Pumpkins in the Park
Pumpkins in the Park, a harvest fair to raise funds and enlist supporters for Guadalupe River Park Conservancy, is set for Oct. 9, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Discovery Meadow, 180 Woz Way.
Attendees can get free pumpkins while supplies last, take part in family-friendly activities and ride a giant slide. Local food trucks will also be on hand. For more information, visit https://grpg.org/calendar/events.
Students merit recognition
Dozens of seniors at San Jose high schools are among approximately 16,000 semifinalists in the 67th annual National Merit Scholarship program. These students are now in the running for some 7,500 scholarships worth $2,500 each that will be offered next spring.
High school juniors entered the program by taking the 2020 preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of entrants. The nationwide pool of semifinalists, representing less than 1% of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state.
ROSE GARDEN>>Semifinalists from Bellarmine College Preparatory are Jisang Ahn,
Devansh Bansal, Saket Budhia, Nathan Kang, Minseo Kim, Christopher Lin, Michael Lutz, Samuel Perrott, Alexander Pham, Dhruv Rao, Keshav Singh, Nimai Talur and John Xu.
CAMBRIAN>>Semifinalists from Branham High School are Adi Arora, Oleksandr Gorpynich, Tyler T. Groesbeck, Ashish J. Jayamohan and Julie Kim.
Semifinalists from Leigh High School are Yomn M.Hammad, Yassna H.Khosravi, Joshua Li and William J. Seng.
ALMADEN>> Semifinalists from Leland High School are Ashley Lee, Andrew H. Liu, Hongbo Wei, Kevin Zhang and Kaiyang Zheng.
WILLOW GLEN>> Semifinalists from Presentation High School are Poornima Dorairaj, Shriya V. Lolabattu, Sindhu Raghava, Shrobana Sengupta and Apoorva V. Thanvantri.
Lucas A. Tuan from Willow Glen High School is also a semifinalist.