Mars Area seniors Deepayan Patra and JonPaul Plesniak were named Semifinalists in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program. 

The students placed among the top 16,000 high school students who entered the 2018 competition by taking the 2016 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Semifinalists represent less than one percent of each state’s high school seniors.

For details, visit www.nationalmerit.org.