East Haven Rotary Club Honors Their Latest Students Of The Month

EAST HAVEN, CT — Recently, the East Haven Rotary Club honored their Student of the Month recipients for November and December of the 2023-2024 academic year.

The first recipient is the November Student of the Month, Aedan Conners.

Connors has been a member of the Boys Swimming, Boys Tennis and Bulldog Swimming, out of YALE for seven years. He's a member of Future Business Leaders of America; Math League; National Honor Society; 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 December Student of the Month is Dominic Hood.

Hood studied karate for five years and has been a part of the Science Club since 2020. He is planning to apply to UCONN as well as Southern Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Central Connecticut State University, and would like to study botany and genetics.

Each month the Rotary recognizes a student from East Haven High School's junior class. The club makes these presentations at school Superintendent Erica Forti’s monthly, District Wide Students of the Month Assembly, which takes place the last Friday of the month in the school's Media Center.

The East Haven Rotary Club presents each honoree with a certificate, a Rotary commemorative 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.