Congratulations to:

Kentucky State University, first-place winner of $50,000 in the Home Depot Retool Your School contest.  The university will use the grant to add more outdoor seating and improve the look of the campus in Frankfort.

Linday Karns and Marlana Pressley-Wallace, both of Lexington, among the winners of the Women Making History award.

These National Merit $2500 Scholarship Winners:

Kenneth T. Whitsell, Boyle County High School; Tamara E. Rudic, Western Hills High School; Elizabeth E. Duncan, Scott County High School; Sameer Ahmed, Emily Y. Liu, Ananth Miller-Murthy and Benjamin W. Xie, all from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School; Nathan S. Dutch and Lucy M. Sandmeyer Whitman, both from Henry Clay High School; Russell F. Scaife of Bryan Station High School and Andrew H. Wachal of Lafayette High School.