(Princeton,
NJ—March 11, 2017) High Tech High School students Cara Rosner of Hoboken, Kearny
resident Camille Romano, and Eleanore Woodruff of Weehawken have received the
2017 Japanese Language and Culture Study Award, sponsored by the New Jersey
Association of Teachers of Japanese (NJATJ), accepted at Princeton University, announced
Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech.
The
award recognizes students in New Jersey for their hard work and achievement in
learning Japanese language and culture. This
year, 47 recipients from 18 high schools and universities have been honored
with the award. Also, the event coincided
with the sixth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated
Fukushima.
“I’m
very grateful to have had this experience and am extremely proud of all that I
have achieved,” says Rosner, award recipient.
The
award ceremony, which began with greetings from Yoko Fukuda, President of NJATJ,
featured two guest speakers, Tomofumi Horiki (Consul, Japan Information Center
of Consulate General of Japan in NYC) and Dr. David Greer (Coordinator of world
Languages NJ Department of Education), who congratulated the award recipients and
praised their hard work. They also rang
the “kane,” a dish-shaped bell from Japan, in remembrance of those lost in the Fukushima disaster.
Each
award recipient made a short speech on the benefits of learning Japanese.
