The following local high school students were recently chosen as semifinalists for National Merit Scholarships.

Bedford High School – Soren Abel, Kayla Calderone, Aditi Jamkhande, Sunay Komarla and Arjun Puninchittaya

Hollis Brookline High School in Hollis – Aedan Barrus, Anne Longtin and Arvind Venkatesh

Academy for Science and Design in Nashua – Timothy Douglas, Jinen Gandhi, Haider Iqbal, Morgan Morales, Elizabeth Piper, Shreya Rajesh and Aadhavan Veerendra

Nashua High School South – Ameya Kharade, Hannah Thomas, Pooja Udayakumar and Chloe Zhang

Windham High School – Eric Buehler