Nine Montgomery County students have earned corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the first group of awards for the graduating class of 2024.
Approximately 770 high school seniors won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards financed by about 94 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 2024 National Merit Scholar Awardees
The winners, their intended career fields and the scholarship are:
Clarksburg High School
- Yalini Anbalagan, medicine, Bristol Myers Squibb Scholarship
Poolesville High School
- Aditya Lahiri, bioinformatics, Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Scholarship
- Jasmine Q. Li, engineering, Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Scholarship
- Milo A. Stammers, mathematics, Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Scholarship
- Soumya P. Jailwala, computer science, Walgreen Co. Scholarship
Winston Churchill High School, Potomac
- Angie Chen, biology, Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Scholarship
Thomas S. Wootton High School, Rockville
- Carolyn Fu, law, GEICO Scholarship
- Rhea Chelar, computer science, Mary E. Beyerle Scholarship
Rockville High School
- Maximilian G. Pankowski, academia, National Distillers Distributors Foundation Scholarship
