December STUDENTS OF THE MONTH: We are proud to announce The Students of the Month have been selected for December 2018. They are:

Freshman –Joseph Laezza Sophomore – Christian Cipolletta

Junior – Grace Fox Senior – Madison Lucarelli

The above students have met the following Criteria: 1. Must meet high academic standards in class. 2. Exhibit positive character and influence on class/school, dignity, respect, trustworthiness, responsibility, caring, and citizenship. 3. No unexcused lates of any kind for the month. No discipline referrals in the last month. Congratulations to all of you!

BASKETBALL The Varsity Boys’ Basketball Team won the Monroe Holiday Tournament by beating Brick Township at the buzzer with a 51-49 win on a Josh Daniels’ putback layup. Josh Daniels led the Falcons with 25 points. Michael Kides followed with 11 points and Andrew Turco added 7 points.

Congratulations to the team!

STEM ACADEMY More than 25 students in the class of 2020 and 2021 STEM Academy interested in pursuing careers in STEM-related fields along with 15 teachers participated in the

Fall STEM Portfolio Workshop on December 4th. The topics that were part of this unique event included networking, portfolio development and branding yourself for a STEM-based career. This event continued a multi-year effort of teacher-lead project-based activities and one-on-one mentorship to STEM students as they develop their personal digital portfolio. Special thanks goes out to the teachers that participated in this very special event, including Sharon DeMarco, Vanitha Gaurishanker, Eugene Giaquinto, Victoria Giblin, Nicole Gross, Nicolette Hommer, Larissa Miller, George Pangalos, Megan Price, Kelly Rick, Tim Riesz, Pete Ruckdeschel, Varsha Sharma, Richard Suhr, Mark Stranieri and Terri Weiss.

TED X The TEDx Club hosted their first annual TED talk. The topic of the TED Talk was "Change", and it included 14 students and adults who spoke on topics ranging from advances in medicine to self love.

The TEDx Club and Key Club hosted a Toy Drive where they

collected over 100 toys. Congratulations on a successful toy

drive!

FBLA Congratulations to the following teams from Monroe Township High School who advanced to

compete in the JA Titans Regional Round competition at Munich Re, Princeton, NJ on January 29,

2019.

Team Name Members

Innovation

Vasista Banala

Pranav Narang

Ishaan Sharan

Team Name Members

Some Assembly Required

Amarkrishna Reddy

Ansh Pandya

Tanush Nagavelli

Team Name Members

WIJU

Gaurav Pandey

Rijukeya Prakasam

Aarav Makadia

Team Name Members

Stufoos

Rushil Parikh

Kevish Shah

Erin Kaul

MTHS/FBLA STUDENTS ADVANCE AT THE

REGIONAL COMPETITIVE EVENT CONFERENCE TO THE SLC

49 FBLA members placed in 24 events at the FBLA RCE (Regional Competitive Events) in December 2018. These students qualified to compete at the FBLA SLC (State Leadership Conference) in March 2019 in Atlantic City, NJ.

We are beyond proud of their achievements, dedication, leadership and success! Please see the FINAL RESULT list on the next page broken down by Monroe Township event/award winners who placed in each event. Congratulations to all on a job well done!

EVENT First Name Last Name Place Qualifier

Computer Problem Solving Paul Barsa 1 State Qualifier

Management Information Systems Shreya Sameera

Shah Shah 1 State Qualifier

Organizational Leadership Saanya Lingineni 1 State Qualifier

Computer Applications Megha Jain 2 State Qualifier

Journalism Melissa Tan 2 State Qualifier

Networking Concepts Abahy Sheshadri 2 State Qualifier

Business Communications Adit Mandadi 3 State Qualifier

Database Design & Development Nikhil Ghate 3 State Qualifier

Entrepreneurship Pranav Pranay Anshul

Reddy Narang Rana

3 State Qualifier

Help Desk Bhakti Ramani 3 State Qualifier

Hospitality Management Riyana Sreeja

Doshi Mamillapalli 3 State Qualifier

Insurance Risk & Management Soham Patel 3 State Qualifier

Introduction to Business Procedures Thanmayee Kavuri 3 State Qualifier

Introduction to Financial Math Jason Chin 3 State Qualifier

Networking Concepts Naveen Gedupoori 3 State Qualifier

Organizational Leadership Monisha Kapadia 3 State Qualifier

Computer Applications Pranav Polasam 4 State Qualifier

Help Desk Hanna Zelcer 4 State Qualifier

Journalism Riya Patel 4 State Qualifier

Management Information Systems Aman Varun

Thakkar Kumar 4 State Qualifier

Management Information Systems Vidhi Ranjita

Modi Suresh 5 State Qualifier

Network Design Ishani Mahathi Shriya

Anklesaria Gundlapalli Singh

5 State Qualifier

Organizational Leadership Dhruv Reddy 5 State Qualifier

Political Science Ria Patel 5 State Qualifier

Business Communications Sarina Kapadia 6 State Qualifier

Help Desk Harivadan Koppuri 6 State Qualifier

Insurance Risk & Management Misaal Singh 6 State Qualifier

Journalism Seva Soni 6 State Qualifier

Word Processing Jack Farina 6 State Qualifier Economics Nikola Daninski 7 State Qualifier

Help Desk Gina Scalero 7 State Qualifier

Introduction to Information Technology Keerthana Talla 7 State Qualifier

Networking Concepts Harshit Gupta 7 State Qualifier

Business Law Saahithi Dantuluri 8 State Qualifier

Computer Applications Anirudha Uppugunduri 8 State Qualifier

Healthcare Administration Pranathi Miryala 8 State Qualifier

Introduction to Business Samarth Sharma 8 State Qualifier

Introduction to Business Procedures Shelly Singhvi 8 State Qualifier

Networking Concepts Navya Malapanagudi 8 State Qualifier

Personal Finance Karan Nayak 8 State Qualifier

Securities & Investments Rushil Parikh 8 State Qualifier