Three students at Manahawkin’s Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science – Everett Botwinick, Joseph R. Kane and Seamus P. Watson – are semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Corp.’s 67th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

The 16,000 semifinalists, academically talented high school seniors, will compete for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $30 million that will be offered next spring.