MOCO Teacher Of The Year, From Germantown, Awarded New Car

GERMANTOWN, MD — A Germantown middle school math teacher was given a new car as a prize for winning Montgomery County Public Schools teacher of the year. The Fitzergald Auto Mall in Rockville donated the Hyundai to Joseph Bostic Jr., this year's winner.

Bostic teaches at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, and said in a MCPS video that he hasn't had a car for the last year. Bostic said receiving the car would be a moment he cherished forever.

"I'm very grateful, and it's a blessed opportunity to be Montgomery County teacher of the year, Bostic said a video.

Justin Harbold, from the Auto Mall, said the dealer was showing their appreciation for Bostic, as the teacher of the year.

"Fitzgerald has been doing this for several years and I think it'll be something we continue to do for a very long time," he said of the auto dealer's gift.

Bostic was awarded teacher of the year in a ceremony in April. He talked in his acceptable speech about when he took a risk six years ago, making a switch from working full-time as an electrical engineer to becoming a teacher in the district.

“In life, we get what we prepare for, not what we want,” said Boctic during his acceptance speech. "We are not what happened to us, but we are what we choose to become. I hope tonight my story inspires someone and I promise to give my all as teacher of the year.”