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CCISD High School Students Earn National Honors

By Clear Creek Independent School District

November 23, 2005

League City, TX—Clear Creek ISD has 26 high school students who have qualified as National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists and 64 high school students who received commended status based upon their academic achievements.

The National Merit® Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. High school students enter the National Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®). This test serves as an initial screen of approximately 1.3 million entrants each year. Students must also meet published program entry/participation requirements.

The students who are semifinalists are in the top one half of one percent of American High School seniors. These scholastically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,200 Merit Scholarship® awards, worth $33 million, that will be offered next spring.

To be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements and advance to the Finalist level of the competition. About 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will be selected as Merit Scholarship winners, earning the Merit Scholar® title.

2006 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

Alexander Altman, Clear Brook High School

Roy Arguelles, Clear Brook High School

Mary Barnes, Clear Brook High School

Angela Barratt, Clear Creek High School

Alex Barry, Clear Lake High School

Emily Chen, Clear Lake High School

Alina Daszkowski, Clear Lake High School

Neha Deshpande, Clear Lake High School

Kevin Grier, Clear Creek High School

Juliette Jeanfreau, Clear Lake High School

Kirsten Jones, Clear Lake High School

Alex Karjeker, Clear Lake High School

Tristan Kreutzberg, Clear Lake High School

Stephen Li Clear, Brook High School

Vikas Lonakadi, Clear Lake High School

Rui Mao, Clear Lake High School

Lisa Neigut, Clear Lake High School

Sima Patel, Clear Brook High School

Timothy Phillips, Clear Lake High School

Ravi Pinjala, Clear Lake High School

Roxanne Radi, Clear Creek High School

Vani Rajendran, Clear Creek High School

Scott Shearouse, Clear Lake High School

Thika Tran, Clear Lake High School

Stephen Yu, Clear Lake High School

Luisa Zhou, Clear Brook High School

2006 National Merit Scholarship Commended Students

More than two-thirds or about 34,000 of the approximately 50,000 high scorers on the PSAT/NMSQT® receive Letters of Commendation in recognition of their outstanding academic promise. Commended Students are named on the basis of a nationally applied Selection Index score that may vary from year to year and is below the level required for participants to be named Semifinalists in their respective states. Although Commended Students do not continue in the competition for Merit Scholarship® awards, some of these students do become candidates for Special Scholarships sponsored by corporations and businesses.

Vinay Acharya, Clear Lake High School

Micah Adams, Clear Creek High School

Irissa Allen, Clear Brook High School

Madelyn Bagby, Clear Lake High School

Corinna Bahr, Clear Lake High School

Jason Beeler, Clear Lake High School

Julie Berna, Clear Brook High School

Lisa Bradbury, Clear Lake High School

Whitney Cansler, Clear Lake High School

Amy Cheben, Clear Lake High School

Alex Christian, Clear Creek High School

David Cooper, Clear Lake High School

Gene Dan, Clear Lake High School

Casey Ellis, Clear Creek High School

Brandon Fried, Clear Creek High School

Carissa Fritz, Clear Lake High School

Jing Ge, Clear Lake High School

Shelby Gross, Clear Lake High School

Christopher Hancock, Clear Lake High School

Ross Harkness, Clear Lake High School

Amanda Henson, Clear Lake High School

Aaron Janecke, Clear Lake High School

Lauren Jeang, Clear Lake High School

Vignesh, Kannan, Clear Lake High School

Avni Kapadia, Clear Lake High School

Rashish Khatri, Clear Brook High School

Daniel Kingery, Clear Creek High School

Matthew Koller, Clear Lake High School

Ilyse Kornblau, Clear Lake High School

Aswathi Kumar, Clear Lake High School

Steven Lee, Clear Brook High School

Luke Legeaux, Clear Lake High School

Bruno Lesage, Clear Lake High School

Daniel Lin, Clear Lake High School

Crystal Liu, Clear Lake High School

Anna Lopez, Clear Creek High School

Nicholas Mellin, Clear Lake High School

Hunter Moliver, Clear Lake High School

Adam Morgan, Clear Lake High School

Sarita Panchang, Clear Lake High School

Dennis Polyakov, Clear Creek High School

Rachel Quinlan, Clear Lake High School

Adrian Rami, Clear Brook High School

Serena Reiser, Clear Lake High School

Brendan Scott, Clear Brook High School

Katherine Scully, Clear Brook High School

Quing Sheng, Clear Brook High School

Amar Singh, Clear Lake High School

Emilia Stepinski, Clear Brook High School

Craig Thompson, Clear Lake High School

Amanda Thomson, Clear Lake High School

Cristina Tortarolo, Clear Lake High School

Michael Treimanm, Clear Lake High School

Joanna Tsenn, Clear Lake High School

Megan Turley, Clear Lake High School

Ryan Turley, Clear Brook High School

Michael Urbanowich, Clear Brook High School

Michael Waehner,Clear Brook High School

Philip Walk, Clear Creek High School

Frank Wang, Clear Lake High School

James Wang, Clear Lake High School

Jennifer Wetherbee, Clear Lake High School

Austin Yancy, Clear Creek High School

Linda Yang, Clear Lake High School

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