The group of students from Hudson Memorial School were so busy talking, they almost missed it: their names being called over a loudspeaker, followed by thousands of hands applauding.
Even when they realized that their school had been named, it was hard to believe.
“We were all really shocked,” said student Katherine Towle, 13. “We were just thinking there had been some kind of mistake.”
But there was no mistake: Hudson Memorial School’s Ambassadors of Hope, a student-driven anti-bullying program, was named a winner of the 2012 Stand Up awards, one of only three winners in a pool of more than 150 school nominees.
The awards were given out to groups in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island that have done work to end bullying at their schools. The students from Hudson Memorial received the honor at a daylong rally against bullying in Lowell, Mass, which featured various speakers who talked about their experiences with bullying.
“The entire club just went crazy,” said Ambassadors of Hope member Rachel Berson, 14. “It was a good feeling to win something like that, and know that we’ve helped kids with bullying.”
The Ambassadors of Hope program started at Alvirne High School a few years ago.![]()
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