Global Good News: Excellence in Action

Senior students of the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment in Fairfield, Iowa, USA, Angela Folz, Noah Caplan, and Owen Stowe have been named as semi-finalists in the 2007 National Merit Scholarship competition.

Atish Dey and Mehul Kar were also named as Commended Students in the competition. Announcements as to whether the semi-finalists
will be named National Merit Scholar finalists will be made later this Spring.

More than 1.4 million Juniors from across the United States entered the 2007 National Merit competition by taking the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) last year. Approximately 16,000 students qualified as semi-finalists and another 34,000 as designated Commended Students.

The semi-finalists will have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards, worth a total of $33 million, that will be offered next Spring.

It is a great achievement for a school to have just one National Merit semi-finalist or Commended Student in any year. To have three semi-finalists and two Commended Students in one year is a prestigious accomplishment.

Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment offers a unique, scientifically validated system of education to unfold the inner genius of every student, developing full creative intelligence for a happy, healthy, productive life. For further information, please visit: http://www.maharishischooliowa.org/

"The potential of every student is infinite. The time of student life should serve to unfold that infinite potential so that every individual becomes a vibrant centre of Total Knowledge."—Maharishi