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Board Recognizes Large Group of Students For Different Activities

Recognition comes from student government to academic competitions

Before the Howell Board of Education took up its regular business on Wednesday night, the meeting started with a presentation to students in a wide range of grade levels. 

The first group to be recognized was students from Memorial Middle School who had taken part in at town hall earlier this month. The board also recognized Howell Township Clerk Bruce Davis for continuing to make the event a success after more than a decade.

Those students recognized were: Katie Carbone, Joseph Fifield, Hannah Burke, Natalie Doucette, Victoria Clark, Katie Capestro, Kyle Henderson, Kelly Fallon, Julia Earley, Courtney Ortiz-Cseh, Tiffani Brown, Brooke Trotta, Mariam Kahn, Paula Lee, Brett Wynalek, Dan Carhuff, and Jarod Danscuk.

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Also participating were Anthony Ventrone, Aaron Holowienka, Logan Thomson, Andrew Segreti, Travis Kirk, Palmer Demick, Emma Pergola, Sydney Sabino, Antonio Trupio, Kaylee Bennett, Raquel Yersin, Lorraine Ly, Angela Lee, Andy Acerra, DAn Mato and Kyle Hutra. 

There was also a presentation made for students who were recognized with the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Award. The program "identifies, assesses and recognizes students with exceptional mathematical and/or verbal and reasoning abilities," according to the district.

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Of the six students recognized from Middle School South, three received the honor for math and three for reading. Justin Ayres, Nicolette Runko and Ryan Snyder as well as Elyssa Wrubel were noted for math, while Wrubel received recognition for math and reading. Sarah Wu also was given credit for reading.

From Middle School North, Joanna Barton, Matthew Davis, Walter Kelso and Ethan Tien were recognized for math as students at Middle School North, while Jessica Webber and Brett Zajac were recognized for reading. 

Three students from Memorial were also recognized on Wednesay with Mick Lee earning distinction in Math and Paula Lee and Alexander Wu performing well in reading.

Students also were recognized for their academic teamwork as they competed in the Monsignor Donovan Scholastic Olympics. The event tests categories like math, art, history, science, spelling computers and language arts. 

The students, from Middle School North brought home gold, silver and bronze awards in most every category for a successful day against tough competition. Making their school proud during the event were Kelly Garretson, Ethan Tien, Brett Zajac, Kaylee O'Donnell, Bernadette Torres, Sianin Spaur, Christopher Karn, Einar Magnusson, Joanna Barton and Kayleigh Wilson.

There were also younger students in the district recognized for various accomplishments at the meeting. Six representatives from Land O'Pines travelled to the Goetz Academic Bowl recently to compete against other schools from around Monmouth and Ocean Counties and came home with the fourth place trophy. The students were Jacob Hoglund, Rohan Malik, Clivia Ferraro, Chloe Holod, Riley McGowan and Miranda Schindler.

The LOP School also saw two of its students show well in the Species on the Edge Art and Essay Contest where students said why they believed conserving endangered animals in the state was important. Daniel Goodman was announced as the Monmouth County winner while Carlie Goldfarb took second place.

Two students from Newbury were also recognized at the meeting, including Shane Matus for taking honorable mention in the Monmouth County Family History Essay Contest and Alexandra Anronikov who won the American Legion Coloring Contest for the Donald J. Peacock Memorial Post #178 in Farmingdale.

Helping to recognize the students were principals and other administrators from around the district as well as the board members who expressed how proud they were of how well the young residents of the town had represented their town and their schools.


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