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The National Merit Scholarship Corp., Evanston, Ill., has announced its Merit Scholarship winners for 2006. Winners were selected from students who advanced to the finalist level in the National Merit Scholarship Program and who meet the criteria of scholarship sponsors. Scholarships range from $500 to $10,000 per year. Recipients from the local area are:

Kristina C. Cho, Princeton, a student at South Brunswick High School, Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, a Schering-Plough Foundation Merit Scholarship, probable field of study biomedical engineering; and

Meghan E. Ragany, Princeton, South Brunswick High School, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Merit Scholarship, probable career field of international relations.

Janae Baker, a seventh-grade student at Crossroads North Middle School, South Brunswick, has been named winner for the category of grades seven and eight, in the state essay contest on public health sponsored by the New Jersey Health Officers Association.

Seema Anandalawar, South Brunswick High School, and Matthew King, Crossroads North Middle School, have been named Wallenberg Honors Program finalists by the Wallenberg Foundation of New Jersey. The program calls attention to and praises behavior exhibited by middle and high school students that emulates that of Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands in Hungary in the face of the Nazi Holocaust during World War II.

Shuang Yang, a senior at South Brunswick High School, has been selected as one of approximately 550 semifinalist in the 2006 Presidential Scholars competition, and will now advance to the final round of competition. The program recognizes and honors distinguished graduating high school seniors, and approximately 141 students are named Presidential Scholars annually.

Julia Kaplan, a junior at South Brunswick High School, has been elected governor of the mid-Atlantic state region of the Junior State of America Organization, the highest office in one of the organization's eight national regions. The region includes chapters and members in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia and North Carolina.

The mock trial team from Noor UlIman School, South Brunswick, has won the 2005-06 Vincent J. Apruzzese Mock Trial Championship sponsored by the Middlesex County Bar Association, New Brunswick. The competition gives high school students the opportunity to become attorneys, witnesses, and jurors for a day during the countywide event co-sponsored by the New Jersey State Bar Foundation.