Four NA Seniors Named Members of
Prestigious Class of 2016 Coca-Cola
Scholars
NASD is proud to announce that teams from Marshall Middle
School and Ingomar Middle School claimed First Place and Third
Place respectively at the 2016 Allegheny County MATHCOUNTS
Competition, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Society for
Professional Engineers.
Students Jiangfeng Chu, George Jiang, Glen Jiang and Cindy Li
were members of the Marshall Middle School team that claimed
First Place. Ashley Chung, Teresa Huang, Nicole McGaa and
Jiaji Wang were the students from Ingomar Middle School that
claimed Third Place. Jiaji Wang was also recognized as the First
Place individual student in the competition. As the First Place
Team and the First Place Individual, the Marshall Middle School
team and Jiaji Wang will head to Harrisburg to compete in the
state competition.
Twenty-One NA Students Advance to
Finalist State of National Merit Scholarship
Competition
NASD proudly announces that all 21 senior high school
students named National Merit Semi-Finalists by the National
Merit® Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) in Sept. 2015 have
advanced to the Finalist stage in the 2016 National Merit
Scholarship Competition. Each of the students has received a
Certificate of Merit for meeting all the requirements to be named
a Finalist and will be considered for National Merit Scholarships,
which will be offered in the upcoming months. Finalist students
are:
Stephen Baime
Sophia Lee
Guanlin Ren
Thomas Bina
Sarah Luo
Russell Ruffolo
Joie Feng
Jasmine Mahajan
Keerthana
Anna Iouchmanov James McGaa
Samanthapudi
Grace Jin
Zain Mehdi
Kevin Stiles
Benjamin
Eric Mi
Andrew Xu
Klingensmith
Siddarth Narayan
Joe Zhao
Jeewon Lee
Ashwin Reddy
The National Merit® Scholarship Program is an academic
competition for recognition and scholarships that began in
1955. High school students enter the National Merit Program by
taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying
Test (PSAT/NMSQT®)—a test which serves as an initial screen of
The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation has named four seniors
at North Allegheny Senior High School among the prestigious
class of 2016 Coca-Cola Scholars, awarding them each a $20,000
college scholarship.
Grace Jin, Sophia Lee, Ashwin Reddy and Gabe Ren were
selected from a national pool of more than 87,000 applicants for
their superior leadership and dedication to their community. They
are four of 150 high school students selected from across the
United States as members of the 28th class of Coca-Cola Scholars.
This year, North Allegheny Senior High School is one of just
four high schools in Pennsylvania with students recognized by
the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation, and is the only school in the
nation to have more than two students named to the 2016 class.
On Mar. 31, all four students joined other Coca-Cola Scholars
as they traveled to Atlanta, GA., for Scholars Weekend. During
this four-day weekend, the Scholars participated in a Leadership
Development Institute to further develop their leadership skills,
tour local landmarks, engage with former Coca-Cola Scholars
and participate in a group community service project. The 2016
Class of Coca-Cola Scholars will also be the guests of honor at
the 28th annual Scholars Banquet, where they will be celebrated
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