County Seniors Shine in National Merit Scholarship Program

Almost 90 Hamilton County high school seniors are among 16,000 high schoolers who are semifinalists in the 70th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 6,870 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $26 million that will be offered next spring.

To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition.

About 95 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.

The students (listed alphabetically by high school) are:

NOBLESVILLE H. S.

Emma K. Duell, Alexander R. Marshall, Eleanor G. Meginnis, Vaibhav D. Patel and Megan R. Rowley.

ST. THEODORE GUERIN H. S.

August Bauer, Emilia Becker, Luke Moster and William Voight.

WESTFIELD H. S.

Avalyn Kainrath, Henry Pham, Lily Pillsbury and Pranesh Raghavendran.

CARMEL H. S.

Nicholas B. Anderson, Rebecca L. Belanger, Sreesh N. Chakravarthula, Aditya K. Chaudhary, Gavin Chen,  Matthew Y. Deng, Ruth T. Derksen, Jessica Ding, Michael D. Fortuna, Gideon G. Goldstein, Kellen H. Gong, Alexander S. Haidar, Isaiah V. Henderson, Christopher R. Herzog, David Jiang, Noah M. Kahn, Juan J. Koothur, Minkyu Lee, Anna Y. Liao, Angelina L. Liu, Ava Z. Luo, Adam S. Madni, Timothy I. Marijono, Leah K. McKay, Edward X. Meng, Darcy A. Moffett, Grace Y. Nie, Sahanaa Nishkaran, Arielle Sorelle Noussa Fotso, Ashley A. Paul, Julia Peng, Anthony Pho, Brian Pho, Musa C. Pitney, Michael L. Qian, Kelly Shi, Aayush K. Singh, Alex Song, Justin Z. Tang, Cole O. TerBush, Samuel J. Vrtismarsh, Noah K. Yoon, Ethan W. Zhen, Ivy Zhen and Grace Zheng.

FISHERS H. S.

Cole Anderson, Katelyn Armey, Chase Frank, Maxime Hendryx-Parker, McKinzie Horoho, Matthew Iskandar, Natalie Konkle, Jasmina Mehic, Victor Petricic, Beau Wolf and Carlos Wood.

HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN H. S.

Rohan J. Eapen, Jackson N. Fuller, Mary E. Hinen, Sanjana K. Malineni, Audrey C. Orbin, James D. Willmore, Jasmine J. Wu and Manasdev S. Yadav.

UNIVERSITY H. S.

Triston English, Emily A. Ganter, Beatriz Machado Lacerda, Henry Wang, Samuel J. Weaver, Ellen P. Whorley and Stacy Z. Xu.