The Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics was notified recently that 17 of its seniors have been named as National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists.
These students have the opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,000 National Merit Scholarships awarded in the spring. OSSM is Oklahoma’s two-year residential high school for academically advanced juniors and seniors from across the state.
OSSM's National Merit Semifinalists
Pictured recently during a dinner with Dr. Thomas Landers, Dean of the OU College of engineering, (far left) and Dr. David Ray, Dean of the OU Honors College (far right), the students are Shawn Swatek, home school Claremore; Sifan Zhang, home school Stillwater; Nirupama Sarathy, home school Stillwater; Teo Ene, home school Stillwater; Irving Dai, home school Stillwater; Andrew Vincent, home school Eufaula; Mubeen Shakir, home school Okla. City/Casady; Jing Shang, home school Edmond/Santa Fe; Paige Abernathy, home school Okla. City/Casady; Di Wu, home school Idabel; Deborah Olaleye, home school Tulsa/St. Stephen’s Episcopal; Onkur Sen, home school Broken Arrow/Booker T. Washington; George Malatinszky, home school Edmond/Classen School of Advanced Studies; Dipika Mohan, home school Broken Arrow/Tulsa Union; Peter Luo, home school Norman/North, Lisa Zhang, home school Tulsa/Jenks, and Ben Cassidy, home school Duncan.