Fort Bend Independent School District
	NEWS RELEASE
	FROM COMMUNITY RELATIONS
	Nancy Porter, Director of Communications
	nancy.porter@fortbendisd.com 281.634.1100
	** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE **
	Sixty-seven FBISD 2010 National Merit Semifinalists Named
	FORT BEND ISD – The Fort Bend Independent School District is proud to announce the names
	of 67 FBISD students who have been named semifinalists in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship
	Program. The 67 FBISD semifinalists are among more than 1.5 million high school juniors in
	more than 22,000 United States high schools who entered the 2010 Merit Program by taking the
	PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, which
	represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring
	entrants in each state.
	Fort Bend ISD's 2010 National Merit semifinalists by campus are:
	Austin High School – Can Ardic, Wayne Chang, Audrey Chao, Bernard Goal, Allison
	Joffrion, Mary Knewtson, Michelle Li, Matthew Scribe, Komal Sheth, Nathan Truong, Amy
	Wang, Christopher Xiao, and Ge Yang;
	Clements High School – Jeffrey Chan, Hao-Tse Chen, Rebekah Cramerus, Andrew
	Herzog, Michael Hu, Henry Hwang, Chandni Kaushik, Gaurav Kikani, Kyle Krueger, Chun
	Leung, Katharine Li, Zheng Li, Kevin Lin, Jialing Lu, Siddharth Mullick, Alan Pan, Shree
	Pandya, Lu Peng, Sneha Raju, Robert Tolle, Albertine Wang, Amy Wang, David Wu,
	Sihang Wu, Yujing Wu, Luch Xie, Allison Yeh, Chenxi You, Jay Young, Edward Zhou,
	and Wenbei Zhou;
	Dulles High School – Laura Bolling, Hongjing Cao, Sasha Chada, Alan Harkins, Chris
	Javier, Olivia Kwong, Stephen Ogier, Angela Song, Richard Sun, Calvin Szeto, Jonathan
	Williamson and Michael Zhu;
	Elkins High School – Anirudh Chiti, David Kronenberger, and Eric Yu;
	Hightower High School – Joshua Ouseph;
	Kempner High School – Dan Dao, Hojoon Lee, Denise Li and Andre Treiber, and;
	Travis High School – Nasir Adaya, Shanay Kapadia and Parth Upadhyay.
	These high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for 8,200 Merit®
	Scholarship awards, worth $36 million, that will be offered next spring.