National Merit Winners

From left to right, Board of Trustees President Don Ryan, Superintendent Dr. Mark Henry and Cy-Fair High School Principal Mike Smith congratulate a National Merit award winner during the February 2014 celebration at the Berry Center. The 2015 celebration is set for Feb. 2, 2015. 

Twenty-two CFISD students who were confirmed as semifinalists in the 60th annual National Merit Scholarship Program will be honored at a National Merit recognition program at the Berry Center on Monday, Feb. 2, 2015—along with Commended, National Hispanic and National Achievement scholars.

National Merit semifinalists from Cypress Creek High School are:Rebekah Cook, Travis Johnson, Naren Makkapati and Elliot Matson.

NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

The 22 semifinalists, of the 16,000 throughout the U.S. selected by officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, now have the opportunity to win one of approximately 8,000 Merit Scholarship awards. Semifinalists placed among the top 1 percent and Commended Students placed among the top 3 percent of about 1.5 million students who entered the Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) during their junior year. CFISD had 82 total Commended Students.

Cypress Creek High School’s Commended students are: Kaitlin Brown, Rose E. Campbell, Anna Donnelly, Jacob English, Peter Hymel, Jennie Kim, Rohit Mathilakath, Benjamin Moreman, Jennifer Ren, Connor Stockton Seymour and Amy Weinberg.

Cypress Ridge High School’s Commended students are: Alex Dantzler, M

THE NATIONAL HISPANIC RECOGNITION PROGRAM

The National Hispanic Recognition Program provides national recognition of the exceptional academic achievements of Hispanic high school seniors and identifies them for postsecondary institutions. Thirty-seven Hispanic Scholars have been recognized as Scholars by the College Board’s National Recognition Program.

They are among a select group of 5,000 of the highest-scoring students from more than 250,000 Hispanic/Latino high school juniors who took the PSAT/NMSQT.

From Cypress Creek High School, Julia Anderson was named a Hispanic Scholars.