Subject
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Certificates of Recognition for Student Achievers - Richard Montgomery High School
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Department
City Clerk/Director of Council Operations Office
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the Mayor and Council recognize and celebrate the 2025 Student Achievers from Richard Montgomery High School.
Discussion
The following Student Achievers are from Richard Montgomery High School:
National Merit Scholars:
• Sujit Hegde, Molecular Biology
• Yash G. Maniar, Finance
• Zidane Sheng, Public Health
• Caroline Zhou, Finance
Montgomery County Alliance of Black School Educators (MCABSE) Distinguished African American Scholar Awards
• Audrey Oppong, Richard Montgomery High School
2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS), one of the nation's most rigorous science and engineering competitions. The scholars were chosen from thousands of applicants across the country. Among those chosen:
• Naima Aubry-Romero, a senior at Richard Montgomery High School, whose research models, analyzes, and predicts COVID-19 dynamics with interacting subpopulations using physics-informed neural networks.
• Iden Han, a senior at Richard Montgomery High School, explores the roles of piezo and YAP in nephrocyte pressure response using the Atlas Pressure Device.
C-SPAN’s 2025 StudentCam Competition Award Winners
• Richard Montgomery - Isabel Woldeab and Chloe Yang for the documentary, “Farms of the Future,” about farm subsidies and their environmental impact.
• Lucas Hahn, a student at Richard Montgomery High School, and Amy Yuan, a student at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, for the documentary, “’Broken by Design: The Flaws of Americas Healthcare System <http://www.c-span.org/video/?542501-169>.”
Richard Montgomery High School -- State Championship at the Maryland State Wrestling Championships (Isisah Womack)
Richard Montgomery High School - Maryland State Volleyball Player of the Year (Ema Djordjevic)
Please see attached certificates to be presented.
Mayor and Council History
Mayor and Council routinely recognize and celebrate student achievers from Rockville Schools.