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National Merit® $2500 Scholarship & Corporate Sponsored Winners Named
05/06/2011
Clear Creek Independent School District
Office of Public Information
2425 East Main Street
League City, Texas 77573
May 4, 2011
Contact: Janice Scott, Public Information Assistant Director
(281) 284-0020 or jwscott@ccisd.net
National Merit® $2500 Scholarship & Corporate Sponsored Winners Named
League City -- National Merit $2500 Scholarships winners were announced today by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). Clear Creek ISD is proud to have 7 winners from Clear Lake and Clear Brook High Schools:
Dylan S. Domel-White
Probable career field: Engineering
CLEAR BROOK H. S., FRIENDSWOOD
NATIONAL MERIT $2500 SCHOLARSHIP
This award is supported by National Merit Scholarship Corporation's own funds.
Kelly Hogg
Probable career field: Business
CLEAR BROOK H. S., FRIENDSWOOD
NATIONAL MERIT $2500 SCHOLARSHIP
This award is supported by National Merit Scholarship Corporation's own funds.
Jocelyn Hwang
Probable career field: Chemical Engineering
CLEAR LAKE H. S., HOUSTON
NATIONAL MERIT $2500 SCHOLARSHIP
This award is supported by National Merit Scholarship Corporation's own funds.
Ayushi Kumar
Probable career field: Chemical Engineering
CLEAR LAKE H. S., HOUSTON
NATIONAL MERIT $2500 SCHOLARSHIP
This award is supported by National Merit Scholarship Corporation's own funds.
Saam K. Motamedi
Probable career field: Law
CLEAR LAKE H. S., HOUSTON
NATIONAL MERIT $2500 SCHOLARSHIP
This award is supported by National Merit Scholarship Corporation's own funds.
Anh Phuong Tran
Probable career field: Finance
CLEAR LAKE H. S., HOUSTON
NATIONAL MERIT $2500 SCHOLARSHIP
This award is supported by National Merit Scholarship Corporation's own funds
Samuel A. Yang
Probable career field: Finance
CLEAR LAKE H. S., HOUSTON
NATIONAL MERIT $2500 SCHOLARSHIP
This award is supported by National Merit Scholarship Corporation's own funds.
Clear Creek ISD also has five students who won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards financed by about 200 corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations. They are as follows:
Henry He
Probable career field: Medicine
CLEAR LAKE H. S., HOUSTON
NATIONAL MERIT PPG INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP
PPG Industries Foundation, which supports this scholarship, is financed by PPG Industries, Pittsburgh, PA. Scholarships are awarded to exceptionally able young men & women who are residents of selected communities where PPG has maintained manufacturing or distribution operations or who are children of PPG Industries employees. A diversified industrial complex, PPG Industries Inc. has worldwide glass, chemical, coatings and resins, and fiberglass manufacturing and marketing operations.
Amy Kuo-Yuan Kao
Probable career field: Interactive Media
CLEAR LAKE H. S., HOUSTON
NATIONAL MERIT LOCKHEED MARTIN ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP
The Lockheed Martin Corporation Foundation supports Merit Scholarship awards for children of Lockheed Martin employees located throughout the world. These scholarships are part of the corporation's support to its employees, the community, and to education, reflecting its strong belief that higher education is essential to the nation's future.
Cynthia Ytram Truong
Probable career field: Medicine
CLEAR LAKE H. S., HOUSTON
NATIONAL MERIT BOEING SCHOLARSHIP
The Boeing Company supports Merit Scholarship awards annually for children of employees. The Merit Scholarship awards are a part of the Boeing Company's comprehensive aid to education program.
Dennis C. Wang
Probable career field: Financial Engineering
CLEAR LAKE H. S., HOUSTON
NATIONAL MERIT BOEING SCHOLARSHIP
The Boeing Company supports Merit Scholarship awards annually for children of employees. The Merit Scholarship awards are a part of the Boeing Company's comprehensive aid to education program.
Celeste Guhl
Probable career field: Library Science
CLEAR LAKE H. S., HOUSTON
NATIONAL MERIT BASF CORPORATION SCHOLARSHIP
BASF Corporation, a Fortune 100 company, is the North American arm of the BASF Group, one of the world's oldest and largest chemical companies. Its highly diversified product mix includes basic, intermediate and specialty chemicals, colorants, dispersions,
fiber raw materials, automotive coatings, printing inks, urethane specialties and chemicals, plastics, advanced composites, crop protection products, antifreeze, pharmaceuticals, vitamins, and audio, video and computer recording media.
The $2,500 Merit Scholar designees were chosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 outstanding Finalists in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program. National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners are the Finalists in each state judged to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills, and potential for success in rigorous college studies. They were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors.
These Scholars may use their awards at any regionally accredited U.S. college or university.
NMSC finances most of these single-payment National Merit $2500 Scholarships.
Corporations and company foundations that sponsor awards through NMSC also help underwrite these scholarships with grants they provide in lieu of paying administrative fees.
The Corporate Sponsored Merit Scholars were 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 National Merit Scholarships for Finalists 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 these awards are renewable for up to four years of college undergraduate study and provide annual stipends that range from $500 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.
This year’s competition for National Merit Scholarships began in October 2009 when approximately 1.5 million juniors in some 22,000 high schools took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. Last fall, the highest-scoring participants in each state, representing less than one percent of the state’s seniors, were named Semifinalists on a state representational basis.
Only the 16,000 Semifinalists had an opportunity to continue in the competition.
From the Semifinalist group, 15,000 met the very high academic standards and other
requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. By the conclusion of the 2011 program, about 7,800 Finalists will have earned the “Merit Scholar” title and received a total of nearly $35 million in college scholarships.
