{"id":938,"date":"2012-10-12T11:13:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/?p=938"},"modified":"2012-10-12T11:15:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:15:07","slug":"national-merit-scholar-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/national-merit-scholar-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"National Merit Scholar Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMG_7667.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-939 alignleft\" title=\"2012-Williston-Northampton-Assembly-National-Merit-Scholar\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMG_7667-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMG_7667-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMG_7667.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Each year about 1.5 million students in more than 22,000 high schools enter the National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the PSAT. About 3 percent of those taking the test qualify to receive program recognition. As a result of their scores, this year Williston has nine students who qualified for this recognition. During All-School Assembly on Friday morning, Associate Head of School Jeff Ketchum reminded juniors and sophomores, who will be taking <a title=\"Juniors: PSAT Pre-registration Tomorrow\" href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/2012\/10\/10\/juniors-psat-pre-registration-tomorrow\/\">the test this next Wednesday<\/a>, that the PSAT was more than just practice for the SAT, it was also a chance for national recognition and possible scholarship money. The following seniors received certificates at assembly:<\/p>\n<p>Mika Chmielewski <a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMG_7669.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-940\" title=\"2012-Williston-Northampton-Assembly-National-Merit-Scholar-2\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMG_7669-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMG_7669-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMG_7669.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDevon Greenwood<br \/>\nEmma Hing<br \/>\nKat Kaisla<br \/>\nJiwon Lee<br \/>\nMimi Phillips<br \/>\nMairead Poulin<br \/>\nKeely Quirk<br \/>\nEric Tallman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year about 1.5 million students in more than 22,000 high schools enter the National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the PSAT. About 3 percent of those taking the test qualify to receive program recognition. As a result of their scores, this year Williston has nine students who qualified for this recognition. During All-School Assembly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/national-merit-scholar-recognition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Merit Scholar Recognition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school-assembly","category-congratulations","category-notifications"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}