Students from three Germantown high schools were among the 15 Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students to receive full-paid, four-year college scholarships from the Posse Foundation, school officials announced Tuesday.

The Posse program identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential that might have been overlooked by traditional college selection processes. The local recipients are:

• Affan Ahmad, Northwest High School, attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison;
• Brianna Braswell, Seneca Valley High School, attending Lafayette College
• Ramzi Ebeid, Seneca Valley High School, attending Bucknell University

Thirty-eight colleges and universities each offer full-tuition scholarships to students throughout the country and create multicultural teams—called Posses—on each campus. These student teams receive guidance before and throughout college and provide support to one another. On campus, these students serve in important leadership roles.

Nearly 1,600 students were nominated nationwide for the scholarships. Posse D.C. awarded 61 scholarships to students in Washington D.C.-area school districts.  

This is the second consecutive year in which MCPS has had 15 Posse Foundation scholarship winners and this year’s recipients come from 12 different schools. They are:

• Ashton Cane, Paint Branch High School, attending Pepperdine University
• Irvin Cedillo, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, attending Lafayette College
• Nicholas Chisholm, Rockville High School, attending Grinnell College
• Ahmed Elnaiem, Richard Montgomery High School, attending Bucknell University
• Natasha Frazier, Col. Zadok Magruder High School, attending Pepperdine University
• Nailah Frye, Rockville High School, attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• David Hylton, James Hubert Blake High School, attending Pepperdine University
• Stephanie Marquez, Wheaton High School, attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Christian Mendoza, Walter Johnson High School, attending Lafayette College
• Kimberley Nidah, Winston Churchill High School, attending Bucknell University
• Elizabeth Olsen, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Audrey Loic Yatdon Tchoukoua, Montgomery Blair High School, attending Sewanee: The University of the South