The Coalition for Healthy Communities honored the winners of the "Be Smart About Medicine" contest.
Jane Anderson-Schmitt with her mother, Reidun Anderson, and father, Fred Schmitt, at the Be Smart About Medicine Awards Dinner.MIDDLESEX COUNTY -- Nine Middlesex County students were named winners in the Coalition for Healthy Communities' annual "Be Smart About Medicine" Creative Expression Contest to raise awareness about drug abuse.
Each year, students in grades 6 to 8 are invited to submit an essay, a poem or a painting to create awareness about the misuse of prescription and over-the-counter medicines.
Winners were named in each of the three grades. The first place winners in each grade received a $100 gift card; second-place winners received a $50 gift card; and the third-place winners, $25.
This year's sixth-grader winners are, Heidi So of Hammerskjold Middle School, first place; Melani Arias, Lincoln Middle School, Dunellen, second; and Kavya Kadavaderi, Hammerskjold Middle School, East Brunswick, third. For seventh-grade, Minal Patel of Sayreville Middle School, first place; Ami Modha, Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Edison, second; and Nicole Rosas Bendrell, Perth Amboy Catholic School, third. Jane Anderson-Schmitt of Wardlaw Hartridge School in Edison earned first place for eighth-graders; Arianna Aviles, Carteret Middle School, second; and Araly Langomas of Carteret Middle School, third.
The winners were honored at the sixth annual Be Smart About Medicine Awards Dinner held April 13 at the Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
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