Adah Harding is the sole county public school recipient of a coveted scholarship from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. The Arundel High School senior was chosen from a talented group of 15,000 students from across the country and is among 52 from the state of Maryland who will each receive a single-payment scholarship worth $2,500 to pursue post-secondary studies. Harding plans to study biomedical engineering. 
Students earn the honor based on their excellent academic records, standardized test performances, school and community leadership, essay submissions, and high school recommendations.
With other corporate-sponsored scholarships already awarded and college-sponsored scholarship winners to be announced throughout the spring and summer, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation will award about $28 million this year.