FBISD lists 59 National Merit finalists
	Published 05:30 a.m., Monday, April 13, 2009
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	Fort Bend ISD National Merit finalists named05.01.2008 05:30 a.m.
	Fort Bend Independent School District officials announced that the district has 59 students who have been named finalists in the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Program.
	They are among more than 1.5 million high school students in more than 21,000 U.S. high schools who entered the 2009 Merit Program by taking the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test and who were named semifinalists.
	Fort Bend ISD’s finalists by campus are:
	• Austin High School: Prachi Bhawalkar, Amanda Callahan, Nirav Mehta and Nicholas Zhang
	• Bush High School: Neil Thakral
	• Clements High School: Taahir Ahmed, Andrew Badachhape, Shreya Balhara, Justin Banerdt,Natasha Bhatia, Christopher Chan, Hamsika Chandrasekar, Eileen Chen, Jia Chen, Christopher Clark, Ivan Davydychev, Gaurav Dhar, Anand Divakaruni, Emily Guo, Aashish Jain, Karen Jong, Brady Kirchof, Allen Lee, Princeton Lee, Vincent Liu, Ann Lord, Dennis Mou, Connie Qin,Munis Rashid, Ian Roy, Joshua Tsau, Audrey Wang, Mary Warren, Donna Xiao, Jingru Yan,Patrick Yan, Sue Yeh, Christine Younan, Chenxi Zhang, Haoshuang Zhang, Julianne Zhang and Mark Zhang.
	• Dulles High School: John Charlesworth, Jeffrey Chen, Jeffrey Feng, Charlene Lam and Kenny Lam
	• Elkins High School: Michael Levin
	• Hightower High School: Rahul Kamath
	• Kempner High School: Conrad Chau, Meng Chen, Kendrice James, Yuqiang Mu and Bryan Zubay
	• Travis High School: Riju Agrawal, Tuongvy Dang, Steven Lauck, Alice Yang and Kah Yangni
	The 8,200 National Merit Scholarship individual awards have the combined worth of $35 million, and the winners will be announced in April and May.
	Fifty-nine FBISD 2009 National Merit Semifinalists Named
	The Fort Bend Independent School District is proud to announce the names of 59
	FBISD students who have been named semifinalists in the 2009 National Merit
	Scholarship Program. The 59 FBISD semifinalists are among more than 1.5 million
	high school juniors in more than 21,000 United States high schools who entered the
	2009 Merit Program by taking the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
	The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, which represents less than one percent of
	U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state.
	Fort Bend ISD's 2009 National Merit semifinalists by campus are:
	•	Austin High School – Prachi Bhawalkar, Amanda Callahan, Nirav Mehta and Nicholas Zhang
	•	Bush High School – Neil Thakral
	•	Clements High School – Taahir Ahmed, Andrew Badachhape, Shreya Balhara, Justin Banerdt,
	Natasha Bhatia, Christopher Chan, Hamsika Chandrasekar, Eileen Chen, Jia Chen,
		Christopher Clark, Ivan Davydychev, Gaurav Dhar, Anand Divakaruni, Emily Guo, Aashish Jain,
		Karen Jong, Brady Kirchof, Allen Lee, Princeton Lee, Vincent Liu, Ann Lord, Dennis Mou,
		Connie Qin, Munis Rashid, Ian Roy, Joshua Tsau, Audrey Wang, Mary Warren, Donna Xiao,
		Jingru Yan, Patrick Yan, Sue Yeh, Christine Younan, Chenxi Zhang, Haoshuang Zhang,
		Julianne Zhang and Mark Zhang.
	•	Dulles High School – John Charlesworth, Jeffrey Chen, Jeffrey Feng, Charlene Lam and Kenny Lam
	• Elkins High School – Michael Levin
	•	Hightower High School – Rahul Kamath
	•	Kempner High School – Conrad Chau, Meng Chen, Kendrice James, Yuqiang Mu, and Bryan Zubay
	•	Travis High School – Riju Agrawal, Tuongvy Dang, Steven Lauck, Alice Yang and Kah Yangni
	These high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for 8,200
	Merit® Scholarship awards, worth $35 million, that will be offered next spring.