Scholars for the U.S.

Presidential Scholars Program

May 2021
* Scholar for U.S. Presidential Scholar in Arts.
** Scholar for U.S Presidential Scholar in Career and Technical Education.

Alabama
AL - Gregory T. Li, Spanish Fort - Alabama School of Mathematics and Science
AL - Soojin Park, Auburn - Auburn High School

Alaska
AK - Alex Prayner, Wasilla - Mat-Su Career and Technical High School
AK - Parker Emma Rabinowitz, Girdwood - Hawaii Preparatory Academy

Americans Abroad
AA – Haddy Elie Alchaer, Beirut – International College
AA - Victoria Nicole Maniego Santos, Saipan - Mount Carmel High School

Arizona
AZ - Viraj Mehta, Scottsdale - BASIS Scottsdale Charter
**AZ - Suhani Patel, Peoria - Mountain Ridge High School
AZ - Danielle Sherman, Scottsdale - Desert Mountain High School

Arkansas
AR - Alison Sue-Jeanne Jang, Bentonville - Bentonville High School
AR - Felix Zhan, Fayetteville - Clark High School

California
*CA - Grace Huh, San Jose - Lynbrook High School
CA - Donovan Julian Jasper, Granite Bay - Jesuit High School
CA - Eshani Jha, San Jose - Lynbrook High School
*CA - Allison Sky Park, Sherman Oaks - Harvard-Westlake School
*CA - Arya Pratap, Fremont - Saint Francis High School
*CA - Charlotte Dawn Sedaka, Sherman Oaks - Viewpoint School
CA - Diya Sarah Theodore, Riverside - Redlands High School
*CA - Parker Van Ostrand, Sacramento - C. K. McClatchy High School
CA - Michael Zhao, San Jose - Lynbrook High School
Colorado
*CO - Whitney Blue, Boulder - Fairview High School
CO - Nicole Yee Chen, Greenwood Village - Cherry Creek High School
CO - Kayson M Marler, Loveland - Loveland High School

Connecticut
CT - Rachel S. Brooks, Trumbull - Christian Heritage School
CT - Colin B. Speaker, Greenwich - Greenwich High School

Delaware
DE - Patrick Stratton Campbell, Wilmington - Brandywine High School
**DE - Rohan P Kanchana, Hockessin - Newark Charter Junior/Senior High School
DE - Risha Kumar, Wilmington - Cab Calloway School of the Arts High School
DE - Reece Alexander Ratliff, Wilmington - Tower Hill School
**DE - Divita Taduvayi, Bear - MOT Charter High School

District of Columbia
DC - Stephen Thomas Mirabello, Washington - School Without Walls
DC - Tess I Weinreich, Washington - The Potomac School

Florida
FL - Ellen Choi, Melbourne - Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy
FL - Rohan R Davidi, Tallahassee - James S. Rickards High School
*FL - Jalynn Jaielle McDuffey, Miami - Coral Reef Senior High School
*FL - Is Perlman, Miami Beach - Design & Architecture Senior High School
*FL - Stephen Adam Savage, Port St. Lucie - Savage Home School
**FL - Elyse V. Soracco, St. Johns - Creekside High School
*FL - Elyse Yvonne Thomas, Miami - School for Advanced Studies-Wolfson
**FL - Barrett Ryan Young, Branford - Branford High School

Georgia
GA - Aaron Daniel Altamirano Dino, Saint Marys - Camden County High School
GA - Divya Nori, Roswell - Milton High School

Hawaii
HI - Joshua H. Park, Honolulu - Iolani School
HI - Cosette Ting-Hua Wu, Honolulu - Punahou School

Idaho
ID - Katherine E. Hebdon, Nampa - Skyview High School
ID - Jaston B. McClure, Moscow - Moscow High School
Illinois
IL - Sarah Aline McEvers, White Hall - North Greene High School
IL - Louis Peacemaker Mukama, Chicago - Phillips Exeter Academy
IL - Pavan Venkatesh Pandurangi, Palatine - William Fremd High School

Indiana
IN - Kobe Chen, Fort Wayne - Homestead High School
IN - Zoe Edwards, Carmel - Carmel High School

Iowa
IA - Dorothy M Junginger, West Des Moines - Valley High School
**IA - Molly Ann Niewoehner, Hawkeye - Sumner-Fredericksburg High School
IA - Lucas Ian Pierce, Nashua - Nashua Plainfield High School

Kansas
KS - Charles B. Horner, Overland Park - Shawnee Mission South High School
KS - Khushi Kohli, Overland Park - Olathe North High School
KS - Aishani Saxena, Stilwell - Blue Valley West High School

Kentucky
KY - Sarah Belcher, Dorton - Pikeville High School
KY - Justin Michael Burch, Prospect - St. Xavier High School

Louisiana
LA - Eric Jaron Jones, St. Rose - Destrehan High School
LA - Ju-Woo Nho, Baton Rouge - Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Maine
ME - Devon Michael Hunter, Orrington - John Bapst Memorial High School
ME - Aislynn K Worden, Springvale - Sanford High School

Maryland
MD - Marvin Li, Salisbury - James M Bennett High School
MD - Saanika Mahashetty, Boyds - Richard Montgomery High School
**MD - Sahil Patel, Waldorf - North Point High School
MD - Avinash J. Thakkar, Rosedale - Mcdonogh School
**MD - Kathy Yao, Lutherville - Dulaney High School

Massachusetts
**MA - Julie A Canuto-Depina, Weymouth - Southeastern Regional Vocational-Tech High School
*MA - Maria Isabella Carpenter, Wenham - Governor Dummer Academy
MA - Caroline Curran, Pocasset - Sturgis Charter School
*MA - Andrew Harris, Concord - Middlesex School
*MA - Arden E. Lloyd, Amherst - Amherst Regional High School
MA - Ritvik Chandra Pulya, Acton - Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
MA - Kevin Wen, Somerville - Somerville High School

Michigan
*MI - Calvin R. Hinds, Wayland - Interlochen Arts Academy
MI - Saaim Ali Khan, Troy - Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School
**MI - Andrea Maizy, Warren - Center Line High School
MI - Shriya Reddy, Northville - Northville High School
MI - Shriya S Yarlagadda, Grand Blanc - Grand Blanc Community School

Minnesota
*MN - Madelyn Dietz, Saint Paul - Interlochen Arts Academy
MN - Lucas Scott Eggers, Rochester - Choate Rosemary Hall
MN - Esperanza Lee, Saint Paul - Woodbury High School

Mississippi
MS - Emmanuelle Rachel Teng, Oxford - Oxford High School
MS - Matthew Landon Yin, Madison - Madison Central High School

Missouri
**MO - Justin David Eddy, Rocheport - David H. Hickman High School
MO - Janvi Huria, Chesterfield - Marquette High School
MO - Sri Jaladi, Creve Coeur - Parkway West High School
MO - Rohith K Ryali, Ballwin - Lafayette High School
**MO - Sydney Marie Stundebeck, Salisbury - Salisbury R-Iv High School

Montana
MT - Claire Anne Downing, Helena - Helena High School
MT - John Cody Gilbert, Moore - Hobson Public School

Nebraska
*NE - Ramya Iyer, Omaha - Westside High School
NE - Lucas G Niewohner, Herman - Tekamah-Herman High School
NE - Trishna Aishani Srikumar, Elkhorn - Brownell-Talbot School

Nevada
NV - Derek Lin Chien, Reno - Davidson Academy of Nevada
NV - Priyanka Senthil, Reno - Davidson Academy of Nevada
New Hampshire
NH - Fahim Ahmed, Goffstown - Goffstown Area High School
NH - Rebecca Zhu, Nashua - Nashua Senior High School South

New Jersey
NJ - Youssef Abdelhalim, Hillsborough - Hillsborough High School
NJ - Lara Ozkan, River Edge - Bergen County Academies
NJ - Akhil C Paulraj, Plainsboro - West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North
*NJ - Katherine Vandermel, Closter - Bergen County Academies

New Mexico
NM - Melinda Leyuan Modisette, Albuquerque - Albuquerque Academy
NM - Faris Irwin Wald, Santa Fe - Santa Fe High Sch South Campus

New York
NY - Julia K. Brand, Purchase - Riverdale Country School
NY - Owen M. Dugan, Sleepy Hollow - Dugan Home-School
NY - Shubh Khanna, New York - Hunter College High School
NY - Kristen Meola, New York - United Nations Internatl Sch

North Carolina
NC - Ijay Narang, Charlotte - Ardrey Kell High School
NC - Nrithya P Renganathan, Cary - The North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics
NC - Pratyush Seshadri, Cary - Raleigh Charter High School

North Dakota
ND - Dennis Du, Grand Forks - Grand Forks Central High School
ND - Ellen Anna Gregoire, Larimore - Larimore Public High School

Ohio
OH - Maple Buescher, Cleveland Heights - Cleveland Heights High School
OH - Aidan J Finn, Cincinnati - Saint Xavier High School
*OH - Kasey M. Shao, Cincinnati - Walnut Hills High School

Oklahoma
OK - Sean Michael Kuehn, Sand Springs - Charles Page High School
OK - Emily Jordan Benelli Ward, Locust Grove - Locust Grove High School

Oregon
OR - Kevin Dai, Corvallis - Crescent Valley High School
OR - Kaitlyn J. Kim, Ashland - Ashland High School
Pennsylvania
PA - Catherine A. Cavanaugh, Lansdale - North Penn High School
PA - Richard Su Fang, Newtown - Council Rock High School
**PA - Raymond A. Slifer, Quakertown - Quakertown Senior High School

Puerto Rico
PR - Alejandra Sofía Lozada Santana, San Juan - Baldwin School of Puerto Rico
PR - Ricardo Shawki Marrero-Alattar, Dorado - St. John's School
**PR - Nicolas Taj Proskauer Valerio, Aguadilla - Ramey School

Rhode Island
RI - Brooke L Newbury, West Warwick - St Mary Academy - Bay View
RI - Eric Tang, Providence - Wheeler School
RI - Erik Y. Wang, Providence - Phillips Academy

South Carolina
SC - Lily Lassiter, Charleston - Academic Magnet High School
SC - Jacob T Price, Spartanburg - Spartanburg High School

South Dakota
SD - Riley James Nold, Sioux Falls - Washington High School
SD - Brooklyn Kate Pater, Sioux Falls - Sioux Falls Christian High School
SD - Samantha Timanus, Gregory - Gregory High School

Tennessee
TN - Nelson D. Rose, Brentwood - Brentwood High School
TN - Seo Yoon Yang, Signal Mountain - Signal Mountain Middle High School
*TN - Alora E Young, Brentwood - Hillsboro High School

Texas
*TX - Sarah Grace Kimberly, Friendswood - The High School for Performing & Visual Arts
**TX - Sneha Sunil Shenoy, Spring - Klein High School
**TX - Christian Tamez, Del Rio - Del Rio High School
TX - Labiba Uddin, Frisco - Dr Justin Wakeland High School
TX - Derek Pan Wong, San Antonio - Keystone School

Utah
UT - Dallin Tyler Christensen, Pleasant View - Leadership Academy of Utah
**UT - Nathan Daniel Ford, Lehi - Cedar Valley High School
UT - Mahider Tadesse, Salt Lake City - East High School
Vermont
VT - Theresa J. Christiansen, Richmond - Mount Mansfield Union High School
VT - John Cotter, Mendon - Rutland High School

Virginia
VA - Shreya Somayajula, Ashburn - Stone Bridge High School
VA - Jason Wang, Vienna - Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology

Washington
WA - William R. Murray, Bellevue - Lakeside School
WA - Tessa Claire Pierce, Newport - Newport High School
**WA - Molly Jane Williams, Clarkston - Charles F Adams High School

West Virginia
WV - Kendra S Goeddert, Maxwelton - Greenbrier East High School
WV - Nicholas G Murphy, Washington - Parkersburg South High School
**WV - Zara Zervos, Moundsville - John Marshall High School

Wisconsin
WI - Neil Sai Dogra, Mequon - University School of Milwaukee
WI - Phoebe J. Jeske, Madison - Oregon High School
**WI - Amara Lynn Livingston, Buffalo City - Cochrane Fountain City High School

Wyoming
WY - Jessica L. Petri, Green River - Green River High School
WY - Siler J Weaver, Evanston - Evanston High School