Redmond-area students named National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalists

Published 11:04 am Monday, September 14, 2015

Last week, officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of approximately 16,000 semifinalists in the 61st annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,400 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million that will be offered next spring.

Redmond-area semifinalists:

• Bear Creek School — Caleb Ji

• The Overlake School — Heidi Cho, Rohan Jha, Bharathrham Kodungudi, Rachel Lee, Sarah Moore, Ruth Nordhoff, Ananya Parthasarathy and Mihir Velagapudi

• Redmond High School — Phillip Dietz, Gil Guday, Jaenic Lee, Jessie Liu, Steven Liu, William Maes, Eugene Moon, Aditya Murali, Priya Nakkiran, Anuraag Polisetty, Dagny Safon, Mayukha Vadari, Kyungyoon Yoo, Chaeyoung Yoon and Aaron Zhang

• Nikola Tesla STEM High School — Luigi Coltorti, John Jacobson, Kevin Nakahara, Jenna Oratz, Dinesh Parimi, Miranda Pehrson, Catalina Raggi, Udit Ranasaria, Meena Reddy, Jacob Rumpf, Sophia Tevosyan, Allison Tran, Benjamin Trowbridge, Albert Xu and Amy Zhang

• The following Redmond residents attend the International Community School in Kirkland: Matthew Calligaro, Zhixun Li, Avi Soval and Grace Wang