See Worcester Students Who Are National Merit Semifinalists

Worcester MA

17 September, 2021

11:11 AM

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WORCESTER, MA — Students across Massachusetts were notified this week that they are semifinalists in this year's National Merit Scholarship Corp. (NMSC) competition, putting them on track to pick up college scholarships at the end of this school year. Of the 16,000 students nationwide (and a few hundred in this state) picked for the semifinalist round, about half will go on to earn scholarships in the spring. The scholarships can be worth thousands of dollars each, and some are backed by major corporations — locally, those include AbbVie, Raytheon and Siemens Corp. Here are some of the local students who made the semifinalist cut, according to the NMSC: Worcester Darren Belanger, Bancroft SchoolShayaan Chaudhary, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPIAndrew Lee, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPIJay Nagpaul, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPIKarthik Seetharaman, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPIAlina Shkurikhina, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPIChristopher Walsh, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPIJustin Wang, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPIAmy Wu, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPISophia Zhou, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI Marlborough Sruthi Kurada, Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School Framingham Sarah Downes, Framingham High SchoolLucas Gustafson, Framingham High SchoolOlivia Romito, Framingham High School Natick Aidan Duffy, Walnut Hill School Sudbury Sonali Das, Lincoln-Sudbury High SchoolNicola Donland, Lincoln-Sudbury High SchoolMadison Johnson, Lincoln-Sudbury High SchoolAmelia Pillar, Lincoln-Sudbury High SchoolSpencer Reith, Lincoln-Sudbury High SchoolJoy Ren, Lincoln-Sudbury High School Wayland Hannah Han, Wayland High SchoolJune Kim, Wayland High SchoolJoshua Zhang, Wayland High SchoolAshley Zhu, Wayland High School