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Fifteen Montgomery County students have earned corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the first group of awards for the graduating class of 2025.
Approximately 830 high school seniors won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards financed by about 124 corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations.
Awardees are 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 scholarships for students 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.
Most of the awards are renewable for up to four years of college undergraduate study and provide annual stipends that range from $1,000 to $10,000 per year. Some provide a single payment between $2,500 and $5,000. Recipients can use their awards at any regionally accredited U.S. college or university of their choice.
The winners, their intended career fields and the scholarship are:
Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring
Walter Johnson High School, Bethesda
Winston Churchill High School, Potomac
Poolesville High School, Poolesville
Quince Orchard High School, Gaithersburg
Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville
Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda
Washington Waldorf School, Bethesda
158 County Students Named National Merit Semifinalists
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