Two Area Students Receiving National Merit Scholarships

Two local students have been selected as winners of National Merit $2,500 scholarships in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. The local scholarship winners are Luke Kotz, a student at Hempstead High School in Dubuque, and Nicole Johnson, a student at Galena High School. They are among 2,500 designees chosen from about 16,000 finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Corp. program. Winners of the $2,500 scholarships are “judged to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills and potential for success in rigorous college studies” among finalists in each state.