Eight Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) students have been awarded 2023 corporate-sponsored scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. The students are part of a group of more than 840 National Merit finalists chosen to receive scholarships financed by corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations.

Winners of the corporate-sponsored scholarships, with their probable career fields in parentheses, are: 

• Maya Pattison of Edison High school (mathematics), National Merit Truist Scholarship. 
• Andy Liang of Chantilly High School (chemistry), National Merit Dr. James R. Schlesinger Memorial Scholarship.
• Vishal Reddy Kotha of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) (computer science), National Merit Leidos, Inc. Scholarship.
• Clara Kim of TJHSST (bioengineering), National Merit Northrop Grumman Scholarship. 
• Lynn Rose Tao of TJHSST (biomedicine), National Merit Northrop Grumman Scholarship. 
• Vivian Feng of TJHSST (computer science), National Merit Senator Charles S. Robb Scholarship.
• Cindy Yang of TJHSST (computer science), National Merit CACI Scholarship.
• Megan Zhang of TJHSST (computer science), National Merit Leidos, Inc. Scholarship.

Corporate sponsors provide merit scholarship awards for National Merit finalists who are children of their employees, who are residents of communities the companies serve, or who have college majors or career interests the sponsors want to encourage.

Corporate-sponsored merit scholarship awards are renewable for up to four years of college undergraduate study and range from $1,000 to $10,000 per year. Others provide a single payment between $2,500 and $5,000. Recipients can use the awards at regionally accredited U.S. colleges or universities of their choice.

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