Fort Bend Independent School District NEWS RELEASE FROM COMMUNITY RELATIONS Nancy Porter, Director of Communications nancy.porter@fortbendisd.com    281.634.1100

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Seven FBISD students named for the 2010 National Achievement Scholarship Program

FORT BEND ISD - Fort Bend Independent School District is proud to announce the names of seven students selected as semifinalists in the 2010 National Achievement Scholarship Program.  The students are: Erica Collins – Austin High School, Joseph Obeahon and Austin Taylor – Clements High School, Christopher Goodeaux and Chelsea Norcom - Elkins High School, Gregory Opara - Hightower High School and Isabelle Atkinson – Travis High School.

They represent more than 160,000 African-American high school juniors from all parts of the U.S. who requested consideration in the 2010 National Achievement Program when they took the 2008 PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. They will compete for one of 700 National Achievement $2500 scholarships, as well as about 100 corporate-sponsored Achievement Scholarship awards. The winners will be announced in early April.

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