The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has selected Jesse Brooke Kimery of Bangs as a winner of a National Merit $2500 Scholarship. Each year, 2500 graduating high school seniors from across the country are chosen for this award.
Jesse has been home schooled throughout her school career. She has also taken dual-credit courses at Howard Payne University since her sophomore year of high school, and has earned 42 hours of college credit. In April, 2012, she was named the Outstanding Dual-Credit Mathematics Student and an Outstanding Student, Lower Division Spanish, at HPU’s academic awards convocation.
Jesse has played clarinet with the Central Texas Community Band for the past five years, and is an active member of the youth group at First Baptist Church, Brownwood. An avid writer of fiction, Jesse had a short story, “Cassie Lowell’s Future,” published in the April, 2012, edition of Teen Ink magazine.
Jesse spent the month of June, 2011, at Baylor University as one of ten participants in the High School Summer Science Research Program, researching dusty plasma in the astrophysics lab under the direction of Dr. Lorin Matthews. In March, 2012, along with Dr. Matthews and graduate student Jonathan Perry, she presented a poster of their research at the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.Jesse Kimery will attend Rice University in Houston, Texas. She plans to major in physics or mathematics.
Jesse is the daughter of Millard and Cindy Kimery.
National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners are the finalists in each state judged to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills, and potential for success in rigorous college studies. They were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors. These Scholars may use their awards at any regionally accredited U.S. college or university.
