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Introducing...our first Ivy Girl award recipient: Sydney Glass!

Sydney Glass is 14 years-old, and is a 9th grader at Vista Heights Middle School in Saratoga Springs, Utah. She is a 4.0 student, serves on the Student Council, is president of the National Junior Honor Society, dances on her school's Dance Company, and parti

 

cipates in her school's plays. She is also Miss Utah County's Outstanding Teen (part of the Miss America Organization). She won the Teens in Action Award at the state pageant for outstanding service on her platform: The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) ~ Turning Type One into Type None.

Sydney was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) when she was three years-old. She is extremely passionate about educating, advocating, and raising awareness through a facebook page she started called The Glass Sneakers. Sydney is a Youth Ambassador for JDRF, and the Youth Chair for the JDRF Utah County Leadership Committee. She has spoken at, and volunteered at many JDRF events, and was awarded the V1P Award for excellence in fundraising ~ raising over $5,000 for JDRF over the summer. Sydney received personal Proclamations from both her Mayor and the Governor of Utah for T1D Awareness. She personally met with both of her State Senators and Congresswoman to gain their support on a Medicare Act benefiting elderly diabetic patients. Sydney is also a candidate to go to Washington DC this summer as part of the JDRF Children's Congress to speak with members of Congress about the importance of continued T1D funding for research towards a cure.

Sydney loves to sing, dance, hang out with friends, and is incredibly independent. She pays for her own cell phone service, braces, clothing, and other "wants" with money she earns from babysitting. Sydney plans to become a Pediatric Dr of Endocrinology in the future and work with children battling her same illness ~ Type 1 Diabetes.

You will be able to find an article about Sydney and her passion for raising T1D awareness in the upcoming April, 2017 issue of the worldwide, faith-based magazine, The New Era.