2016 Carson Scholars Payton Abernathy Samir Al-Ali Olivia Anderson Grade: 11 Grade: 11 Grade: 11 Choctaw High School Northside College Delmarva Christian High Choctaw, OK Preparatory High School School Chicago, IL Georgetown, DE Kayla Acker-Carter Grade: 11 Conner Allen Rachel Andreola Annapolis High School Grade: 11 Grade: 8 Annapolis, MD Saints Peter and Paul High St. Elizabeth Elementary School School Isabella Acosta Easton, MD Pittsburgh, PA Grade: 5 Tanglewood Elementary Theodore Almeter McKenna Andrew School Grade: 8 Grade: 8 Fort Myers, FL Saint Bernadette School Serra Catholic School Monroeville, PA Rancho Santa Margarita, CA Lizet Acuna Grade: 11 Kristen Almuete Teko Angelicchio Jr. Farragut Career Academy Grade: 11 Grade: 6 Chicago, IL Calvert High School Christ the Divine Teacher Prince Frederick, MD School Avi Adams Latrobe, PA Grade: 8 Noorhan Amani St. Agnes School Grade: 11 Madelaine Armagost West Mifflin, PA Mt. Everest Academy Grade: 11 San Diego, CA North County High School Montana Adams Glen Burnie, MD Grade: 11 Rachelle Ambroise Prestonsburg High School Grade: 11 Diana Arteaga Prestonsburg, KY Academy of Our Lady of Grade: 8 Mercy, Lauralton Hall Carl Von Linne Elementary Mitchell Adkins Milford, CT School Grade: 5 Chicago, IL Bushy Park Elementary Athreya Anand School Grade: 11 Ashley Asiedu Glenwood, MD West Ranch High School Grade: 8 Stevenson Ranch, CA Sykesville Middle School Seetal Ahluwalia Sykesville, MD Grade: 8 Kayla Andersen Harper's Choice Middle Grade: 8 Veronica Aye School Penn Yan Middle School Grade: 5 Columbia, MD Penn Yan, NY Valley View Elementary School Battle Creek, MI Makenna Bachman Amanda Beach Brayden Bess Grade: 5 Grade: 11 Grade: 4 Sparks Elementary School Melbourne Central Catholic Urbandale Elementary Sparks, MD High School School Melbourne, FL Battle Creek, MI Lauren Bahnsen Grade: 11 Caroline Beakes Kayla Betancourt South Carroll High School Grade: 5 Grade: 11 Sykesville, MD Westminster Elementary Joppatowne High School School Joppa, MD Avneet Bahra Westminster, MD Grade: 8 Allison Bilohlavek Martin Luther King, Jr. Erika Belitzky Grade: 11 Middle School Grade: 11 Serra Catholic High School Beltsville, MD Fairfield Warde High School McKeesport, PA Fairfield, CT Makaylah Ballard Talen Birchmier Grade: 7 Kacie Bell Grade: 11 Northside Catholic School Grade: 11 Southeast Polk High School Pittsburgh, PA Elko High School Pleasant Hill, IA Elko, NV Roopsha Bandopadhyay Craig Birckhead-Morton Grade: 11 Arly Bencosme Grade: 8 Milton High School Grade: 6 Snow Hill Middle School Alpharetta, GA Commodore John Rodgers Snow Hill, MD Elementary/Middle School Monserrat Barragan Farias Baltimore, MD Brody Bird Grade: 8 Grade: 8 David Brown Middle School Victoryous Bennett Jefferson Middle School Wildomar, CA Grade: 4 Olympia, WA Hearn Elementary School Gracie Batterson Frankfort, KY Lauryn Bishoff Grade: 4 Grade: 5 Valley View Elementary Matt Kyle Bermudez Broad Ford Elementary School Grade: 6 School Battle Creek, MI Cooley Ranch Elementary Oakland, MD School Katharine Bauer Colton, CA Taylor Bishop Grade: 11 Grade: 7 Wilmington Christian School Matthew Bernardo Nicoma Park Middle School Hockessin, DE Grade: 8 Choctaw, OK Winton Woods Middle Abigail Baum School Olivia Bobrownicki Grade: 5 Greenhills, OH Grade: 8 William Winchester Fairmont Private Schools Elementary School Historic Anaheim Campus Westminster, MD Anaheim, CA Emeline Boehringer Ryan Briscoe Kobi Brown Grade: 11 Grade: 10 Grade: 7 Baltimore School for the Arts Northwest High School Midtown Academy Baltimore, MD Germantown, MD Baltimore, MD Kayah Bonilla-Mas Mia Brito Rackeem Brown Grade: 5 Grade: 8 Grade: 8 Lehigh Elementary School Our Lady of Lourdes School Pittsburgh Sunnyside K-8 Lehigh Acres, FL New York, NY Pittsburgh, PA Kai Bosley Emma Britton Ta'Nia Brown Grade: 11 Grade: 10 Grade: 4 Providence-St. Mel School New Oxford High School Dudley Elementary School Chicago, IL New Oxford, PA Battle Creek, MI Phillip Bosrock III Josephine Brodie Victoria Bruton Grade: 5 Grade: 11 Grade: 10 Fremont Elementary School Decatur High School Carver Vocational-Technical Battle Creek, MI Decatur, GA High School Baltimore, MD Carter Bowman Abigail Brosh Grade: 11 Grade: 11 Kayla Bucio Central York High School North Harford High School Grade: 8 York, PA Pylesville, MD Rowe Elementary School Chicago, IL Ellery Bowman Alexa Brown Grade: 5 Grade: 8 Ashley Buckley North Frederick Elementary Wendover Middle School Grade: 5 School Greensburg, PA Edison Park Elementary Frederick, MD School Allison Brown Fort Myers, FL Ryan Braun Grade: 5 Grade: 10 Pelican Elementary School Angela Bueso Fort Recovery High School Cape Coral, FL Grade: 8 Fort recovery, OH New Life Christian School Elise Brown Frederick, MD David Bravo Grade: 5 Grade: 8 San Carlos Park Elementary David Bujdos Veterans Memorial Middle School Grade: 8 School Fort Myers, FL St. Therese School Blue Island, IL Munhall, PA Imani Brown Jared Brice Grade: 8 Brittani Bullock Grade: 11 Magothy River Middle School Grade: 9 Chestertown Christian Arnold, MD Charles A. Tindley Academy Accelerated School Chestertown, MD Indianapolis, IN Robinson III "Trey" Burrell Kaitlin Callahan Brendan Cave Grade: 11 Grade: 11 Grade: 8 The Boys' Latin School of Polytech High School Mount Airy Middle School Maryland Woodside, DE Mt. Airy, MD Baltimore, MD Joshua Cameron Yareli Cervantes Perez Autumn Burton Grade: 11 Grade: 11 Grade: 11 T. Wingate Andrews High Preuss School UCSD Carver Center for Arts and School La Jolla, CA Technology High Point, NC Towson, MD Hannah Cevasco Solomon Campbell Grade: 9 Katelyn Burtyk Grade: 8 Sacred Heart Preparatory Grade: 11 Chinook Middle School Atherton, CA Canon-McMillan High School Lacey, WA Canonsburg, PA Jessica Chaidez Natalie Canham Grade: 7 Eleanor Byers Grade: 5 Charles Gates Dawes Grade: 11 Berlin Intermediate School Elementary School Patterson Mill Middle/High Berlin, MD Chicago, IL School Bel Air, MD Christopher Cao Anusha Chaudhry Grade: 11 Grade: 11 Elissa Cain Thomas Jefferson High The Academy at Central Grade: 6 School for Science and High Point, NC Springfield Middle School Technology Battle Creek, MI Alexandria, VA Srinivasa Cheekati Grade: 11 Rudy Calderon Morgan Carew Hunterdon Central Regional Grade: 11 Grade: 7 High School Back of the Yards College Magothy River Middle School Flemington, NJ Preparatory Arnold, MD Chicago, IL Nicholas Cherico Jon Carpadakis Grade: 10 Yenifer Calderon Grade: 11 Clarion Area/ Senior High Grade: 8 Hilltop High School School Pittsburgh South Hills 6-8 Chula Vista, CA Clarion, PA Pittsburgh, PA Carolina Carrillo Amber Chew Olivia Calkins Grade: 11 Grade: 8 Grade: 5 Tinley Park High School Chesapeake Bay Middle Rockburn Elementary School Tinley Park, IL School Elkridge, MD Pasadena, MD Gina Cavalieri Anna Callaghan Grade: 11 Nicole Ciminelli Grade: 5 Ida Baker High School Grade: 8 Bay View Elementary School Cape Coral, FL Southern Middle School North East, MD Lothian, MD Matthew Cinnamon Kiersten Cook Ava Cruz Grade: 10 Grade: 11 Grade: 11 Forest Park High School Southeast Guilford High Cab Calloway School of the Woodbridge, VA School Arts Greensboro, NC Wilmington, DE Sarah Clark Grade: 11 Riley Cook Roxana Cruz A.P. Brewer High School Grade: 5 Grade: 11 Somerville, AL Bayshore Elementary School Forest Hill Community High North Fort Myers, FL School Jane Clarke West Palm Beach, FL Grade: 8 Alexandra Cooney Edison Regional Gifted Grade: 5 Elizabeth Curry Center Heights Elementary School Grade: 5 Chicago, IL Fort Myers, FL Bakerfield Elementary School Aberdeen, MD Kayla Clarke Mykayla Copeland Grade: 5 Grade: 5 Ryan Darden Woodholme Elementary Westward Elementary School Grade: 10 School West Palm Beach, FL High Point Central High Baltimore, MD School Katherine Corbit High Point, NC Jacquelyn Colangelo Grade: 11 Grade: 10 Heritage Christian School Oluwakemi Dauda Chesapeake High School Canton, OH Grade: 11 Pasedena, MD Dr. Benjamin Carson High Emily Costantino School of Science and Marilin Colli Grade: 8 Medicine Grade: 11 St. Philip School Detroit, MI El Camino High School Pittsburgh, PA Oceanside, CA Romeo Davila Michael Courville Grade: 11 Joseph Connolly Grade: 11 Roberto Clemente Grade: 11 Venice High School Community Academy Central Catholic High School Venice, FL Chicago, IL Pittsburgh, PA James Craft Ameera Davis Abigail Conrad Grade: 11 Grade: 5 Grade: 4 Crescent High School Pittsburgh Beechwood PreK- Waterloo Elementary School Iva, SC 5 Columbia, MD Pittsburgh, PA Reece Crockett Justin Cook Grade: 5 Carmen Davis Grade: 11 River Hall Elementary School Grade: 8 Seton - LaSalle Catholic High Alva, FL Tyro Middle School School Lexington, NC Pittsburgh, PA David Davis Ethan DiNottia Elisabeth Dunbar Grade: 11 Grade: 5 Grade: 11 Sussex Academy of Arts & Colonial Elementary School Spanish Fort High School Sciences Fort Myers, FL Spanish Fort, AL Georgetown, DE Carly DiPietro Jazz Duncan Gwendolyn Davison Grade: 11 Grade: 11 Grade: 8 New Castle High School Rockdale Magnet School for Dorseyville Middle School New Castle, PA Science and Technology Pittsburgh, PA Conyers, GA Nicole Doble Sarah Davison Grade: 11 Max Dunn Grade: 8 Westminster Christian School Grade: 5 St. Gregory's School Palmetto Bay, FL Caloosa Elementary School Zelineople, PA Cape Coral, FL Christopher Dodd Kelvin De Leon Grade: 11 Lauren Durham Grade: 8 Cranston High School-West Grade: 10 St. John Fisher School Cranston, RI Versailles High School Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Versailles, OH Emily Dolce Milagros de Souza Grade: 11 Alexis Dzadovsky Grade: 11 Charles