Hillsborough Students Host SOUPer Bowl Food Drive

HILLSBOROUGH, NJ — Auten Road Intermediate School students held the 7th Annual SOUP-er Bowl Collection to feed those in need.

The collection was done by the school’s Team 5G (Diane Lyons’s and Kerry MacDonald’s homerooms) and Team 5H (Donna Biddulph’s and Elise Newton’s homerooms) to see who could collect the most cans of food.

Due to the COVID19 pandemic, the competition looked very different this year. About 50 percent of the students participate in a hybrid model where they are in-person at school twice a week, while the other half learns completely virtually from home.

To accommodate this into the collection, cans were not only collected in class, but also through contact-free drop boxes placed outside the main entrance of the school.

Team 5G&H's families donated 491 food items for Hillsborough Food Pantry.

"The ARIS Soup-er Bowl victors were Team 5G Chiefs, but truly all the students were winners by embracing this life lesson of giving back to their community. Way to go 5G & 5H students and families!" said Biddulph, Lyons, MacDonald, and Newton.

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