2006 FBISD National Merit Semifinalists
	The Fort Bend Independent School District is proud to announce the names of 54 FBISD
	students who have been named semifinalists in the 2006 National Merit Scholarship
	Program. The 54 FBISD semifinalists are among more than 1.3 million students in over
	21,000 United States high schools who entered the Merit Program as juniors by taking
	the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Using this qualifying test as an
	initial screen of program entrants, the highest scorers in each state were designated
	semifinalists, in numbers representing less than one percent of the state's high
	school graduating class. Fort Bend ISD's semifinalists by campus are:
	Austin High School – Ravi Antani, Ellen Blinka, Vicki Chang, David Fischer, Kevin Le, Jocelyn
	Lee, Anissa Meher-Homji, Kevin Penner, Srikanth Thiyagarajan, and Jing Zhou
	Clements High School – Kevin Butler, Darshan Chellaram, Ho Cheung, Yan-Wing Cheung, Heidi
	Farrell, Stephen Gilbert, Megan Harris, Shirin Hasan, Tzu-Hsuan Hsiung, Jason Hsu,
	Wei-Chun Hsu, Xiaolin Jia, Yang Mou, Shirley Pan, Vickram Patel, Henry Ran, Thomas
	Saller, Edward Sohn, Ritu Varadarajan, Samuel Waldo, and Xincheng Zheng
	Dulles High School – Elizabeth Bolen, Douglas Jeffers, Karl Jun, Yuxuan Lin, Christopher Kennedy
	McClure, Chaya Murali, Megan Sanguinetti, Cong Shu, Jacob Terry, Michael Vu, Kevin
	Wu, Cynthia Xu, and Kathy Zhang
	Elkins High School – Michael Font, Cathy Gao, Rebecca Jensen, and Robert Prochnow
	Hightower High School – Rupak Chakraborty, Joy Chou, and Nirav Sanghani
	Kempner High School – Rebecca Scofield, Xin Si, and Crystal Yang
	Semifinalists who meet eligibility standards (students must submit an application,
	high school record, and SAT I scores among other requirements) will be among the
	15,000 National Merit Finalists named in February 2006.