See Framingham Students Who Are National Merit Semifinalists

FRAMINGHAM, MA — Students across Massachusetts were notified this week that they are semifinalists in this year's National Merit Scholarship Corp. (NMSC) competition, putting them on track to pick up college scholarships at the end of this school year.

Of the 16,000 students nationwide (and a few hundred in this state) picked for the semifinalist round, about half will go on to earn scholarships in the spring. The scholarships can be worth thousands of dollars each, and some are backed by major corporations — locally, those include AbbVie, Raytheon and Siemens Corp.

Here are some of the local students who made the semifinalist cut, according to the NMSC:

Framingham

• Sarah Downes, Framingham High School
• Lucas Gustafson, Framingham High School
• Olivia Romito, Framingham High School

Marlborough

• Sruthi Kurada, Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School

Natick

• Aidan Duffy, Walnut Hill School

Sudbury

• Sonali Das, Lincoln-Sudbury High School
• Nicola Donland, Lincoln-Sudbury High School
• Madison Johnson, Lincoln-Sudbury High School
• Amelia Pillar, Lincoln-Sudbury High School
• Spencer Reith, Lincoln-Sudbury High School
• Joy Ren, Lincoln-Sudbury High School

Wayland

• Hannah Han, Wayland High School
• June Kim, Wayland High School
• Joshua Zhang, Wayland High School
• Ashley Zhu, Wayland High School

Worcester

• Darren Belanger, Bancroft School
• Shayaan Chaudhary, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI
• Andrew Lee, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI
• Jay Nagpaul, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI
• Karthik Seetharaman, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI
• Alina Shkurikhina, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI
• Christopher Walsh, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI
• Justin Wang, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI
• Amy Wu, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI
• Sophia Zhou, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI