The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has announced that seven Broward County Public Schools students are among the approximately 800 Black American high school seniors who have won Achievement Scholarship awards through the National Achievement Scholarship Program.  Twenty-nine corporate organizations and professional associations have joined with the not-for-profit National Merit Scholarship Corporation to award a total of over $2 million in scholarships nationally.

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 each annual competition.

Recipients of $2,500 scholarships, their high schools and probable career fields include:

Marina E. Donyegro, Cooper City High School – Neuroscience
Devin N. Thomas, Atlantic Technical High School – Finance/Economics
Ingred Prince, Blanche Ely High School – Nursing/Healthcare Management
Ceshae C. Harding, College Academy @ Broward College – Medicine
Christopher R. Hylton, Miramar High School – Computer Science
Wade-Ann A. Morrison, Miramar High School – Actuarial Science
Alister Bent, Nova High School – Materials Science/Engineering

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