Austin Area Students Are National Merit Scholarship Winners

Austin TX

21 April, 2021

9:00 AM

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AUSTIN, TX — Austin area students have been named winners for the 2021 corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship Program. The winners were announced on Wednesday and include approximately 1,000 high-school seniors from across the U.S. According to a press release from the National Merit Scholarship Program, the corporate scholarships are financed by about 140 corporations, company foundations and other business organizations. The awards are renewable for up to four years of undergraduate study and students get a stipend that's anywhere between $1,000 - $10,000 each year. Some of the awards include a single payment between $2,500-$5,000. More than 1.5 million students applied for the highly competitive scholarship and the program says that around 7,500 students will go on to win scholarships in 2021 that total $30 million. Winners of the $2,500 scholarships and the college-sponsored scholarships will be announced later this year. Here are the Austin area winners for the corporate-sponsored scholarships: Emilia G. Adcock of Austin (National Merit Scholarship)Sachin Murthy Allums of Austin (National Merit CACI Scholarship)Patrick Douglas Devaney of Austin (National Merit 3M Scholarship)Ashira Edelheit-Rice of Austin (National Merit Nvidia Corporation Scholarship)Joseph A. Gillett of Austin (National Merit 3M Scholarship)Vikram A. Joshi of Austin (National Merit 3M Scholarship)Shreyas Kumar of Austin (National Merit New York Life Family Scholarship)Miguel O. Liu-Schiaffini of Austin (National Merit Battelle Scholarship)Jessica L. Math of Austin (National Merit United Services Automobile Association Scholarship)Vincent Moroz of Austin (National Merit Ascension Scholarship)Maanas Shah of Austin (National Merit CDK Global, LLC Scholarship)Evelyn J. Tjoa of Austin (National Merit Emerson Electric Co. Scholarship)Hayden J. Tomazin of Austin (National Merit Nvidia Corporation Scholarship)Athena J. Wang of Austin (National Merit Walgreen Co. Scholarship)Michael Wang of Austin (National Merit Emerson Electric Co. Scholarship)Kayla Gillen of Leander (National Merit Rockwell Automation Scholarship)A total of 16,000 students were selected as finalists for the scholarships and the final winners are candidates "judged to have the strongest combination of academic skills and achievements, extracurricular accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies."