78 qualify as National Merit semifinalists
Advertiser Staff
In Hawai'i, 78 high school seniors qualified as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists this year.
These semifinalists are among the 16,000 nationwide that now can compete for 8,000 Merit Scholarship awards worth more than $32 million. To qualify as semifinalists, high school students take the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test in the fall of their junior year. Semifinalists are the highest-scoring entrants in each state and represent the top 1 percent of the state's seniors. Winners will be announced in the spring.
At Punahou School, 27 seniors qualified as semifinalists. Iolani School has the second-highest number of semifinalists, with 25.
The following Hawai'i seniors are 2002 semifinalists:
Henry P. Baldwin High School — Justin Delima.
Hawai'i Baptist Academy — Marcia Ciccone.
Hilo High School — Shannon Iyo.
Hawai'i Preparatory Academy — Jonathan Hutchinson.
home school — Sandra Ahn.
Iolani School — Aaron Aoyama, Pamela Carlton, Sarah Damerville, Robin Dawson, Dana Fassler, Brandon Fukuda, Sean Garcia, Bryan Ho, Meghan Hong, Ivy Hsu, Eric Ideta, Jessica Kato, Blake Kawamoto, Krista Kiyosaki, Casey Kunimura, Christopher Leong, Justin Murakami, Jasmine Nakagawa, Ricky Nguyen, Nathaniel Noda, Christopher Tuthill, Xin Yin, David Yoshida, Kristal Young, Nathaniel Young.
Kaiser High School — Eva Constantaras, Vallent Lee.
Kalani High School — William Howes.
Kamehameha Secondary Schools — Jesse Barros, Kira Lee, Michelle Lyman, Adrian Martin, Jordan-Ryan Medeiros, Russell Soon.
Kealakehe High School — Leilani Lee Loy.
Maui High School — Christopher Ling.
McKinley High School — Aaron Hamer.
Moanalua High School — Raymond Liu, Christopher Mikesell.
Pearl City High School — Jill Kobashigawa.
Punahou School — Erin Arakawa, James Dee, Kelli Ann Domae, David Dowsett, Shawn Drost, Diana Hahn, Benjamin Hughes, Jessica Hui, Matthew Ishida, Christian Junge, Jason Kerwin, Jonathan Leland, Jennifer Maehara, Catherine Matthews, Remy Minami, Brent Nakamura, Matthew Oda, Lauren Paer, Heyjin Park, Angela Rastegar, Christopher Steverson, Kara Tabor-Furmark, Wayne Tanaka, Chelsea Tanimura, Nyssa Thompson, Michael White, Susan Williams.
Roosevelt High School — Rachel Choy.
Seabury Hall — Blanche Case.
University Laboratory School — Valerie Sakimura.
Waiakea High School — Mark Hammes, Kori Haymore, Jennifer Mishina.
