William Lago, who attends Noble High School in North Berwick is a winner of the National Merit Liberty Mutual Scholarship.
Lago is one of more than 1,000 high school seniors who have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards.
Lago, who is interested in computer science, is among the first batch of scholarship winners to be named.
More than 1.4 million juniors in approximately 22,000 high schools entered the 2015 scholarship competition when they took the 2013 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. In September 2014, 16,000 semifinalists were chose. By the end of the year 7,600 finalists will have been selected to win National Merit Scholarships totaling $34 million.
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