On December 19, twenty-six juniors were called down to the main office to receive their academic or citizenship awards for various departments with Freehold Township High School. These students were hand-picked by their teachers to be recognized as Students of the Month for the month of December. When given their custom certificates and pins, the Patriot Press asked a few of them what their favorite part about their corresponding department is. Here are this month’s recipients, as well as their responses:

Academic Awards:

Animal & Botanical: Allyson Gambacorta

Art Department: Sophia Ribas

Business Department: Gianna Neron

Classical and World Languages: Alexa Pincaro

English Department: Adelaide Bertrand

“Reading all the stories”.

Family & Consumer Science: Selina Shaikh

Global Studies Magnet Program: Eli Druckman

“The people. All my friends, all my teachers, all the people in Global”.

IB Program: Gabriela Kierzkowski

Music: Bridget O’Beirne

Math: Madeline Reiser

Science: Lizi Bakradze

Social Studies: Olivia Adinolfi

“Learning about history”.

Technology: Samuel Continelli

Citizenship Awards:

Animal & Botanical: Mariah Andujar

Art Department: Caitlyn Bailey

Business Department: Gianna Aldana

English Department: Sophia Muller

Family & Consumer Science: Dominick Esposito

Global Studies Magnet Program: Jordyn Opatut

“The community”.

IB Program: Danny Lanza

“Our classes, our teachers, and the community we built together”.

Music: Bryan Rodriguez-Velasco

Math: Kaleb Shaw

Science: Holly Matthews

“I love all the teachers and I love the subject. I think I’m go into science or some[thing] math-related.

Social Studies: Jumar Irvin

Technology: Justin Storm