Five MCPS Students Receive College-Sponsored National Merit Scholarships – Montgomery County Public Schools

Five MCPS students have been awarded college- or university-sponsored National Merit scholarships financed by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), bringing the total number of MCPS Merit Scholars up to 45 for this year. 
Sponsoring colleges or universities select scholarship winners from among the finalists in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program who plan to attend their institution. These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
The NMSC was established in 1955 to honor scholastically talented youth and to encourage academic excellence at all levels of education. This year’s recipients of college-sponsored scholarships and their intended fields of study are:
Montgomery Blair High School
Yun Yeung, Vanderbilt University
Probable career field: Engineering
 
James Hubert Blake High School
Nathan S. Suddleson, University of Maryland
Probable career field: Engineering 
 
Walter Johnson High School
Miram Elag, Purdue University 
Probable career field: Electrical Engineering
 
Mia A. Halper, Boston University
Probable career field: Journalism
 
Richard Montgomery High School
Adam Jayce Poje, Boston University
Probable career field: Academia

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