NISD students honored by National Merit Scholarship Program

Eleven NISD students were named semifinalists in the 54th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The semifinalists will now compete for 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards, worth more than $35 million. The nationwide pool of semifinalists includes the highest scoring entrants in each state. About 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and about half of the finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title.

In addition, 38 NISD students were named commended students. Although not advancing to the next level, commended students placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the competition.

Honorees include:

James Hestilow	Business Careers High School	National Merit Commended
Michael Leach	Clark High School	National Merit Semifinalist
Adair Campbell	Clark High School	National Merit Commended
Vicki Chen	Clark High School	National Merit Commended
Andrew Fallon	Clark High School	National Merit Commended
Alessandra Ferrer	Clark High School	National Merit Commended
Joseph Mackin	Clark High School	National Merit Commended
Mia Oviatt	Clark High School	National Merit Commended
Scott Patterson	Clark High School	National Merit Commended
Nicole Reinhard	Clark High School	National Merit Commended
Richard Reyna	Clark High School	National Merit Commended
Allison Seagle	Clark High School	National Merit Commended
Kristen Waggener	Clark High School	National Merit Commended
Andrew Webb	Clark High School	National Merit Commended
Nathan Schuetz	Communications Arts High School	National Merit Semifinalist
Hannah Haworth	Communications Arts High School	National Merit Commended
Jackson Brockus	Health Careers High School	National Merit Semifinalist
Andrew Previc	Health Careers High School	National Merit Semifinalist
Christopher White	Health Careers High School	National Merit Semifinalist
Lauren Zook	Health Careers High School	National Merit Semifinalist
Xinyu Cao	Health Careers High School	National Merit Commended
Alason Polanco	Health Careers High School	National Merit Commended
Christopher Miller	Health Careers High School	National Merit Commended
Supriya Misra	Health Careers High School	National Merit Commended
Madeline Roman	Health Careers High School	National Merit Commended
Wesley Williams	Health Careers High School	National Merit Commended
Evan Youngman	Health Careers High School	National Merit Commended
Rui Zheng	Health Careers High School	National Merit Commended
Daniel Barnett	Marshall High School	National Merit Commended
Jon Gonzales	Marshall High School	National Merit Commended
Ryan Rodriguez	Marshall High School	National Merit Commended
Matthew Sasse	Marshall High School	National Merit Commended
Taylor Carter	O'Connor High School	National Merit Semifinalist
Mu Li	O'Connor High School	National Merit Semifinalist
Ruoheng Zhang	O'Connor High School	National Merit Semifinalist
Alina Dunbar	O'Connor High School	National Merit Commended
Tatum Fritz	O'Connor High School	National Merit Commended
Lauren Kahre	O'Connor High School	National Merit Commended
Christopher Locascio	O'Connor High School	National Merit Commended
Maria Pickett	O'Connor High School	National Merit Commended
Joel Ramirez	O'Connor High School	National Merit Commended
John Reyna	O'Connor High School	National Merit Commended
Christopher Veale	O'Connor High School	National Merit Commended
Roemen Schlotfeldt	Stevens High School	National Merit Commended
Saskia Versteeg	Warren High School	National Merit Semifinalist
Dennis Beatty	Warren High School	National Merit Semifinalist
Joshua Redwine	Warren High School	National Merit Commended
Devon Rieth	Warren High School	National Merit Commended