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Area High Schoolers Make National Merit Finals
Sixteen of 23 Rockwood School District finalists in this year's National Merit Scholarship competition are from Eureka or Wildwood.
In the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Competition, 23 high school students achieved Finalist standing, according to a district announcement.
National Merit finalists from are:
- Christopher Dieckhaus
- James Huang
- Brandon Sprenger
- Connor Tinen
National Merit finalists from are:
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- Elizabeth Denn
- Danielle Lamar
- Richard Lu
- Christopher Moody
- Eric Moser
- Dallin Robinson
- Tyler Romero
- Brandon Sinanan
- Deck Slone
- Jessica Zadoks
- Paroma Zaman
- Jacob Zerr
Editor's Note: The other seven Rockwood students are from Marquette High.
More than 1.5 million juniors from 22,000-plus high schools entered the 2012 National Merit Scholarship competition when they took the 2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), which served as an initial screen of program entrants.
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As finalists, students can earn National Merit $2,500 scholarships, corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards and college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards.
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