LANSDALE – 23 students from the North Penn School District have been named as semifinalists in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Competition (NMSC). Out of the 1.5 million students who took the PSAT qualifying exam in October 2013, 16,000 are named semi-finalists in the country. Selected semifinalists represent less than one percent of high school seniors in the country. These academically talented high school seniors will now have an opportunity to continue in the competition for more than 7,600 available National Merit Scholarships worth more than $33 million. These students were selected based on the ability to show exceptional academic talent and potential for success in rigorous college studies. The following students are North Penn’s semifinalists:

Hannah Ambrose

Michael Cha

Kevin Chen

Damian Dhanaraj

Alexander DiStefano

Mallory Dubus

Anthony Flores

Seung Han

Sara Huzar

Serena Jiang

Tina Le

Patrick Lockwood

Kriya Patel

Rudmila Rashid

Austin Redilla

Darsh Shah

Ellen Shi

Radhika Sinha

Tara Sorman

Alonso Trejo-Mora

Ryan Tung

Alina Yu

Hankun Zhao

The National Merit Scholarship Award recipients will be honored at a breakfast in late October. The date is yet to be announced. The North Penn School District is still waiting for this year’s list of commended recipients, which is scheduled to be released later this month. Once the district is informed, these additional student names will be announced as well.