Semifinalists named for National Merit Scholarship Program
Many area students are among roughly 16,000 semifinalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
The high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for about 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million that will be offered next spring.
Here's a look at the semifinalists from the Fox Valley:
Algonquin (Jacobs): Nicolas Vallenas
Aurora (Illinois Math & Science Academy): Zachary Andersen, Surya Cannon, Bert Cao, Allen Chen, Daniel Chen, Joshua Eberhardt. Matthew Feinberg, Audrey Gallier, Kaushal Gumpula, Hanson Hao, Nathanael Kim, Liana Koleva, Leon Li, Andy Liu, Eva Liu, Katie Lu, Kevin Mikos, Harshavardhan Nalam, Rebecca Osar, Prachi Patil, Devika Prasad, Chetan Reddy, Faris Shaikh, Bharath Sreemivas, Shvetail Thatte, Srivinay Tummarakota, Anthony Un, Tommy Vadakumchery, Abigail VanderPloeg, Tanmayee Vegesna, Shubha Verma, Mareike Western, Kristin Wolford, John Woods and Annie Xu.
Aurora (Marmion Academy): Michael Neff.
Aurora (Metea Valley): Ankitha Damisetty, David James, Olivia Jaudes, Katleen Pankow, Svanik Tandon, Andrew Wang and Kevin Yu.
Aurora (Waubonsie Valley): Connie Chen. Michael Chen, Pranav Jaikumar, Soomin Kim, Shruti Kolli, Samyag Madrecha, Charles Olson, Mihir Rao, Ryan Ruhde, Eshan Shah and Crista Thyvelikakath.
Aurora (West Aurora): Benjamin Cuga.
Barrington (Barrington High): Michael R. Bedard, Justin J. Benjamin, Anthony D. Bernardi, Max A. Bowman, Sevan P. Brodjian, Kelly Corless, Nicholas S. Edels, Anita E. Gugulski, Lana Michelle J. Homola, Nicholas R. Huang, Thomas Huang, Akul Joshi, Colin M. Kim, Peter F. Lais, Olivia E. Lee, Tyler J. Moncek, Rishi T. Narayanan, Mark S. Nicoletti, Andrew T. Pan, Daniel J. Perille, Caleb J. Song, Adeline Y. Sun, Michelle Yang, and Steven Zhu.
Bartlett (Bartlett High): Alexa Mogan and Rachel A. Montesano
Cary (Cary-Grove): Calvin G. Berg and Oscar Martin A. Cortes
Crystal Lake (Crystal Lake Central): Aditya J. Khandeshi, Joshua C. Moore, and Arden T. Podpora.
Crystal Lake (Crystal Lake South): Dominik A. Bogacz, Scott P. Campbell, Daniel M. Minogue, Katherine A. Mutka, Trevor J. O'Connor, and Matthew E. Reall
Crystal Lake (Prairie Ridge): Ross N. Relic and Akash Sureshkumar
Elgin (Elgin High): Riya Kumar,
Elgin (St. Edward Central Catholic): Thomas M. Gallagher.
Geneva (Geneva High): Sofia N. Caruso and Stephanie P. Howe
Huntley (Huntley High): Aidan M. Beckford, Amanda C. Favila, and Harini V. Marchadi
Marengo (Marengo Community High): Emma Riedl
Oswego (home-school): Jason P. Jewell
Oswego (Oswego East): Vishal Rajesh
Oswego (Oswego High): Isabelle N. Christiansen
St. Charles (St. Charles East): Neehar Shah, Kayla Villa, and Ryan Wolfsmith
St. Charles (St. Charles North): Adrianna Bugliarello-Wondrich, Kaley Fulcher, and Brigid Millette
Woodstock (Marian Central Catholic): Joseph R. Noonan