NMHED News:
SANTA FE – The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced today that Seven Los Alamos Seniors and one from Albuquerque have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards. They are among approximately 770 distinguished high school seniors to receive the honor.
“I applaud both Batelle and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation for their celebration of academic excellence,” NMHED Secretary Arsenio Romero said. “Their commitment to nurturing talent and fostering student success exemplifies the essence of corporate responsibility.”
National Merit Battelle Scholarship Winners:
- John Francesco Cawkwell
Los Alamos H.S., Los Alamos
Probable career field: Astrophysics - Finley Inglis
Los Alamos H.S., Los Alamos
Probable career field: Music - Lucy Caroline Kelley
Los Alamos H.S., Los Alamos
Probable career field: Environmental Science - Rebecca M. Li
Los Alamos H.S., Los Alamos
Probable career field: Psychiatry - Rosario E. Dodd
Los Alamos H.S., Los Alamos
Probable career field: Environmental Science - Minhtet Paing Htoon
Los Alamos H.S., Los Alamos
Probable career field: Engineering - Daniel S. Kim
Los Alamos H.S., Los Alamos
Probable career field: Electrical Engineering - Karen W. Zhang
Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque
Probable career field: Electrical Engineering
Scholars were 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 National Merit Scholarships for finalists 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.
High school juniors entered the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program when they took the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. In September 2023, more than 16,000 semifinalists were designated on a state-representational basis in numbers proportional to each state’s percentage of the national total of graduating high school seniors. Semifinalists were the highest-scoring program entrants in each state and represented less than one percent of the nation’s seniors.