The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced Achievement Scholarships to over 800 high school seniors through the National Achievement Scholarship program.

These awards, totaling over $2 million are being financed by grants from approximately 30 corporate organizations and professional associations, and by National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

We are proud to announce that Messhia Young, a senior at Mansfield High School was selected as a recipient of the 2011 National Achievement Scholarship for $2,500.

More than 160,000 students entered the 2011 National Achievement Scholarship Program by requesting consideration when they took the 2009 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). Congratulations to Messhia Young.

The National Achievement Scholarship Program is a privately financed academic competition established in 1964 specifically to honor scholastically talented Black American youth, and to provide scholarships to a substantial number of the most outstanding participants in each annual competition.