Redmond Student Wins $2,500 National Achievement Scholarship

Editor's Note: The following is a news release from the .

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced today that Shelby Jennings, a student at International Community School, and Elizabeth Alexander, a Redmond resident who attends Lake Washington High School, are two of 800 outstanding black American high school seniors who have won Achievement Scholarships through the National Achievement Scholarship Program. 

These awards, totaling more than $2 million, are being financed by grants from 29 corporate organizations and professional associations, and by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Jennings and Alexander both received National Achievement $2,500 scholarships supported by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

The National Achievement Scholarship Program is a privately financed academic competition established in 1964 specifically to honor scholastically talented black American youth, and to provide scholarships to a substantial number of the most outstanding participants in the annual National Merit Scholarship competition.