Martin Crowe of Owensboro, Kentucky has been named Finalist in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Competition. Marty is President of the La Lumiere School Spanish National Honor Society and has been inducted into the Serviam Century Club for achieving 100+ hours of community service. Marty is a member of La Lumiere’s Varsity Crew team and serves as the School’s Residential Life Prefect.
During this past summer, Marty traveled on a service trip to Peru to spend eight weeks working with Amigos de las Américas, an organization that inspires and builds young leaders through collaborative community development and immersion in cross-cultural experiences. Additionally, Marty participates in La Lumiere’s chapter of the Big Brother/Big Sister program and works with children at a local school as a reading buddy.
More than 1.5 million students entered the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. Less than one-percent of the applicants were elevated to the status of Semifinalists. To become a Finalist, a Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the high school principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.