The National Merit Scholarship Corp. recently announced semifinalists in the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The semifinalists will compete for 8,300 scholarships offered next spring.
Local students include Heather Odell, Auburn Mountainview High School; Caleb Eades, Tahoma High School; Alexander Anderson, Federal Way High School; Stefan Carey, Harry S. Truman High School; Jasper Vaughn, Gig Harbor High School; Kyle Woo, Kentlake High School; Kami Bates, Northwest Christian High School; Shweta Dixit, Capital High School; Corbin Foster, William Hoza and Tiffany Lloyd, Olympia High School; Alaina Peters, Black Hills High School; Brian Pinkard, Puyallup High School; Jinsung Kim and Fiona Reid, Bellarmine Preparatory School; Daphne Chen, Henry Foss High School; Dustin Merrill, Wilson High School; Nicole Ebalo, Anthony Wohns and Sarah Yamamoto, Charles Wright Academy; Emily Lund, Dylan MacKenzie and Sarah Olive-McStay, Tumwater High School; and Austin Rodgers, Curtis High School.
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