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HISD Students Recognized as National Academic Award Winners

2010 honorees are from Bellaire, Carnegie, DeBakey, HSPVA, Lamar, and Westside

    
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Students at the 2010 National Academic Achievement Awards reception earned medals with yellow (National Achievement Scholarship), red (National Hispanic Recognition), or blue (National Merit Scholarship) ribbons to indicate their accomplishments.

Each year, HISD recognizes the many students who are finalists in the National Achievement Scholarship, National Hispanic Recognition, and National Merit Scholarship programs. This year, that ceremony took place at the Westin Oaks hotel on May 18, and 97 students were honored—15 percent more than in 2009.

The National Achievement Scholarship Program was created in 1964 to assist outstanding African-American students. The National Hispanic Recognition Program, established in 1994, identifies academically outstanding students of Hispanic descent. National Merit Scholarship Program finalists are selected from students who score the highest in each state on the PSAT/NMSQT.

Below are the 2010 honorees from HISD.

Bellaire High School


National Achievement Scholarship
  • Alithea McFarlane

National Hispanic Recognition

  • Jennifer Cartwright
  • Celeste Cleveland
  • Kimberly Estupinan
  • Gilbert Garcia
  • Siegfried Hirczy
  • Wolfgang Minskey
  • Daniela Myers- Guzman
  • Sarah Rodriguez
  • Nicholas Schakel
  • Matias Schakel
  • Ericka Vazquez

National Merit Scholarship

  • Celina Aldape
  • Shayna Berkowitz
  • Joshua Chang
  • Karen Ding
  • George Fan
  • Shuo Feng
  • Liang Gu
  • Tiffany Huang
  • Kara Ing
  • Katherine Kabotyanski
  • Lumeng Li
  • Scott Lin
  • Henry Lu
  • Louise Lu
  • David Mao
  • Ian Mauzy
  • Georgia McLendon
  • Jimmy Moon
  • Erik Nelson
  • Mengwei Ni
  • Joseph Ong
  • Cassie Pan
  • Wilma Qiu
  • Joshua Rozner
  • Leonardo Setyanto
  • Rhiana Smith
  • Evan Srnka
  • Sharon Sun
  • Zhuyi Sun
  • Edgar Walters
  • Caroline Weisman
  • Dennis Wu
  • Ann Zhu
  • Zhida Zhu

Carnegie Vanguard High School


National Achievement Scholarship
  • Joshua Echebiri

National Hispanic Recognition

  • Gilberto Garcia
  • Nancy Pohl
  • Luz Rocha
  • Megan Salazar
  • Kendall Wright
  • Marisol Yanez

National Merit Scholarship

  • Larissa Little

DeBakey High School for Health Professions


National Achievement Scholarship
  • Sierra Clark
  • Chibuzo Onwuzuruike
  • Jennifer Onyi Oradiegwu
  • Olumayowa Willoughby

National Hispanic Recognition

  • Emily Areta
  • Pricilla De La Torre
  • Carolina Lobo
  • Abel Lopez
  • Gustavo Resendiz
  • Evelin Turcios

National Merit Scholarship

  • Kshitij Desai
  • Alexander Kortum
  • Chibuzo Onwuzuruike
  • Abdullah Shaikh
  • Fatima Syed
  • Eric Yuan

High School for the Performing and Visual Arts


National Achievement Scholarship
  • Leslie Thibodeaux
  • Phillip Young

National Merit Scholarship

  • Krucial Styslinger
  • Ellen Taylor
  • Javier Vazquez-Trejo

Lamar High School


National Achievement Scholarship
  • Lehlohonolo Mosola
  • Sesenu Woldemariam

National Hispanic Recognition

  • Paul Bunch
  • Alexandra Castro
  • Juan Cavazos
  • Joshua Lopez
  • Elena Vann

National Merit Scholarship

  • Paul Bunch
  • Ross Michie-Derrick
  • Tonhu Nguyen
  • Austin Taghavi
  • Travis Taghavi
  • Sesenu Woldemariam
  • Christopher Woodard

Westside High School


National Achievement Scholarship
  • Nique Robinson

National Hispanic Recognition

  • Raul Molina
  • Alexander Oriani
  • Nique Robinson
  • Veronica Seng

National Merit Scholarship

  • Niloufar Hafizi
  • Yu-di Lin
  • Garrett Reddin
  • Caroline Straub
  • Will Watson
  • Lisa White