National Merit Scholarship recipients: 33 Alabama students honored

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About 30 Alabama excessive schoolers have been chosen as far as Nationwide Benefit Scholarship winners, an honor granted to college students with exceptionally excessive take a look at scores and spectacular service and management expertise.

About 2,500 winners have been chosen nationwide for this spherical of $2,500 scholarships.

Though the Nationwide Benefit Scholarship Competitors underwrites greater than 1 / 4 of the scholarships with its personal funds, most awards are offered by unbiased sponsor organizations. The NMSC plans to announce about 4,000 extra college-sponsored Benefit Scholarship winners on June 1 and July 11.

Final 12 months, a complete of 154 college students from Alabama obtained NMSC and independently sponsored scholarships. The group expects to award about 7,500 whole scholarships price roughly $28 million this 12 months, a slight decline from final 12 months’s 8,500.

Winners are judged to have the “strongest mixture of accomplishment, expertise, and potential for achievement in rigorous faculty research,” the NMSC wrote in a information launch.

This 12 months’s first batch of Alabama winners embrace 10 college students who attend personal colleges and one homeschooler. Of the 22 public college winners, 5 attend a highschool with a magnet program. Most expressed curiosity in science and math fields.

Alabama’s 33 winners who’ve accepted their scholarships as of Could 11, 2022 are listed beneath by the hometowns of the scholars. Extra are anticipated to be named later this summer time.

One factor to bear in mind: This system stated it doesn’t measure the standard or effectiveness of training inside a college, system or state, and it cautions towards evaluating excessive colleges primarily based on what number of Nationwide Benefit winners they’ve.

Alabaster

• Abigail G. McGee, Thompson Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Birmingham

• Andrew C. Glassford, Indian Springs Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Andrew C. Schwebel, Indian Springs Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship underwritten by State Farm Corporations Basis
• James H. Shi, Alabama Faculty of Positive Arts – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Reagan F. Waggoner, homeschool – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Audrey L. Williams, Altamont Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Chelsea

• David N. Houston, Briarwood Christian Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Fairhope

• William W. Watson, Bayside Academy – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Harvest

• Felipe A. Marples Rodriguez, Randolph Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Homewood

• Katherine R. Gillum, Homewood Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Hoover

• Riley G. Luthin, Spain Park Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Sreekiran Nataraj, Hoover Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Huntsville

• Jeremy Hyun-Gyu Okay. Hwang, Grissom Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Eric R. Xing, Randolph Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Madison

• Caleb R. Ethridge, Sparkman Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Kailyn R. Grant, Bob Jones Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Yewon Lee, James Clemens Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Joshua T. Murphree, James Clemens Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Thomas M. Nguyen, Bob Jones Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Mike R. Zhang, Bob Jones Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Cellular

• William M. McCurley, Baker Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Montgomery

• Parker A. Ensminger, Trinity Presbyterian Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Hariaksha Gunda, Loveless Tutorial Magnet Program Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Seoyeon Lee, Loveless Tutorial Magnet Program Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Mooresville

• Matthew C. Crumlish, Randolph Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Northport

• Caitlin E. Dufour, Tuscaloosa County Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Owens Cross Roads

• Shreyas Puducheri, New Century Expertise Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Trussville

• Judson A. Upchurch, Hewitt-Trussville Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Tuscaloosa

• Gabriel Feng, Northridge Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Tobias B. Guo, Alabama Faculty of Positive Arts – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship

Vestavia Hills

• Maria Deng, Vestavia Hills Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Catherine Kung, Indian Springs Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship
• Christina Sorochinsky, Vestavia Hills Excessive Faculty – Nationwide Benefit $2,500 Scholarship