The following students from Redmond have received scholarships through the National Merit Scholarship Program.
About 1,000 high school seniors have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards financed by about 200 corporations, company foundations and other business organizations.
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, 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.
Redmond residents Bijoya Basu, a student at The Overlake School, and Mary E. Gwin, a student at Inglemoor High School, both received the National Merit Boeing Scholarship. Basu plans to study neuroscience and Gwin plans to study medicine.
