Alameda National Merit Scholarship: 2024 Corporate-Sponsored Award

ALAMEDA, CA — An Alameda High School student received a corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship award financed by Nvidia. The announcement was made on Wednesday.

About 94 corporations, foundations, and business organizations fund the corporate-sponsored scholarships. Recipients are either children of employees, residents of the communities served by the companies, or plan to pursue college majors or careers the companies wish to encourage.

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The student is among 770 high school seniors nationally who advanced to the finalist level.

In September, more than 16,000 semifinalists were selected on the basis of their PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test scores. To advance to the finalist round, semifinalists needed to have an outstanding academic record, be endorsed or recommended by a high school official, and earn SAT or ACT scores that confirm their qualifying test performance.

The awards range from $1,000 to $10,000 per year, and most are renewable for up to four years at an accredited college or university.

The Alameda winner is Bella R. Goldwasser, a student at Alameda High School, whose Probable career field is Environmental Science. She was awarded the National Merit Nvidia Corporation Scholarship. "NVIDIA, based in Silicon Valley, is igniting the next era of computing with its invention, the GPU, acting as the artificial intelligence brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars. NVIDIA's Merit Scholarship awards recognize outstanding students who are the children of its employees - and reflect the company's commitment to its employees, their families, and higher education."