33 students have earned college- and university-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the latest round of awards from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Awardees are selected by each sponsoring college or university from a group of finalists in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program. The awards provide recipients between $500 to $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
The winners, their intended career fields and the sponsoring university or college are:
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
- Caroline S. Hallmark, undecided, Bowdoin College
Montgomery Blair High School
- Liam O. DeVoe, computer science, University of Maryland
- Jennifer Ren, journalism, Northwestern University
- Daniel R. Levy, academia, University of Maryland
- Tarun N. Mattikalli, surgical medicine, University of Maryland
- Andrew Hu, business, Vanderbilt University
- Joey D. Kim, physics, University of Maryland
- Kelley Li, computer science, University of Maryland
- Simon L. Chervenak, computer science, University of Maryland
- Rachel S. Dey, physics, University of Chicago
- Josephine M. James-Le, marine biology, Tulane University
- June P. Lee, mechanical engineering (robotics), University of Maryland
- Jesse H. Silverberg, computer science, Case Western Reserve University
- Carter M. Wilson, computer science, University of Rochester
Winston Churchill High School
- Navya Gautam, medicine, University of Maryland
- Manu Sundaresan, academia, University of Chicago
Northwest High School
- Amanda J. Li, computer science, University of Maryland
- John Bang, computer science, University of Maryland
Poolesville High School
- Tejas Guha, electrical engineering, University of Maryland
- Alison Y. Wang, business, Fordham University
Richard Montgomery High School
- Jennifer J. Li, neuroscience, University of Maryland
- Helen Qian, medicine, Vanderbilt University
- Anagha Shastry, medicine, University of Maryland
- Joy J. Wang, computer science, University of Maryland
- Sophia S. Wang, economics, University of Chicago
- Neal S. Machado, computer science, University of Maryland
- Samantha R. Brown, international human rights, Bowdoin College
- Michael Pan, medicine, University of Maryland
- Zachary J. Teselko, aerospace engineering, University of Maryland
- Kevin B. Pan, computer science, University of Maryland
Walt Whitman High School
- Jules R. Bertholet, computer science, University of Maryland
Walter Johnson High School
- Sreekrishna Ramireddygari, computer science, University of Maryland
- Sophia D. Wu, medicine, The University of Texas at Dallas