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03/07/2024 03:13 PMPress Release from East Haven Rotary Club
The East Haven Rotary Club recently honored its Student of the Month recipients for November and December of the 2023-’24 academic year.
The rotary’s first recipient of this distinction is Aedan Conners as the November Student of the Month. Conners has been a member of the boys’ swimming team and the boys’ tennis team, in addition to competing for Bulldog Swimming out of Yale for seven years. Conners is also a member of Future Business Leaders of America, the Math League, and the National Honor Society, along with being a Schoolhouse (Khan Academy) SAT tutor and peer tutor. His future plans include attending college to study finance, business, or accounting, along with joining a college swim team and continuing to provide SAT tutoring.
The rotary also presented Dominic Hood with the honor of being the December Student of the Month. Hood has studied karate for five years and has been a part of the Science Club since 2020. He is planning to apply to the University of Connecticut, Southern Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, and Central Connecticut State University, and would like to study botany and genetics.
Each month, the East Haven Rotary Club the recognizes a student from East Haven High School’s (EHHS) junior class. The club makes these presentations at Superintendent Erica Forti’s monthly, district-wide Students of the Month Assembly, which takes place on the last Friday of the month in the Media Center at the EHHS. The East Haven Rotary Club presents each honoree with a certificate, a commemorative rotary coin, and a check for $100. Winners then become eligible for the $1,000 Jack Leary Memorial Scholarship to be awarded at the end of their senior year. The club, now in its 86th year, was organized on March 3, 1939.