Schools & Military n As part of the summer-semesterabroad program at Miami University, Caitlyn Dreux of McLean traveled to Greece; Grace Callander of McLean traveled to the United Kingdom and France; and Hailey Stafford of Vienna traveled to Italy. Students in the program participate in internships, service-learning programs and non-credit programs at Miami University’s Luxembourg campus and more than 90 locations across the globe.
n Kritika Singh, a senior at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, was one of the eight girls picked nationally for her contributions to global causes and honored as part of the “Teen Choice Awards” on FOX. Singh started Malaria Free World, a non-profit organization, to advocate for malaria research. Through hosting educational events and fundraisers, she aims to raise awareness for the malaria epidemic as well as foster scientific innovation for young aspiring scientists. In its first year itself, Malaria Free World has educated over 5,000 youth worldwide.
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n A total of 237 Fairfax County Public Schools students – an all-time high – from 19 high and secondary schools have been named semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corp. for 2016. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology has 163 semifinalists, also a record number for that school. All semifinalists are eligible to compete for 7,400 National Merit Scholarship awards worth $32 million, to be awarded next spring. National Merit Semifinalists from schools in the Sun Gazette coverage area include: – Langley High School: Shanell Fan, Yasmin Khodaei, Tyler Larkworthy, Nikhil Sakhamuri, Jing Wang and Lyric Wu. – James Madison High School: William Carter, Emily Cheng, Joyae Cheng, Michael Giovanniello, Casey Grage, Terri Hahn, John Han, Annie Khuu, Liam Murphy, Nazar Ostapenko, Katrina White and Kevin Woolsey. – George C. Marshall High School: John Balch and Emma Fan. – McLean High School: Nicholas Anthony, Jatin Dasgupta, Iris Gou, Abraham Haji, Kathryn Howley, Adam Katwan, Sam Kim, Andrew Ko, Grace Lee, Gulenay Saydahmat, Matthew Steelberg, Catherina Suh, Gillian Wright, Kun Xing, Jin Yong Yoo and Liam Zeya. – Oakton High School: Rachel Carlton, Wilson He, Gregory Lee, Sarah Meng, Nikhil Prasad, Grace Yu and Zhiguang Zheng. – Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology: Hasan Ahmad, Marcus Alder, Millen Anand, Juliana Bain, Devon Barbour, Milan Bharadwaj, Shreya Bhatia, Maaike Blindenbach, Bradford Case, Abhimanyu Chadha, Haarika Chalasani, Alex Chang, Arvind Chava, Kenneth Chen, Allen Cheng, Saroj Chintakrindi, Jane Choi, Jake Cui, Deboshree Das, Stephen Dempsey, Ankit Deshmukh, Megan Do, Claire Dong, Venkata Doodala, Ana Driscoll, Joyce Duan, Perry Feng, Donald Frank, Giancarlo Frix, Aaron Geldert, Kiran Girish, Anthara Gnanakumar, Joel Goetz, Ryan Golant, Han Gu, Pranav Gulati, Matthew Guo, Dhruv Gupta, Shrey Gupta, Richard Hage, Alison Hau, Aaron Ho, Christopher Hoang, Alexander Hoganson, Chloe How, Samuel Hsiang, Andrew Huang, Grace Huang, Gabriela Huckabee, Junyoung Hwang, Catherine Im, Chantal Iosso, Deepak Jayachandran, Joslyn Jung, Tarun Kamath, Deborah Kang, Tai
iel Medas, Austin Mills, Evelyn Mo, Al Mochida, Christopher Morris, Hrishikesh Nair, Jessica Nguyen, Thuy-Vi Nguyen, Jared Nirenberg, Joo Young Ok, Christopher Oliveira, James Pan, Rohan Pandit, James Park, Robin Park, Maitri Patel, Sayan Paul, Felipe Pazos, Abbigail Peterson, Katherine Pruitt, Lisa Qian, Bijal Rajput, Nikhil Ramachandran, Raghav Ramraj, Claudia Richoux, Charles Ruiter, Clarissa Scoggins, Ravi Shankar, Nirmaan Shanker, Andrew Shi, Kunal Shroff, Anika Sindhwani, Kritika Singh, Emilio Sison, An Smith, Johnson Song, Emily Sun, Matthew Sun, Virginia Sun, Ananya Suri, Aneesh Susarla, Anant Tewari, Julian Vallyeason, Kaushik Venkatesh, Akhil Waghmare, Shuxian Wang, Wendy Wang, Sara Warrington, Jason Wei, Kathryn Wen, Phoebe Whitmore, Bernice Wu, Kevin Xu, Hitesh Yalamanchili, Stella Yang, Victoria Yang, Rohan Yaradi, Michael You, Michael Yue, Shirley Zhan, Alec Zhang, Olivia Zhang, Tiger Zhang, William Zhang, Andrew Zhao, David Zhao, Jonathan Zheng and Jenny Zhu. Approximately 16,000 high school seniors were named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists for 2016, representing just over 1 percent of the 1.5 million juniors who took the 2014 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Three types of Merit Scholarship awards will be offered in 2016: National Merit $2,500 scholarships, corporate-sponsored scholarships, and college-sponsored scholarships. Merit Scholarship winners will be announced in spring 2016.
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n Jordan Blessing of Great Falls earned a bachelor of science degree in marketing and Kelly Fox of Oakton earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering during summer commencement exercises at Clemson University.
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