South Key Club Stalwart to Receive Distinguished Award | Toms River Regional School District

Riddhi Jariwala represented Toms River High School South

April 11, 2025- Senior Riddhi Jariwala represented High School South at the New Jersey Key Club District Educational Conference held April 3-5.

Riddhi has been an active member of Key Club since her freshman year in 2021. As a junior she served as South's club secretary, and was elected as a NJ Key Club district board member/lieutenant governor, an esteemed position given to only a handful of kids in New Jersey.

Over the past year, Riddhi has worked toward involving more students in the program by introducing Toms River, Manchester, Central Regional, Southern Regional, and Donovan Catholic High School Key Clubs to district events, service, leadership, and educational conferences such as the one held last weekend.

Riddhi has worked towards involving students photo

Riddhi Jariwala and her family at the awards luncheon this past weekend.

At this most recent conference, Riddhi was a speaker for a workshop titled "Leveraging Your Leadership Personality," during which she encouraged students to discover their leadership and personality style, and use it to their advantage to market themselves as young professionals. She even recruited to the event Christine Girtain, the 2023 NJ State Teacher of the Year, who presented a workshop of her own called "Sharpening Your Perceptions," urging students to discover how implicit bias shapes perceptions and decisions to foster inclusive and equitable environments.

When she wasn't presenting workshops, Riddhi helped to run a state-wide service project that included a park cleanup and decorating seashells to send to a recovery center in New Jersey.

Such leadership actions haven't gone unnoticed. New Jersey Key Club presented Riddhi with an award for her service as lieutenant governor. Additionally, it was revealed she will be receiving the esteemed Robert F. Lucas Outstanding Lieutenant Governor Award, to be formally presented to her this summer at the Key Club International Convention in Orlando, Florida.

Way to go, Riddhi!