Science Bowl: Blair's team won the 2025 National Science Bowl!
The team members were Yunyi Ling, Katherine Wang, Jason Youm, Evan Zhang, Kian Dhawan, and they are coached by Erik Lodal
This is the third time Blair has won the National Science Bowl (previously in 1999 and 2016)
Gold Medalist: Senior Kian Dhawan was a member of the 2025 USA Biolympiad Team, and he won a Gold Medal at the International Biology Olympiad in July! (MCPS News)
Scholarships and Awards for the Class of '25:
Yunyi Ling was a semifinalist for a U.S. Presidential Scholarship (pdf)
Many students won National Merit Scholarships:
National Merit Scholarships: Asher E. Anantha, Nikhita Bhatt, Evlyn Goldi, Matthew Nam, Chriyan Reyya, Jason Youm, and Stephen Zhang (MCPS)
Corporate-Sponsored Scholarships: Reetika Banerjee (Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Scholarship), Ian Gadbois Campbell (Senator Charles S. Robb Scholarship), Meru Gopalan (Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Scholarship), Kripa Krishna (Leidos, Inc. Scholarship), Charlotte J. Li (Leidos, Inc. Scholarship) (mymcmedia)
School-Sponsored Scholarship: Yun Yeung (Vanderbilt) and Michael Zenick (Alabama) (MCPS June/July)
36 Blair students were named National Merit Semifinalists in the Class of '26: Safwan Ahmed, Nathaniel Bingenheimer, Kian Dhawan, Lillian Fischer, Daniel Hoang, Ethan Hua, Jeffery Ji, Leo Jin, Jesse Jing, Sophia Jones, Mehr Kaur, Ryan L. Leventhal, Cooper Li, Jason Liang, Ethan Liu, James Lozada-McBride, Gerald Lu, Riley MacArthur, Arjun Ramachandran, Justin Rosentover, Adithi Sathyanarayanan, Eric Shi, Tony Song, Christopher Tang, Gugan Thuduppathy, Kiya Tiruneh, Arthur Wang, Doris Wang, Eliana Wang, Shaun Wang, Yongle Xin, Jason Yao, Sophia Yeung, Evan Zhang, William Zhang, and Ezra Zibel (MCPS)