Tilberg’s award comes in the 25th year of the award being meted out since its inception in 1993, but she is the 26th individual to receive the ABMS. 

Tilberg, an aspiring orthopedic surgeon, and a student at the University of Missouri, has been awarded a scholarship valued at $140,000.

At her drive-through high school graduation, Tilberg said she planned to study biology at the University of Miami and chose the course of study because she wanted to emulate her parents who are both dentists.

“I would like to find a way to help people in the ways that they do,” said Tilberg. “I have seen how much of an impact they have on the people around them, especially during the pandemic. They were constantly busy handling emergency cases, so that others in the community would not have to suffer.”

Sawyer, a biomedical engineer major at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been awarded a $100,000 scholarship.

Earning $80,000 National Merit Scholarships were Kemuel Clarke, a graduate of Queen’s College; Alyssa Forbes, a St. Augustine’s College graduate; Kiran Halkitis, a 2019 SAC graduate/United World Costa Rica; and Katrell King, a Queen’s College graduate.

Rashad Rolle, Bishop Michael Eldon School graduate; Jasmine Adamson, a Kingsway Academy graduate; and Dariq Chase, a graduate of Aquinas College were the recipients of $60,000 Merit Scholarships.

Tilberg, the SAC valedictorian who graduated with a 3.99 grade point average (GPA), scored 1,400 on her Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), and also passed 10 Bahamas General Certificate of Secondary Examinations (BGCSE) with grades of A.

She has declared a premedical science course of study.

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