Senior Mahlet Assefa has been named an Outstanding Participant in the National Achievement Scholarship Program. She is one of just 3,100 students to receive this distinction. To qualify, Mahlet scored in the top three percent of Black Americans who requested consideration for the program when they took the PSAT last spring. Mahlet attends Health Sciences and Human Services High School (HS3), one of three small high schools on the Evergreen Campus in White Center.

The National Achievement Scholarship Program honors academically promising Black American high school students. The names of Outstanding Participants are referred to U.S. colleges and universities.