HPA’s White named National Merit Scholar
HPA’s White named National Merit Scholar
Hawaii Preparatory Academy senior Will White was named a National Merit Scholar and is the winner of a $2,500 National Merit Scholarship.
The 2,500 National Merit Scholar designees were selected from more than 15,000 finalists in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program.
HPA seniors Tristan Kilkenny and Jordan Virtue also were named finalists in this year’s competition.
White, the son of John and Laurie White of Waimea, is an active member of the HPA community. In addition to serving as Student Council president and dorm prefect, White was a member of the boys basketball team and co-published an article about Hawaii Island coqui frogs as in intern for The Washington Post’s Morning Mix. White also is an accomplished musician and a self-taught, award-winning banjo player, who also plays piano, guitar and ukulele.
White will attend Stanford University this fall and plans to study product design in the College of Engineering.