District celebrates 28 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists
Orange County Public Schools is celebrating 28 seniors from eight OCPS high schools chosen as semifinalists for the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program. The students listed below were among more than 1.6 million juniors in an estimated 22,000 high schools who took the preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test last year and met program participation requirements.
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Boone
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Olympia
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Windermere
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Sean McCabe
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Kallen Cunningham
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Guilherme Bejar
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James Moore
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Neta Epstein
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Aaryn Brown
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Cypress Creek
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Elle Ferguson
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Julia Kendall
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Sadat Kasem
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Pavan Iyengar
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Zachariah Wade
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Samitha Kosanam
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Alesha Wallen
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Winter Park
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Conor O'Malley
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Timber Creek
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Hussain Khalil
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Dr. Phillips
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Monet Jowers
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Binh Pham
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Jordan Kocarek
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Grace Lee
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Angelica Sanchez
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Griffin Martin
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Meghan Lin
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Brenton Zhang
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Lake Nona
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Natalie Longtin
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Shamika Chavda
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Benjamin Martinez
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Scott Gregory
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Wanqi Yuan
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These seniors now have an opportunity to continue in the competition for one of 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million that will be offered in the spring. To advance as a finalist, the semifinalists and their high school must submit a detailed scholarship application proving academic and leadership abilities throughout high school. Finalist names will be announced beginning in the spring of 2020.