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MCPS Students Receive Corporate-Sponsored National Merit Scholarships

April 23, 2018

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

 

 

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