Within our very own Freehold Township High School, many different classes, teams and clubs celebrate the holiday season in various ways. Many groups, choose to focus on helping others, even with cookies!

In all of the Food Science and Nutrients classes, students have been focusing on their cookie unit. They learned about and made the different classifications of cookies while studying the cookie unit. As they learned how to bake the different types of cookies, they would put aside some cookies from each batch and freeze them for the donation.  As a result, we are donating over 40 cookie platters to local groups in need. This collection of cookies goes towards three amazing causes, all local and meaningful to us.

Cookies are donated to the organizations Feed All God’s Children, tent city in Howell, and a woman’s abuse home in Toms River. This tradition has been going for about 10 years and continues to be a way for students to give back this holiday season.

Mrs. Blair, who organizes the donation, says, “Donating cookies to help those in need is a feel-good for the students. They take such pride while making the cookies and decorating the platters to bring smiles to those in need”

Sophomore Payton Mckinney agrees, saying “Especially during the holiday time, it’s important to give to those less fortunate and even something as simple as giving back cookies to the community is rewarding. It has also been nice to see everyone work so hard in the food science department”