{"id":14207,"date":"2011-09-27T02:32:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T07:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=14207"},"modified":"2011-09-27T02:32:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T07:32:56","slug":"crestviews-holden-earns-merit-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/09\/27\/crestviews-holden-earns-merit-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview&#8217;s Holden earns Merit honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CONVOY &#8212; Crestview High School Principal Michael L. Biro announced Monday that Matthew Holden has been named a Commended Student in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14208\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14208 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Holden-Merit-Commended-Student-9-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"278\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crestview High School Principal Mike Biro (left) presents Matt Holden with a certificate honoring him for being a Commended Student in the Merit Scholarship program. (Crestview photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A letter of commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, will be presented by the principal to this scholastically talented senior.<\/p>\n<p>About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are currently being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2012 competition for National Merit Scholarships, Commended Students placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2012 competition by taking the 2010 Preliminary SAT\/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT\/NMSQT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe young men and women being named Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success,\u201d commented a NMSC spokesperson. \u201cThese students represent a valuable national resource:\u00a0 recognizing the accomplishments, as well as the key role their schools play in their academic development, is vital to the advancement of educational excellence in our nation.\u00a0 We hope that this recognition will help broaden their educational opportunities and encourage them as they continue their pursuit of academic success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONVOY &#8212; Crestview High School Principal Michael L. Biro announced Monday that Matthew Holden has been named a Commended Student in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program. A letter of commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, will be presented by the principal to this scholastically talented senior. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youth"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 16:41:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}