Youth Volunteer of the Year Award

Jackson Sirbaugh
Youth Volunteer of the Year

Jackson Sirbaugh is a senior at John Handley High School. He plans to attend either Virginia Tech or the University of Virginia next year and study communications. He is the president of the Interact Club which has over 200 members, president of the Drama Club, a student coach for the Varsity Speech and Debate Team, vice president of the Alumni Association of the Hugh O’Brian Youth Virginia Leadership Seminar, and serves as the media specialist for multiple organizations. He has won a number of awards and currently holds the second-place record at Handley for number of debate points achieved during his high school career. Over his four years in Interact Club, he has completed almost 800 hours of community service at the local, national and international levels. His favorite events have been the Martin Luther King Jr Service Project with United Way, United Way’s Youth Day of Caring, the Apple Harvest Arts and Crafts festival with the Rotary Club of Winchester, the Breakfast with Santa fundraiser for Healthy Families, and family events at WPS elementary schools.