District 214 Acknowledges Commended Students in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program

     The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) has honored 52 District 214 students as Commended Scholars in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program (NMSP), one of the most esteemed scholastic competitions in the nation. The distinction is based on students' scores from the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) taken in October 2012. Approximately 34,000 high performers have been named Commended Students throughout the nation and are recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2014 competition for National Merit scholarships, Commended Students placed among the top five-percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the competition by taking the PSAT/NMSQT.  As demonstrated by their outstanding performance in this competitive program, they represent some of the most academically talented students in the country. The honorees are as follows:

Buffalo Grove High School—Daron Bedian, Natalie Brottman, Steven Donnewald, Sarah Kats, Molly Meyer, Laleh Omaraie, Justin Opperman, Calvin Perkins, Daniel Ritter, Jake Siebert, Jessica Sparacino, Daniel Weiner, and Mark Esquivel (Commended & National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar)

Elk Grove High School—Kaitlyn Roth, Thomas Sijimon, Katarina Weber, and Olivia Fritz (Commended & National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar)

John Hersey High School—Erick Berg, Brian Carman, Michael Fuerst, Nicholas Huene, Junwon Jang, Daniel Kapinos, Kevin Kapinos, Matthew Lazarski, Ajie Mathew, Megan Nocita, Rino Nozawa, Rachel Prostko, Lauren Solberg, Marie Spychala, Matthew Stadnicki, Maureen Sullivan, Serena Voltz, and Maximilian Zoia

Prospect High School—Edmund Brady, Ryan Klaus, Callie Leone, Philip Masini, Kush Patel, Ian Rose, Jennifer Ruda, Shane Ryan, Maria Santiago, Mary Schiavone, and

Devin Zhu

Rolling Meadows High Schoolz— Kasey Powers and Roman Voskoboynikov

Wheeling High School— Matthew Kulczak, Skyler McLehahan, Michael Onyszczak, and

Justin Webb