(QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- A Concord teen was named a 2025 U.S. Presidential Scholar, the Department of Education announced Monday.

The U.S. Department of Education today announced the selection of Nihar R. Kummetha, who graduated from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham. He is one of 161 selections from across the country and among the three selections from North Carolina.

Kummetha is currently a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania.

The honorees have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, artistic excellence, technical expertise, leadership, citizenship, service, and contribution to school and community. Scholars are selected annually based on their academic success, artistic and technical excellence, essays, school evaluations and transcripts, as we

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