Today, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) released the names of the first group of winners in the 69th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Among the nine winners in the State of Connecticut is Ridgefield resident Jack Lyons, a student at St. Luke’s School in New Canaan. Jack is the recipient of the National Merit Pepsico Foundation Scholarship.
Approximately 770 distinguished high school seniors have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards are financed by about 94 corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations.
Scholars were selected from students who advanced to the Finalist level in the National Merit Scholarship competition and met the criteria of their scholarship sponsors.
Corporate sponsors provide National Merit Scholarships for Finalists who are children of their employees, who are residents of communities the company serves, or who plan to pursue college majors or careers the sponsor wishes to encourage.
Learn more about the National Merit Scholarship Corporation https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/start.aspx?gid=2&pgid=61