Mercer Island High School students, from left to right, Tong Lin, Samara Bluming, Charlotte Wood, Rachel Senn, Eliot Geer, Miles Silverman and Emily Horton King have been named 2023 National Merit finalists. In other school news, Islander Middle School seventh-graders in Patri Collins’ social studies class recently facilitated the collection of $919 from their fellow classmates for the Red Cross for Turkey-Syria Earthquake Relief. Collins dropped off the relief to Emily Kohler at the Northwest Region Red Cross. Photo courtesy of the Mercer Island School District