Hope Beyer stopped by Gateway Toyota in Toms River Tuesday to collect $1000 as this year’s recipient of the WOBM/Gateway Toyota Student of the Week scholarship. The recent graduate of MATES (Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science) was randomly selected from 38 weekly Student of the Week honorees to receive the scholarship with $500 coming from 92.7 WOBM/Townsquare Media and $500 from Gateway Toyota.

Hope was valedictorian of her graduating class at MATES and also a standout runner at her home school Brick Memorial. She will be attending Bucknell University where she plans to major in Computer Science/Engineering while also running cross country and track.

Gateway Toyota has been the sponsor of the Student of the Week program since its inception during the 1996 school year and will return in the fall. Each Monday the radio station honors a student from one of the 19 high schools in Ocean County with an on air tribute and framed certificated.

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