Scholarship program recognizes two Valley Stream students

Two students in the Valley Stream Central High School District were named Outstanding Participants by a national scholarship program for black high school students.

Monik Walters, of Central High School, and North High School’s Osariemen Ogbemudia earned the designation in the 2015 National Achievement Scholarship Program, which is funded and run by the Illinois-based not-for-profit National Merit Scholarship Corporation. The program, started in 1964 “specifically to honor academically promising black American high school students,” considered approximately 160,000 students who entered when they took the 2013 preliminary SAT/ National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Walters and Ogbemudia were among the top 3 percent, qualifying them for a roster of 3,100 students whose names will be referred to 1,500 colleges and universities throughout the nation “for their potential for academic success,” according to the organization’s website.