Nine Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) seniors from five high schools have been awarded corporate-sponsored scholarships in the first round of the annual National Merit Scholarships.
These scholarships, which range from $1,000 to $10,000 per year, are financed by corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations. The scholarships may either be renewable for four years of undergraduate study or one-time awards.
The students are among approximately 1,000 seniors nationwide to be selected as part of the 66th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, according to a National Merit Scholarship Corporation news release. The scholars were selected from a pool of 17,000 students who were finalists in the National Merit Scholarship competition and met the criteria of their scholarship sponsors.
The MCPS winners of the corporate-sponsored scholarships, with their intended career fields, are:
Montgomery Blair High School
- Raymond Luo, computer programming
- Tmothy C. Qian, electrical engineering
- Evan Z. Wang, computer science
Winston Churchill High School
- Daniel G. Liu, computer science
Richard Montgomery High School
- Jason Hu, finance
- Danesh Sivakumar, computer science
- Namya Nanda, medicine
Walter Johnson High School
- Beri S. Gershwind, engineering
Thomas S. Wootton High School
- Jenna M. Shi, medicine
Visit National Merit Scholarship Program to learn more about the program.
