Scholars for the U.S.

Presidential Scholars Program

May 2023
* Scholar for U.S. Presidential Scholar in Arts.
** Scholar for U.S Presidential Scholar in Career and Technical Education.

Alabama
AL - Sophia Li, Mountain Brook - Mountain Brook High School
AL - Stanley Jerome Stoutamire, Jr., Calera - John Carroll High School

Alaska
AK - Jackson Powell Church, Anchorage - Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School
AK - Lillian Yang, Anchorage - West Anchorage High School

Americans Abroad
AA - Jin Z. Chung, Tumon - St. John's School
AA - Ashley Zhou, Beijing - St. Paul's School

Arizona
**AZ - Tej Sandeep Desai, Phoenix - Paradise Valley High School
*AZ - Zakiriya Hilal Alem Gladney, Tucson - University High School
AZ - Rachana R. Gurudu, Phoenix - BASIS Scottsdale
AZ - Tyler Ming-Fei Tam, Paradise Valley - Phoenix Country Day School

Arkansas
AR - Sydney Elizabeth Massey, Little Rock - eStem High Public Charter School
AR - Mariam Tariq Parray, Little Rock - Pulaski Academy
AR - Neil Sash, Conway - Episcopal Collegiate School

California
CA - Annmaria K. Antony, San Jose - Harker School
*CA - Zoe Wijesekara Dorado, Castro Valley - Castro Valley High School
*CA - Raisa B. Effress, Los Angeles - Harvard-Westlake School
CA - Elane Kim, Walnut Creek - Stanford University Online High School
*CA - Alejandro T. Lombard, Van Nuys - Harvard-Westlake School
*CA - Miranda A. Lu, San Jose - Leland High School
*CA - Lauren Mei, Irvine - Orange County High School of the Arts
**CA - Sezen S. Musa, Sunnyvale - Adrian C. Wilcox High School
*CA - Sophia Ann Rabin, Newport Beach - Corona Del Mar High School
*CA - Fallon Carys Sungah Ryu-Dern, Los Angeles - Harvard-Westlake School
CA - Aaron Hieu Tran, Morgan Hill - Ann Sobrato High School
*CA - Gavin Ray Trotmore, Berkeley - Berkeley High School
Colorado
CO - Dana Ko, Colorado Springs - Pine Creek High School
**CO - Katherine Jordan Little, Denver - Thomas Jefferson High School
CO - Karthik Reddy, Westminster - Fairview High School

Connecticut
CT - Ambika Grover, Riverside - Greenwich High School
CT - Lukas Koutsoukos, Wilton - Wilton High School

Delaware
DE - Suhani Bhatt, Newark - Newark Charter School
**DE - Samra Iman Iqbal, Dover - Caesar Rodney High School
**DE - Puiyee Kong, Dover - Caesar Rodney High School
DE - Tatyana Rashid, Newark - MOT Charter School, High School Campus
DE - Carter B. Ross, Wilmington - Wilmington Friends School

District of Columbia
DC - Sophia Hall, Washington - Holton-Arms School
DC - Saul Villatoro, Washington - Francis L. Cardozo High School

Florida
FL - Ishika Nag, Oviedo - Oviedo High School
FL - Kiran C. Spencer, Delray Beach - American Heritage School Boca/Delray
FL - Luke Linxiao Yang, Palmetto Bay - Miami Palmetto Senior High School

Georgia
**GA - Aira Dani, Suwanee - Northview High School
GA - Michelle Li, Watkinsville - North Oconee High School
**GA - Sahil Sood, Duluth - Lambert High School
GA - Jack Xu, Marietta - George Walton High School

Hawaii
HI - Anabel Kinsey, Honolulu - Iolani School
**HI - Vaeanui Paiarii Peck, Kaaawa - Kahuku High School
HI - Holden Michael Schermer, Honolulu - Iolani School

Idaho
ID - Shiva Aaron Rajbhandari, Boise - Boise High School
ID - Claire S. Yoo, Idaho Falls - Idaho Falls High School

Illinois
IL - Emmet Jeremiah Ebels Duggan, Evanston - Evanston Township High School
**IL - Maxwell L. Neri, Naperville - Waubonsie Valley High School
IL - Yina Wang, Naperville - Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Indiana
IN - Archit Kalra, Carmel - Carmel High School
IN - Amogha Medha Paleru, Carmel - Carmel High School
*IN - Bayan Yunis, Fort Wayne - Carroll High School

Iowa
**IA - Eshaan S. Chandani, Johnston - Johnston High School
IA - Claire Gu, West Des Moines - Valley High School
IA - Tejas Kishan Gururaja, Cedar Rapids - Linn-Mar High School
IA - Alaina Marie Whittington, Diagonal - Diagonal Jr-Sr High School

Kansas
KS - Luke Wen-Tsu Chen, Overland Park - Blue Valley North High School
KS - Elizabeth Rushing Place, Leawood - Blue Valley North High School

Kentucky
KY - Arnav Dharmagadda, Russell - Russell High School
KY - Beatriz Oliveira Antunes, Bowling Green - South Warren High School
**KY - Cecelia Ann Rogers, Bardstown - Nelson County High School

Louisiana
LA - Ananya Bhatia, Shreveport - Caddo Parish Magnet High School
LA - Daniel Z. Liu, Baton Rouge - Baton Rouge Magnet High School
*LA - Khalil J. McKnight, Ponchatoula - Hammond High School

Maine
ME - Patrick Michael Wahlig, Falmouth - Falmouth High School
ME - Coco Leqi Xu, Falmouth - Falmouth High School

Maryland
MD - Maya Naomi Lall, Bethesda - Holton-Arms School
*MD - Cassidy May Reigel, Manchester - Baltimore School for the Arts
MD - Andrew Z. Yuan, Boyds - Poolesville Senior High School

Massachusetts
MA - Sol Kim, Westford - Phillips Academy
**MA - Henry C. Knox, East Falmouth - Upper Cape Cod Regional Vocational High School
*MA - Katherine E. Liu, Wellesley - Wellesley High School
**MA - Alijandro Ian Mendoza, Worcester - Worcester Vocational High School
MA - Ranjana Ramesh, N. Chelmsford - Central Catholic High School

Michigan
MI - Simar Bhatia, Portage - Portage Central High School
MI - Adnan Mahir Khan, Bloomfield Hills - International Academy
Minnesota
MN - Stavya Arora, Maple Grove - Maple Grove Senior High School
MN - Matthew Chen, Maple Grove - Wayzata High School

Mississippi
MS - Madison G. Echols, Hattiesburg - Mississippi School for Mathematics & Science
MS - Leo Mei, Madison - Madison Central High School

Missouri
MO - Diep H. Phan, Farmington - Farmington High School
**MO - Hannah N. Rice, Brunswick - Brunswick R-Ii High School
MO - Max Yang, Saint Louis - Ladue Horton Watkins High School

Montana
MT - Jessie Bough, Big Sky - Lone Peak High School
MT - Marten Cooper Hartshorn, Bozeman - Bozeman High School

Nebraska
NE - Abhirup Chandra Are, Omaha - Millard North High School
NE - Sarah Jane Wood, Omaha - Millard North High School

Nevada
NV - Amy Choi, Las Vegas - The Meadows School
NV - Troy Warren Harris, Henderson - Clark High School
**NV - Amy Park, Las Vegas - West Career and Technical Academy

New Hampshire
NH - Aaron Joy, Dover - Phillips Exeter Academy
NH - Sora S. Shirai, Hanover - Hanover High School

New Jersey
NJ - Sebastián N. Anderson, Ho-Ho-Kus - Northern Highlands Regional High School
NJ - Camryn Nicole Bartone, Howell - Freehold Township High School
NJ - Katherine Chen, Mountain Lakes - Mountain Lakes High School
NJ - Ian Liu, Cedar Knolls - Packer Collegiate Institute
NJ - Andrew C. Noviello, Bridgewater - Lawrenceville School
*NJ - Christopher Y. Shin, Cherry Hill - Cherry Hill High School East

New Mexico
NM - Emma Elizabeth Clayton, Rio Rancho - The ASK Academy
NM - Brian L. Han, Los Alamos - Los Alamos High School
New York
NY - Samara Baksh, Flushing - The Spence School
NY - Sabrina Guo, Oyster Bay - Syosset High School
NY - Samantha Maya Milewicz, Armonk - Byram Hills High School
*NY - George Porteous, New York - The Dalton School
NY - Kevin Zhu, Old Westbury - Jericho Senior High School

North Carolina
NC - Clara Cecilia Brodey, Chapel Hill - East Chapel Hill High School
NC - Nipun Gorantla, Matthews - Marvin Ridge High School
*NC - Georgia Elizabeth Greene, Kings Mountain - Cleveland Innovation Academy
**NC - Josiah Hailey Young, Harrisburg - Hickory Ridge High School

North Dakota
ND - Srinath B. Kandooru, Bismarck - Century High School
**ND - Kaylee Mae Kirkeby, Grand Forks - Grand Forks Central High School
ND - Annelise Klein, Bismarck - Century High School

Ohio
**OH - Jay G. Patel, West Chester Township - Butler Tech Bioscience Center
OH - Pranav Sompalle, Highland Heights - Mayfield High School
OH - Sanjana M. Velu, Mason - William Mason High School

Oklahoma
OK - Jeffrey Connor Evans, Oklahoma City - Casady School
OK - Lindsay Flores, Oklahoma City - Western Heights High School
OK - Joyce Yang, Bartlesville - Bartlesville High School

Oregon
OR - Caroline Xingyan Gao, Albany - West Albany High School
OR - Rishab K. Jain, Portland - Westview High School

Pennsylvania
PA - Hannah Gao, Wynnewood - Harriton High School
*PA - Vibha Janakiraman, West Chester - PA Leadership Charter School
PA - William L. Pan, Chester Springs - Downingtown High School-East Campus

Puerto Rico
PR - Alia Sofia Marrero-Alttar, Dorado - St. John's School
PR - Jose Antonio Puig Camacho, Dorado - Tasis School in Dorado

Rhode Island
RI - Julia Martins, Cranston - The Greene School
RI - Cayetano Sanchez IV, East Greenwich - East Greenwich High School
South Carolina
SC - Cam Srivastava, Spartanburg - Spartanburg Day School
SC - Cathy Tang, Columbia - Spring Valley High School

South Dakota
SD - Evelyn Violet Haar, Rapid City - Stevens Senior High School
SD - Andrew J. Nguyen, Sioux Falls - Sioux Falls Jefferson High School

Tennessee
TN - Mara Wren Klein, Sevierville - Gatlinburg-Pittman High School
TN - Nate Martinez, Thompsons Station - Independence High School

Texas
TX - Zhuo Qi Chen, Spring - The Woodlands College Park High School
TX - Hannah Guan, San Antonio - BASIS San Antonio Shavano Campus
TX - Siddhu Pachipala, The Woodlands - The Woodlands College Park High School
*TX - Zariyah M. Perry, Dallas - Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts
*TX - Cole Willis, Dallas - Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts

Utah
UT - Michael Ogden Chen, Salt Lake City - Hillcrest High School
UT - Priyanka Mathews, Salt Lake City - Hillcrest High School
**UT - Aaron Wang, Salt Lake City - Skyline High School

Vermont
VT - Adowyn Mulligan Byrne, Essex - Essex High School
VT - Samuel John Yager, Williston - Champlain Valley Union High School

Virginia
VA - Emma E. Cox, McLean - Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology
*VA - Mira Iris Kim, Fairfax - Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology
VA - Teja Koduru, Fairfax - Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology
VA - Emily Ocasio, falls church - New School Northern Virginia
VA - Mayra Rios, Vienna - James Madison High School

Washington
WA - Lora Kwon, Redmond - Redmond High School
WA - Arihant Singh, Sammamish - Nikola Tesla Stem High School

West Virginia
WV - Dalton S. Cook, Lynco - Westside High School
**WV - Isabella Mackenzie Herrod, Shinnston - Liberty High School
WV - Rania Zuri, Morgantown - Morgantown High School
Wisconsin
WI - Ananya Bhatt, Brookfield - Brookfield Central High School
WI - Saskatoon Robert Fuzz Damm, Medford - Medford Area Senior High School
WI - Ethan Mark Zentner, Glendale - Nicolet High School

Wyoming
WY - Cameron Nicholas Reckard, Sheridan - Sheridan High School
WY - Audrey Su-Wai Yeung, Laramie - Laramie High School