Ten Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) students have been awarded 2020 corporate-sponsored scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. The students are part of a group of more than 1,000 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: 

• Stephanie Liu, Langley High School (bioinformatics), National Merit Northrop Grumman Scholarship.
• Daniel Mousavi, Langley High School (biomedical engineering), National Merit General Dynamics Corporation Scholarship.
• Gloria Wang, Oakton High School (economics), National Merit James R. Schlesinger Memorial Scholarship.
• Trenton Elliott, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) (electrical engineering), National Merit CACI Scholarship.
• Brandon Fogg, TJHSST (electrical engineering), National Merit General Dynamics Corporation Scholarship.
• John Jones, TJHSST (law), National Merit General Dynamics Corporation Scholarship.
• Daniel Li, TJHSST (bioinformatics), National Merit Senator Charles S. Robb Scholarship.
• Catherine Liang, TJHSST (applied mathematics), National Merit GEICO Scholarship.
• Sanjana Meduri, TJHSST (computer science), National Merit Leidos, Inc. Scholarship.
• Ronith Ranjan, TJHSST (computer science), National Merit GEICO 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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