Fifteen Montgomery County students have earned corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the first group of awards for the graduating class of 2025.
Approximately 830 high school seniors won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards financed by about 124 corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations.
Awardees are selected from students who advanced to the Finalist level in the National Merit Scholarship competition and met criteria of their scholarship sponsors. Corporate sponsors provide scholarships for students who are children of their employees, who are residents of communities the company serves, or who plan to pursue college majors or careers the sponsor wishes to encourage.
Most of the awards are renewable for up to four years of college undergraduate study and provide annual stipends that range from $1,000 to $10,000 per year. Some provide a single payment between $2,500 and $5,000. Recipients can use their awards at any regionally accredited U.S. college or university of their choice.
Corporate-Sponsored 2025 National Merit Scholar Awardees
The winners, their intended career fields and the scholarship are:
Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring
- Reetika Banerjee, computer science, Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Scholarship
- Ian Gadbois Campbell, computer science, Senator Charles S. Robb Scholarship
- Meru Gopalan, physics, Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Scholarship
- Kripa Krishna, neurology, Leidos, Inc. Scholarship
- Charlotte J. Li, engineering, Leidos, Inc. Scholarship
Walter Johnson High School, Bethesda
- Anna Maria Mockel, medicine, Mary E. Beyerle Scholarship
Winston Churchill High School, Potomac
- Emilio B. Difilippantonio, computer science, Leidos, Inc. Scholarship
- Alex Song, mechanical engineering, Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Scholarship
Poolesville High School, Poolesville
- Bryan R. Yung, computer science, Northrop Grumman Scholarship
Quince Orchard High School, Gaithersburg
- Steven Siyuan Wang, computer science, 3M Scholarship
Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville
- Chaiwey Chen, business, Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Scholarship
- Rohit Ghosh Das, biological engineering, Leidos, Inc Scholarship
- Kaixin Catherine Hou, civil engineering, Battelle Scholarship
Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda
- Dresden Deborah Benke, medical research, S&P Global Scholarship
Independent Schools
Washington Waldorf School, Bethesda
- Sebastian L. Chang-Leung, computer science, Leidos, Inc. Scholarship
