The Sidney Central School District held its annual Rider of the Year ceremony at the school’s transportation center on Thursday afternoon.
The ceremony honors some of the district’s top student riders.
The Outstanding Rider Program selects top riders each month, as well as the year-end awards. Students are chosen by their respective drivers and monitors, who work together to make the selections.
A student must have been selected as one of the monthly winners to be eligible for the year-end award.
Some of the guidelines to earn the monthly award include following bus rules, showing improvement as a rider, or being a positive example on the bus. At the end of the year, the driver selects one of his or her monthly winners to be the Rider of the Year on that bus.
Students were honored during the ceremony, where drivers take the time to say a few words to recognize each of the students honored.
The students honored were as follows (student, followed by driver in parentheses): John Fink (Leanne Walters), Lucas Carroll (AnnMarie Thomson), Emily Hardy (Benny Savino), Zach Wilson (Jim Button), Marissa Beckel (Kris DeRoche), Gina Turner (Cathy Bethel), Misty Moore (Tina Miller), James Biddy (Tina Campbell), Baily Anderson (Paula Cole), Ethan Li (Bill Vandermeulen), Seth Ruggiero (Carl Scarduzio), Cooper Harvey (Sean Brigham), Lily Campbell (Anne Gordon-Muller), and Leighanna Curtis (Tracy Russell).