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Five GSSM Students Named National Achievement Scholarship Recipients
March 2, 2008
Five seniors at the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM) recently were named National Achievement Finalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Those students include: Christian Buckson, Greenwood; Latoya Dixon, Columbia; Maliek McKnight, Columbia; Ashley McClary, Lane; and Chavis Stackhouse, Andrews.
The National Achievement Scholarship Program is an academic competition established in 1964 to provide recognition for outstanding Black American high school students. Black students may enter both the National Achievement Program and the National Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) and meeting other published requirements for participation. The two annual programs are conducted concurrently but operated and funded separately. A student's standing is determined independently in each program. Black American students can qualify for recognition and be honored as Scholars in both the National Merit Program and the National Achievement Program, but can receive only one monetary award from NMSC.
All Achievement Scholarship winners (Achievement Scholarship designees) are selected from the group of Finalists based on their abilities, skills and accomplishments - without consideration of financial circumstances or college choice. Beginning in late February, the National Achievement Program notifies about 800 Finalists that they have been selected to receive an Achievement Scholarship award.
For more information on the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics, please contact Jacqulyne Pouncey at the GSSM Foundation.
