November’s Student of the Month, Madison Hynoski, is a senior from Clinton Township Middle School. She takes her schoolwork very seriously as she always challenges herself by taking the hardest classes and striving for the highest grades. “Failure was never an option for me. I push myself to do my best all the time. I work really hard in school. I receive good grades, and I try to do my best to participate in class to show my teachers that I really do care and want to succeed.”
Becoming Student of the Month was definitely a rewarding experience for Hynoski. “I feel really good about it. It excites me, because it shows that all my hard work has paid off, and it’s great to know that my teachers see it, too. It’s great recognition, and it humbles me as well.”
As a senior, Hynoski has taken multiple Advanced Placement (AP) courses, and several honors and College Prep (CP) classes in the past four years. “My hardest class was definitely AP Biology last year. It was extremely challenging, and I had to study all the time, but I loved my teacher, Mrs. (Theresa) Flynn, and I learned more than I ever learned in any other class there,” she said.
Hynoski has one older sister who is eight years older than her. She not only envies her sister, Marissa, but her parents as well. “My parents have expectations of me. Even when I think I can’t do something, my mom is always right there to tell me that she knows I can.”
As for accomplishments, Hynoski is most proud of “being in the Academic Achievement Society which means I have maintained a 3.5 grade point average through my first three years being in school. I challenge myself in my courses. I work very hard, and I’m in all AP and Honors classes. So maintaining a 3.5 grade point average all three years; that is what I am most proud of.”
In addition, Hynoski shows enthusiasm not only for her schoolwork, but also for her extracurricular activities. When she is not studying for a hard test, she is in the pool either improving her own swimming, or she is helping other kids learn how to swim. Hynoski loves “being a part of the varsity swim team at North, and helping special needs kids in swimming when [she] can.” Some of the swimming strokes she specializes in are the butterfly and the freestyle, and she takes tremendous pride in her favorite sport and her classes.
In the future, Hynoski plans on going to college and majoring in elementary special education. “I’ve always wanted to be a teacher. I also have had the opportunity to be a job coach here at school so I get to work with the special education students here. They are awesome. They just absorb so much information, and it’s really made me want to pursue special education,” she said. Her dedication in helping others drives her to be a better person.