Many of the high school's seniors were recognized Monday, receiving awards and scholarships for both academic, athletic and charitable activities and organizations at the annual ceremony.
Students at were invited to attend the ceremony, but were not told what they were set to receive. They found out with the audience during the ceremony.
Continue reading to see the names of all the student award-recipients:
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NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP FINALISTS
- Arvind Anandacoumar
- William Cane-Wissing
- Stephen Decker
- Michael Duan
- Nivas Govindarajan
- Lucy Lin
- Jonathan Lu
- Nikhil Naidhu
- Theresa O'Shea
- Kaixi Wu
- Betty Yang
- Dennis Yi
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP COMMENDED STUDENTS
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- Kazim M. Ali
- Matthew H. Archibald
- Romoli Bakshi
- Michelle L. Bone
- Louis M. Brown
- Karen T. Bu
- Thomas J. Chong
- Matthew R. Cirasa
- Celeste M. Cirillo-Penn
- Erin C. Corrado
- Taylor A. Delgado
- Savi K. Desai
- Marisa H. DiPaolo
- John A. Gallagher
- Michael W. Giallorenzo
- Jason S. Ginsberg
- Stephanie M. Jacobs
- Akshay Jagadeesh
- Alexander Kaminetzky
- Sneha Kannoth
- Daniel M. Kim
- Nicole H. Koplitz
- Michelle Li
- Kyle E. Lindheimer
- Sara K. Lyons
- Michelle W. Ma
- Akaash H. Mittal
- Evan M. Mock
- Ashwin Murthy
- Anagha Narayanan
- Kaitlin E. O'Rourke
- Suneil Parimoo
- Parth Patel
- Neha Pathmanaban
- Randolph Qian
- Joe Remmett
- Eugene Reviakin
- Andreas I. Savva
- Amber E. Schrum
- Helen Sdvizhkov
- Keneil K. Shah
- Grace W. Shih
- Sapna Sundar
- Brian J. Trimboli
- Kathleen L. Tung
- Esther R. Vinarov
- Mariah J. Xu
- Franklin Yin
- Ariella Yosafat
- Joyce Y. Zhu
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
- Daniel Ye
NATIONAL MERIT SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIP, Sponsored by Corporations
- Stefanie Albert—Crum & Forster Scholarship
- Erin Corrado—Siemens Scholarship
- Ryan Moore—PPG Industries Foundation Scholarship
- Neha Pathmanaban—James E. Casey Scholarship
NATIONAL MERIT SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIP, Sponsored by Colleges
- Stephen C. Decker—Washington University in St. Louis
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY
- Roger Castle
UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
- Amos Lee
JOSEPH SICOLA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Celina Page
CHRIS WARD MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Michelle Sanchie
PERFECT ATTENDANCE FOR FOUR YEARS AT BRHS
- Melissa Chiu
- Mark Tantoco
- Brendan Torres
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS SCHOALRSHIP EXCELLENCE AWARD
- Daniel Ye
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS DISTINGUISHED ATHLETE AWARD
- Kyle Coulter
- Caroline Surville
THE SOMERSET COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP
- Allesandra DelPrincipe
- Sandra Forktus
BALLIET SCHOLARSHIP
- Sandra Forktus
WEGMANS SCHOLARSHIP
- Matthew Archibald
- Casey Camperchioli
- Kevin Marceski
- Ariella Yosafat
ROBERT M. FOGARTY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
- Sean Leary
BRIDGEWATER WOMEN'S CLUB BELVA LOCKWOOD HUGHSON MEMORIAL
- Rebecca Orlando
BRIDGEWATER WOMEN'S CLUB
- Angela Ning
THIRD REFORMED CHURCH
- Akshay Jagadeesh
COUNSELING & THERAPY SERVICES
- Melissa Forte
SYAGE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
- Colin Critchlow
THE SYAGE TEAM SPIRIT AWARD
- Gabrielle Almeida
- Sarah Barlow
RARITAN REPUBLICAN CLUB—DOLFE BARBERI MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Eva Alpizar
- Brian Trimboli
AMERICAN LEGION JOHN BASILONE POST 280, RARITAN BRANCH JOHN OBZANSKY IN MEMORY
- Timothy Shanagher
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION STUDENT RECOGNITION
- Jason Ginsberg
- Sneha Kannoth
- Theresa O'Shea
- Kaixi Wu
- Daniel Ye
- Dennis Yi
JAMES C. KELLY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Prasad Prayaga
ANDREW J. AND DOLORES C. HUDEC MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Greg Mulroy
- Emily Szymoniak
HINDU TEMPLE AND CULTURAL SOCIETY BRIDGEWATER EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Prarena Chailaivanichkul
- James Conlon
SGT. LARRY WORTH MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP BRIDGEWATER POLICEMEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOC. LOCAL #174
- Ethan Nestel
- Jill Prusarczyk
BRIDGEWATER TOWNSHIP POLICE HONOR GUARD SCHOLARSHIP
- Adam Elwood
SOMERSET AERIE #2137 ORDER OF THE EAGLES
- Nivas Govindarajan
DANIELLE FEDORTION MEMORIAL
- Shane Carmody
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN BOARD OF EDUCATION
- Michael DiPascali
BRIDGEWAY SENIOR HEALTH CARE SCHOLARSHIP
- Stefanie Albert
HARRIS COHEN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Stephen Decker
- Erin Eckert
MICHAEL E. DOLEGIEWITZ MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Karen Bu
- Brian Trimboli
RARITAN POST WAR CLUB SCHOLARSHIP
- Eva Alpizar
- Shelby Bonetti
- Megan Dorer
- Patrick Ronk
BRIDGEWATER DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE SCHOLARSHIP
- Melissa Forte
BRADLEY GARDENS SCHOOL PTO BERNICE FRANCHINO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
- Patrick Moody
MARY ZSUFFA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Kaitlin O'Rourke
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OUR LADY OF THE HILLS COUNCIL #5959, THE JOSEPH P. MARINACCIO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Sean Lenahan
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OUR LADY OF THE HILLS COUNCIL #5959
- Lauren Luginslad
- Christine Wisniewski
ANDREW J. HABERLE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Madeline Reese
CORNELIUS AND GLADYS HOBBS SCHOLARSHIP
- Dorisa Rodney
BEACON AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT
- Jonathan Estrada
BEACON AWARD FOR SERVICE
- Caroline Murphy
DIANE S. ABITABLIO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Celeste Cirillo-Penn
MILLINGTON SAVINGS BANK
- Kazim Ali
- Michelle Sanchie
ALEXANDRA & RONALD VITALE EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP
- Cara McPhillips
DR. JOSEPH P. McGARRY SCHOLARSHIP
- Alana Huszar
HARRY ROBINSON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Megan Fanurik
"SMILE OF YOUR LIFE" SANFORD ORTHODONTICS SCHOLARSHIP
- Bianca Olsen
CHRIS COPPOLA CDUB FOUNDATION
- Helen Sdvizhkov
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN HIGH SCHOOL'S 1970'S ALUMNI
- Matthew Egan
- Nicholas Pedevillano
THE SEEING EYE PUPPY RAISING PROGRAM
- Kaileen Campbell
- Kathryn Heidgerd
THE EPIC AWARD
- Juhi Duggirala
- Erika Lim
- Grace McCarron
- Sapna Sundar
PROWLER AWARD
- Celeste Cirillo-Penn
DRAMA AWARDS
- Jordan Chaffiotte
- Prarena Chailaivanichkul
- Sarah Coddington
- Marisa DiPaolo
- Brooke Dobossy
- Jorden Erenberg
- Melanie Fernandes
- Michael Freyberger
- Courtney Kemner
- Casey LaCanna
- Jessica Lyons
- Pratheek Mangini
- Anthony Meringolo
- Gina Palombi
- Michelle Palombi
- Alec Richards
- Grace Shih
- Sapier Weinglass
DEPARTMENT OF STUDENT SERVICES AWARD
- Emma Lau
STUDENT SERVICES SCHOLARSHIP
- Lauren Breffeilh
- Emily Willard
DEPARTMENT OF STUDENT SERVICES TRANSITION SCHOLARSHIP
- Laura Lattanzio
BONNIE MECH MEMORIAL BUSINESS AWARD
- Anna Di Marco
IN MEMORY OF BONNIE MECH
- Rebecca Stamer
THE JOAO JOSE "JOHN" SANTOS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION AWARD
- Thomas Gardner
- Sydney Triola
RYAN WILLIAM FLEDERBACH SCHOLARSHIP
- Kyle Fernandes
THAT 70'S REUNION
- Alaura Atkinson
- Julian Dorsey
- Shyanne Huber
- Emily Resuta
- Crystal Uminski
HAMILTON DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD
- Jonathan Lu
WOMEN IN GEOSCIENCES
- Michelle Bone
- Michelle Li
- Kimberly Radwanski
- Miloni Shah
- Sophia Young
- Crystal Uminski
NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY
- Jason Ginsberg
STUDENT COUNCIL AWARDS
The Council Achievement Award
- Stephen Danyluk
- Salvatore Vitello
The Distinguished Excellence Award
- Michael DiPascali
- Martina Figel
The John Basilone Leadership Award
- Emily Derrico
ACADEMIC TEAM
- Michael Duan
- Nivas Govindarajan
- Theresa O'Shea
- Andreas Savva
- Grace Shi
- Daniel Ye
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN DISTRICT PTO SCHOLARSHIPS
- Katelyn Barone
- Zachary Berlant
- Raymond Bertram
- Abigail Bloomer
- Natalie Bogaczewicz
- Kenneth Campbell
- Michael Condo
- William Cornell
- Alexander Crudo
- Jared Demel
- Alexander Elia
- Hannah Gerber
- Michael Gerlach
- Arka Ghose
- Michael Giallorenzo
- Saloni Goyal
- Richard Grace
- Lauren Granahan
- Jared Guritzky
- Brianca Hart
- Audra Hofacker
- Nicholas Jones
- Samantha Jones
- Zachary Jones
- Joshua Kasman
- Erika Lim
- John Longordo
- Sara Lyons
- Gabrielle Ann Magsino
- Jessica Marconi
- Matthew McLawrence Ajeet Mohan
- Nicholas Mossa
- Sahaj Mujumdar
- Desiree O'Brien
- Nicholas Oliver
- Krista Pacillo
- Dominic Palombi
- Gina Palombi
- Michelle Palombi
- Trisha Patel
- Dylan Perez
- Kelsey Pontarollo
- Chelsea Riordan
- Danielle Rodriguez
- Pawel Ryback
- Jenna Sacks
- Michelle Sanchie
- Tarj Shah
- Alexander Ward
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN HIGH SCHOOL PTO HONORARIUMS
- Alexander Belly
- Grant Bolles
- Kate Bradell
- Louis Brown
- Carla Cane-Wissing
- Thomas Chong
- Christine Cocca
- Kyle Coulter
- Adrianna DelPrincipe
- Eileen Durma
- Daniel Enny
- Joseph Fisahn
- John Gallagher
- Timur Ganapolsky
- Evette Gofayzen
- Stephanie Goodin
- Rebecca Gullickson
- Lauren Haggerty
- Catherine Heiba
- Vivian Huang
- Jennifer Jahn
- Daniel Kim
- Brian Kleszyk
- Nicole Lobell
- Megan Lynch
- Ari Markowitz
- Raymond Mastroianni
- William Mone
- Ryan Moore
- Caroline Murphy
- Megna Narasimhan
- Nhung Nguyen
- Alexander Olan
- Anthony Pagnotta
- Sainath Palani
- Neha Patel
- Parth Patel
- Tejas Patel
- Pallavi Pillutta
- Natasha Pojedinec
- Alex Polyakov
- Yevgeniy Revyakin
- Jake Roberts
- James Romano
- Giulia Santoro
- Emily Schwiederek
- Jordan Scrape
- Breann Sliker
- Eileen Smith
- Kyle Surette
- Bridget Sweetman
- Mallika Tatikola
- Esther Vinarov
- Jeffrey Wong
- Betty Yuan
- Joyce Zhu
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN HIGH SCHOOL PTO SELECT HONORARIUMS
- Stephanie Ament
- Joseph Avenoso
- Max Bradley
- Alessandra DelPrincipe
- Sandra Forktus
- Cyrus Heidary
- Philip Marton
- Michael Matone
- Sandy Poma
- Thanaporn Sermsuwan
- Dekontee Sherman
- Valeria Zevallos
- Sisheng Zhang
COUNCIL OF SCHOOLS HONORARIUMS
- Avantka Butani
- Erin Casey
- Bremin Clark
- Alec Garrity
- Aaron Golding
- John Goode
- Alexander Hopkins
- Patrick Howarth
- Brianna Janelli
- Danielle Kemble
- Erica Kim
- Kimberly Lawton
- Bonnie Lisk
- Gregory Matarazzo
- Laurell McCaffrey
- Nicole McClelland
- Benjamin Pearl
- Alexander Untoria
- Botond Veress
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN HIGH SCHOOL PANTHER ATHLETIC CLUB AWARDS
- Joseph Avenoso
- Zachary Berlant
- Jessica Casterline
- Thomas Chong
- Celeste Cirillo-Penn
- Kyle Coulter
- Erin Eckert
- Thomas Gardner
- Alexander Kaminetzky
- Andrew Kolen
- Lauren Luginsland
- Evan Mock
- Anthony Mandraccia
- David Monahan III
- Caroline Murphy
- Robert Paul
- Daniel Picciurro
- Jill Prusarczyk
- Emily Willard
HRINKOIGALIDA SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
- Nicholas Mossa
POP WARNER SCHOLARSHIP
- Scott Bieda
- James Burke
- Martina Figul
- Charles Furey
- Andrew Kolen
- Robert Myers
- Kelsey Pontarollo
- John Wukowits
PROJECT GRADUATION SCHOLARSHIP
- Michelle Bone
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT AWARD
- Ashwin Murthy
- Suneil Parimoo
WILLIAM APSLEY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Joseph Avenoso
NEW YORK MICROSCOPE COMPANY INC. BIOLOGY AWARD
- Kelsey Wolff
SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
- Erin Corrado
- Andrew Liou
- Michael Freyberger
- Kenneth Campbell
SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT AWARD
- Stephen Decker
- Mitra Ghandeharizadeh
- Gregory Mulroy
- Patrick Ronk
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION OLD WHITEHOUSE—GENERAL FRELINGHUYSEN COLONEL LOWREY CHAPTER GOOD CITIZEN AWARD
- Amy Hopper
PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
- Tina Colatriano
- John Wukovits
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AWARD
- Jonathan Lu
- Ariella Yosafat
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CONSISTENT ACHIEVEMENT AND EFFORT IN ENGLISH
- Erin Corrado
BUSINESS EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Overall Business Education Program
- Patrick Ronk
Academic Intern Program
- Kimberly Radwanski
Accounting Program
- Lauren Granahan
- Aashritha Marepalli
Computer Program
- Zachary Muller
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES DEPARTMENT
Awarded for excellence in all Areas
- Andre Barquero
Awarded for excellence in Fashion Design
- Claudia Mendoza
Awarded for excellence in Family and Child
- Monica Vaidya
Awarded for excellence in Foods
- Stephanie Schaefer
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
AutoCAD
- Karoline Sperber
Wood Technology
- Nicole Poplawski
ART DEPARTMENT AWARD FOR PAINTING AND DRAWING
- Phillis Hai
- Mariah Xu
ART DEPARTMENT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING OVERALL ACHIEVEMENT IN FINE ART, ARCHITECTURE
- Lauren Pelletier
MUSIC DEPARTMENT AWARD
- Rebecca Orlando
NATIONAL SCHOOL CHORAL AWARD
- Struan Erlenborn
CHORAL DIRECTOR'S AWARD
- Marisa DiPaolo
CHORAL MUSIC AWARD
- Kelly Barber
- Brooke Dobossy
- Erin Eckert
- Melanie Fernandes
- Ian Hersh
- Zachariah Leffler
- Pratheek Mangini
- Crystal Uminski
- Sapier Weinglass
BRHS OUTSTANDING SOLOIST AWARD
- Victoria Franco
NATIONAL SCHOOL ORCHESTRA AWARD
- Daniel Ye
ORCHESTRA AWARD
- Michelle Bone
- Karen Bu
- Beverly Chen
- Ashley Jasko
- Vyshnavi Karra
- Michelle Li
- Angela Ning
- Peter Xu
THE CONNIE TARANTINO MUSIC MEMORIAL AWARD
- Michael Duan
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN WORLD LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
Excellence in Chinese
- Ariella Yosafat
Excellence in French
- Theresa O'Shea
Excellence in German
- Andreas Savva
Excellence in Italian
- Celeste Cirillo-Penn
Excellence in Latin
- Daniel Ye
Excellence in Spanish
- Michelle Ma
STEUBEN SOCIETY AWARD
- Kathleen Tung
F. KIRBY MAPLES MEMORIAL AWARD
- Kaitlin O'Rourke
ALAN D. MITTLEMAN MEMORIAL AWARD
- Jonathan Lu
JOHN HENNINGER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR GERMAN
- Joseph Avenoso
JOHN HENNINGER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR WORLD LANGUAGES
- Grace Shih
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