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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Record Number of FCPS Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

A record number of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) students–219–from 22 high schools have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) for 2010.  Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), which also serves as the Governor’s Regional School for Northern Virginia, has 149 semifinalists.

All semifinalists are eligible to compete for 8,200 National Merit Scholarship awards worth $36 million, to be awarded in spring 2010.

FCPS National Merit semifinalists are:

Annandale High School:  Rebecca Pelkey.
Centreville High School:  Matthew Lapuz.
Chantilly High School:  Stewart Bell and Megan Quetsch.
Edison High School:  James Anderegg.
Fairfax High School:  Emily Schutz.
Falls Church High School:  Katherine Gianturco.
Hayfield Secondary School:  Emily Eastlake and Derek Lindsey.
Herndon High School:  Jared Hunsaker and Omar Saleem.
Lake Braddock Secondary School:  Samuel Chirtel, Mari Jarris, David Katz, and Christina McGarry.
Langley High School:  Michael Alexander, Christine Campbell, Hannah Haught, Hyunjun Kim, Ryan Lu, Joshua Pan, and Jonathan Park.
Madison High School:  Erin Blakley, Jacob Eder, Paul Fredericks, William Hayward, Allison Rogers, Timothy Schroeder, Kelly Williams, and Julie Yee.
Marshall High School:  Conor Dinan, Jonathan Giles, Rebecca Groisser, Kelsey Kolbe, and Ann O’Brien.
McLean High School:  Libi Baehr, David Berk, Annika Lichtenbaum, Natalie Mabile, Katherine Peck, Charles Tenney, and Fifi Wang.
Oakton High School:  Sheen Justin, Alice Li, Yuanzhe Li, Laura Lyons, Natalie Nysetvold, Katie Smith, and Zachary Stair.
Robinson Secondary School:  Florence Ahn.
South Lakes High School:  Marcy Delos.
Stuart High School:  Eleanor Robinson.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology:  Nader Al-Naji, Paul Anderson, Nicole Bailey, Luke Bean, Kristina Brant, Samuel Brinton, Logan Buckley, Alexander Burch, James Byrne, Matthew Callahan, Liam Carter-Condon, Matthew Chan, Jack Chen, Luke Cheng, Dahan Choi, Hannah Clark, James Clark, Spencer Clark, Connor Cotton, Anne Creighton, Aviv Cukierman, Robert Culhane, Elisabeth Cundiff, Xuerong Dai, Eric Dale, Temple Douglas, Simone Dozier, Kelsey Dressing, Jeanette Du, William Dubishar, Elliott Eggan, David Ensey, Megan Falls, Maretta Fan, Marie French, Nora Gayer, Thomas Georgiou, Avnish Goel, Alicia Goertel, Patrick Gould, Lance Guthrie, Brian Hamrick, Joel Heck, Jeremy Ho, Salini Hota, Julie Hsia, Danley Hsu, Jonathan Hsu, Victor Hsu, Xiaonan Hu, Andrew Imm, Keturah James, James Janopaul-Naylor, Daniel Johnson, Tristan Jones, Minsjk Jun, Kyurhee Kang, Kamna Kathuria, Aryan Khojandi, Christopher Kilgore, Byong Han Kim, Luke Knepper, Colleen Knight, Allison Koenecke, Aaron Koenig, Jason Koenig, Seth Kolker, Candice Kremer, Vandana Kumar, Mariet Kurtz, Lee Kussmann, Andrew Lam, Matthew Lamb, Joseph Latta, Alice Lee, Christine Lee, Madeleine Lemann, Andrew Lending, Nathan Levine, Greyson Lewis, Alicia Li, Daniel Li, George Li, Xianhao Mai, Stuart Maier, William Manaker, Helena Manguerra, Kathryn Martinez, David Mazzocco, Alexander McGlothlin, Alexandra Mellis, Alyssa-Claire Mendoza, Jennifer Mercado, Zachary Michaelov, Andrew Mittereder, Anirudh Mohan, Kathryn Moore, Kimberly Moore, Adam Mounts, Lisa Nam, Cara Newlon, Sarah Notis, Christine O’Donnell, Matthew Palko, Juyeon Park, Samantha Payne, Kevin Place, Courtney Prothero, Ashwin Raja, Daniel Ranard, Timothy Rauen, Samuel Rush, Amy Ruskin, Megan Sagurton, Christine Shen, Victor Shepardson, Vivaek Shivakumar, Neelesh Shrivastava, Anne Silverman, Nihaar Sinha, Hugh Smith, Karl Sofinowski, Samuel Speers, Alexander Stabile, John Sullivan, Julie Ta, Meg Tetlow, Juliana Thatcher, William Troppe, Ming-Yee Tsang, Daniel Wang, Dennis Wang, Grace Wang, Sarah Watson, Quantum Wei, Kathryn Williamson, Akshar Wunnava, Cheng Xu, Hanwen Xu, Amy Yang, Sharon Yin, Renjie You, Andrea Yun, Dmitriy Zaslavskiy, Christopher Zeng, Judy Zeng, Biqi Zhang, Honghou Zhou, and Sherie Zhou.
Westfield High School:  Lyssa Barton, Nicole Barton, Dharanish Gollamudi, Alex Hopkins, Kelly Koupash, and Jeeyun Park.
West Potomac High School:  Margaret Berrigan and Andrew Staples.
West Springfield High School:  Lauren Brown, Megan Fraedrich, Maya Halthore, Gabriel Manion, and Emily Pope.
Woodson High School: Steven Goldenberg, Victor Luo, Luke Nicastro, Vincent Rampino, and Victoria Wang.

Approximately 16,000 high school seniors were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists for 2010.  More than 1.5 million juniors entered the 2010 National Merit program by taking the 2008 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which serves as the initial screen of program entrants.  The nationwide pool of semifinalists, which represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state.  The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

Three types of Merit Scholarship awards will be offered in 2010:  National Merit $2,500 scholarships, corporate-sponsored scholarships, and college-sponsored scholarships.

Merit Scholarship winners will be announced in spring 2010.

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