Princeton teacher named N..J. middle school advisor of the year by a national technology student association

Matthew Halfacre, a design and engineering teacher at Princeton Middle School, was recently named the New Jersey Middle School “Advisor of the Year” by the Technology Student Association.

The Technology Student Association is a national organization of students competing against each other in STEM-related areas. Princeton Middle School brought 40 students to the New Jersey State Technology Student Association conference this year. Halfacre serves as one of the advisors for the Princeton Middle School Technology Student Association club.

“The amazing work that the students complete each year and the hard work from my co-advisor Randy Casey, makes the experience of being an advisor very rewarding,” Halfacre said. “Our PMS students completed amazing work on the competitions that they were competing in.”

In April, PMS students won multiple awards at the event:

1st Place in Microcontroller Design: Yochin Chang
3rd Place in Children’s Stories: Milla Petrecca
3rd Place in Construction Challenge: Katy Burns, Julian Bird, and Ethan Robinson
2nd Place in Website Design: Amelia Huang, Aryahi Pimple, Jasmine Shah, Elena Shen and Fei-Fei Wang
2nd Place in Mechanical Engineering: Temu De Los Santos, Fransisco Vozone, and Daniel Wong
2nd Place in Biotechnology: Angela Cao, Amelia Huang, and Fei-Fei Wang