell R. Fream, University of Maryland, electrical engineering
Gavin F. Prebilic, University of Maryland, computer science
Parth R. Oza, University of Maryland, computer engineering
Richard Montgomery High School
Catherine L. Dang, University of Maryland, biology
Kathleen A. McHale, Scripps College, undecided
Alythia Vo, University of Maryland, medicine
Longfei Yang, University of Maryland, finance
Emily Gale Zhou, University of Maryland, development economics
Sherwood High School
Peter Feeney, University of Maryland, corporate finance
Jared Schwartz, University of Maryland, engineering
Walter Johnson High School
Margaret R. Hansen, University of Maryland, engineering
Thomas S. Wootton High School
Yue Cao, University of Maryland, computer engineering
Harvey D. Sun, University of Maryland, computer engineering