District 214 proud of its 63 Merit students
District 214 has 11 students who have been named semifinalists in the 57th annual National Merit Scholarship Program; and another 52 have been named commended scholars.
The semifinalists are:
타 Buffalo Grove High School — Megan O’Donovan and Matthew Wilber.
타 Elk Grove High School — John Read and Antonio Petkov.
타 John Hersey High School — Catherine Kemp, Claire O’Donnell, Alexander Roznai and Grace Sinopoli.
타 Prospect High School — Owen Hoepfner, Marie Kaniecki and Connor Milligan.
They are among the 16,000 academically talented students in the nation who will now have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,300 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $34 million that will be offered next spring.
The commended scholars are:
Buffalo Grove High School — Nicholas Balko, Nicholas Boustead, Samantha Bulmash, Simon Campos, Grace Domzalski, Matthew Doran, Stephen Evensen, Nicole Gardner, Michael Kosk and Bernard Xie.
Elk Grove High School — Patrick Glennon, Kyle Scheffel and Joshua Wucki.
John Hersey High School — Thomas Cotey, Wesley Crim, Allison DeFrancesco, Michelle Grochocinski, Zavier Henry, Marie Hoeger, Natasha Kalafatis, Tyler Nocita, Christopher Pawlowski, Peter Saunders and Melanie Zagorski.
Prospect High School — Rachel Aron, Nicole Clark, Madeline Conway, Matthew Farrar, Connor Fitzgerald, Claire Goodrich, Brian Greene, Christine Grossman, Daniel Hindmand, Whitney Kiepura, Kathleen Maigler, Riley Mangan, David Pittman, Samantha Roberts, Colleen Thomas, Daniel Troutman and Julia Wolfe.
Rolling Meadows High School — Christina Crusius, Connor Gooding, Michael McKenna, Rahul Muttineni, Brendan Thielsen, Aleksander Tucker and Eric Ure.
Wheeling High School — Michael Boom, Daniel Brount, Lester Caramba and Rebecca Way.
Approximately 1.5 million juniors in some 22,000 high schools entered the 2012 NMSP last October by taking the 2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants.