33 Montgomery County Students Earn National Merit Scholarships

Montgomery Blair High School

33 students have earned college- and university-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the latest round of awards from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Awardees are selected by each sponsoring college or university from a group of finalists in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program. The awards provide recipients between $500 to $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

The winners, their intended career fields and the sponsoring university or college are:

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School

• Caroline S. Hallmark, undecided, Bowdoin College

Montgomery Blair High School

• Liam O. DeVoe, computer science, University of Maryland
• Jennifer Ren, journalism, Northwestern University
• Daniel R. Levy, academia, University of Maryland
• Tarun N. Mattikalli, surgical medicine, University of Maryland
• Andrew Hu, business, Vanderbilt University
• Joey D. Kim, physics, University of Maryland
• Kelley Li, computer science, University of Maryland
• Simon L. Chervenak, computer science, University of Maryland
• Rachel S. Dey, physics, University of Chicago
• Josephine M. James-Le, marine biology, Tulane University
• June P. Lee, mechanical engineering (robotics), University of Maryland
• Jesse H. Silverberg, computer science, Case Western Reserve University
• Carter M. Wilson, computer science, University of Rochester

Winston Churchill High School

• Navya Gautam, medicine, University of Maryland
• Manu Sundaresan, academia, University of Chicago

Northwest High School

• Amanda J. Li, computer science, University of Maryland
• John Bang, computer science, University of Maryland

Poolesville High School

• Tejas Guha, electrical engineering, University of Maryland
• Alison Y. Wang, business, Fordham University

Richard Montgomery High School

• Jennifer J. Li, neuroscience, University of Maryland
• Helen Qian, medicine, Vanderbilt University
• Anagha Shastry, medicine, University of Maryland
• Joy J. Wang, computer science, University of Maryland
• Sophia S. Wang, economics, University of Chicago
• Neal S. Machado, computer science, University of Maryland
• Samantha R. Brown, international human rights, Bowdoin College
• Michael Pan, medicine, University of Maryland
• Zachary J. Teselko, aerospace engineering, University of Maryland
• Kevin B. Pan, computer science, University of Maryland

Walt Whitman High School

• Jules R. Bertholet, computer science, University of Maryland

Walter Johnson High School

• Sreekrishna Ramireddygari, computer science, University of Maryland
• Sophia D. Wu, medicine, The University of Texas at Dallas

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