Fremont National Merit Scholarships: 2024 Corporate-Sponsored Awards

FREMONT, CA — Four Fremont students received corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards financed by about 94 corporations, foundations, and business organizations. They 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.

The students were 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.

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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 Fremont winners include three who attend Fremont Unified School District high schools and a fourth student who attends a private school in San Jose.

• Hannah Chen, Notre Dame H.S. in San Jose: Probable career field — Biomedical Engineering. Chen was awarded the National Merit Jerry R. Junkins Memorial Scholarship. "As one of the world's leading high technology companies, Texas Instruments and its employees have strong commitments to supporting excellence in education at all levels. To recognize and reward educational excellence and achievement by our students and their families, each child of a TI employee who achieves Finalist status in the National Merit Program is awarded a TI Foundation-sponsored Merit Scholarship award."
• Linwoo Kim, American H.S. in Fremont: Probable career field — Engineering. Kim 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."
• Pratyush Mathur, Irvington H.S. in Fremont: Probable career field — Computer Science. Mathur 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 intelligencebrain 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."
• Heng Yang, American H.S. in Fremont: Probable career field — Physics. Yang was also 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 intelligencebrain 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."