Twenty-Two MCPS Students Earn College-Sponsored National Merit Scholarships

Twenty-two Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students have earned college- and university-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the latest round of awards from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Each sponsoring college or university selected scholarship winners from among the finalists in the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program. These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.

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

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School

Jeffrey L. Olsen
Grinnell College
Probable career field: Economics

Montgomery Blair High School

Matthias R. Nigmann
Rochester Institute of Technology
Probable career field: Electrical Engineering

River T. Qiu
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science

James Hubert Blake High School

Conrad N. Blom
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Politics

Winston Churchill High School

Sabrina Emily Chou
University of Southern California
Probable career field: Consulting

Elise L. Huang
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Biochemistry

Alvia Parvez Naqvi
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science

Walter Johnson High School

Nathan H. Tang
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science

Richard Montgomery High School

Carolyn L. Conner
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Environmental Science

Michelle Yu
Emory University
Probable career field: Applied Mathematics

Samwit Dangol
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Engineering

Northwest High School

Anthony J. Wang
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Materials Engineering

Poolesville High School

Vaishnavi Banda
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science

Patrick T. Foley
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science

Nora E. Rudmann
University of Central Florida
Probable career field: Acting

Walt Whitman High School

Timothy J. Lindstrom
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Engineering

Anthony J. Noya
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Electrical Engineering

Arjun R. Mohan
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Applied Mathematics

Thomas S. Wootton High School

Aylin E. Aarhus
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Journalism

Shreyas Bachu
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Science

Yusuf A. Hasan
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Computer Engineering

Arjun N. Ram
University of Maryland
Probable career field: Business