Students named Nat’l Merit semifinalists

Broward County Public Schools has announced that 53 of its students made it to the semifinal round for the National Merit Scholarship. They belong to a pool of 16,000 students nationwide who acheived the highest scores when taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test as juniors in 2016.

The following local students made the semifinals:

Eric A. Engelhart from Atlantic Technical High School; Yael Kamio from Coral Glades High School; Jake R. Shipe from Coral Springs High School; Vayun Hapati, Simon A. Hoo, Zachary Huang, Jonathan R. Hutton, Aeva C. Jazic, Nikhita Nookala, Carmen M. Schentrup,Bryan P. Tobin, Celya O. Walker and Devon Wiesenfeld from Stoneman Douglas High school; and Chelsey Gerena and Destiny R. Rochester from J.P. Taravella High School.

Hugh W. Dennin, Joie L. Meyer and Matthew N. Plonskier from Cooper City High School.

Vikasni Mohan from Pompano Beach High School.

Michael J. Fero and Jayanne Forest from Fort Lauderdale High School.

Andre Gomez from William T. McFatter High School; Ashleigh D. Plasencia from South Plantation High School; amd Sydney H. Leiter and Agustina Vincent de Urquiza from Western High School.

William M. Braga, Andrew C. Braxton, Ryan F. Bush, Isabella Chiurillo, Sydnie S. Cohen, Hannah Kang, Andrew Kennedy, Lance E. Kotler, Tyler Kotler, Joseph Li, Richard T. Liu, Dylan S. Lyon, Christian A. Pichardo, Hannah Rothbard, Caleb Wong, Zachary J. Wurtenberger and Zonshen Yu from Cypress Bay High School; Jaeson P. Alcoriza, Payton Restrepo and Rocky H. Shiu from Everglades High School; Jeremy M. Glick from Charles W. Flanagan High Shcool; Brian A. Williams from Miramar High School; and Alyssa F. Cavazos, Fabiana A. Corse, Robert Cuba, Nina E. Fernandez, Tyler Metzger and Joshua R. Vogel from West Broward High School.

— Krislyn Placide