Congratulations to:

University of Kentucky freshman Dion Compton, recently awarded the first scholarship through the Legacy Equine Foundation.

Carey Cockerell of Georgetown, appointed to Kentucky State Advisory Council for exceptional Children.

The following 2018 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists:

Henry Clay: Donald Andrews, Quinn Andrews, Augustine Carlson, Alexander Chinigo, Nicholas Joseph, Saurav Khadka, Angelica Malkowski, Ian Schaeffer and Daryn Smith.

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Dina Birioukova, Jonathan Browning, Kelly Chen, Adarsh Chithraia, Jin Cho, Emma Draper, Christopher Duncan, Zsombor Gal, Madilyn Halwes, Elizabeth Hausman, Blake Jaeger, Ellora Kamineni, Akhil Kesaraju, Rohith Kesaraju, Linda Kim, Jennifer Lee, David Ma, Mingxi Mao, Erin Markel, Maxwell Qiu, Julia Radhakrishnan, Nathaniel Rukavina, Tejaswini Sudhakar and Hannah Wang.

Lafayette:  Austin Booth,Sarah Gleeson, David Lister

Lexington Catholic: John Ang, Connor Greenwell, Spencer Kriss, Catherine Vazzana

Lexington Christian: Colten Crager, Jacob Thornsberry

Sayre School:  Ramzi Hamdalla, Gregory Kimmerer, Edward Morris

Trinity Christian: Noah Edwards-Thro, Benjamin Waters

West Jessamine: Timothy Rohe

Madison Central: Tyler Hall, Ryan McManus

Model Lab:  Jarett Inski, Patrick Ninoromele

Woodford County: Seth Allen, Sarah Potts

Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles, elected Secretary-Treasurer of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture.