{"id":224080,"date":"2026-04-08T23:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224080\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:15:14","slug":"hillsborough-celebrates-standout-jrotc-cadets-names-cadet-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224080\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough Celebrates Standout JROTC Cadets, Names Cadet Of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS) announced its JROTC Cadet of the Year on the evening of March 26 at the University of South Florida. The district announced the top 10 cadets, along with the overall winner at the year-end awards program.\u202fC\/Lt Col Vidyarth Sathya from Middleton High School took home the top honors for Cadet of the Year. <\/p>\n

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HCPS has 28 Junior Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps (JROTC) programs and over 5,000 cadets this school year. Currently, there are 11 Army JROTC programs, nine Navy programs, seven Air Force programs and one Marine Corps program. Each cadet that was nominated from the programs went through a rigorous board selection process to be considered for the top awards. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThe competition for Cadet of the Year is highly competitive, making this recognition a significant accomplishment,\u201d said Van Ayres, superintendent of schools. \u201cCongratulations to each of these outstanding cadets on being named among the very best \u2014 your hard work and dedication truly set you apart.\u201d <\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s winners are: <\/p>\n

Top winner: C\/Lt Col Vidyarth Sathya from Middleton High School.
\nC\/LTC\u202fMarielis Pena from Brandon High School.
\nC\/Col Charlotte Belloso from\u202fDurant High School.
\nC\/LTC Isabelle Rivera\u202ffrom Newsome High School.
\nC\/CDR Andrew Papp\u202ffrom Riverview High School.<\/p>\n

For more information about the JROTC programs at HCPS, visit\u202fwww.hillsboroughschools.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS) announced its JROTC Cadet of the Year on the evening of March 26…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-224080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}