WOBM/Gateway Toyota/Scion Student of the Week

The WOBM/Gateway Toyota/Scion Student of the Week program is about to conclude its 12th year of honoring some of the best seniors from 18 Ocean County High Schools. Each Monday during the school year I have told you about the accomplishments of some truly amazing young men and women and this year a total of 41 will have been honored with an on-air tribute on 92.7 WOBM. Each of our weekly recipients also receives a framed certificate from us and two students from each school go into a random drawing for a $1000 college scholarship with that drawing to be held live on the air at 7:20 this morning. The winner is Jordan Berardi from Monsignor Donovan High School

When I first started the program in 1996 the goal was to simply pay tribute
to some of the best high school seniors in the county and nobody could have imagined this would become a WOBM tradition. Over the years we have honored more than 450 students and have even added new schools like Barnegat, New Egypt and the MATES program through the county vocational technical school district and next year Jackson Liberty comes into the fold.

There are several reasons why the Student of the Week program works so well and it starts with Gateway Toyota/Scion of Toms River. When we first approached Vice President Ed Sunday about partnering with us and being a sponsor he enthusiastically said “yes” and has continued to do so every year. Not only do they sponsor the weekly on-air tributes to the students they and Millennium Radio Group split the cost of the $1000 college scholarship we will announce in a couple of hours. It’s been a terrific partnership and one we hope will continue for years to come.

I also want to thank the participating schools for their cooperation in promoting the positive contributions many students make to their schools and communities. It is the schools who select the students with the criteria we provide and all of them have been great to work with once again this year.