The Youth Volunteer of the Year award is presented to an outstanding high school student who has demonstrated a strong commitment to helping others and who serves as an example to their peers.
Youth Volunteer of the Year for 2020
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.
Past recipients include:
2015 Brooke Souders, Millbrook High School
2014 Callie Clayton, James Wood High School
2013 Emily Woznak, James Wood High School
2012 Eliza Urtz, Handley High School
2011 Presley Parkes, Millbrook High School
2010 Jordan Orndoff, Millbrook High School
2009 Sullivan Parkes, Millbrook High School
2008 Lyndsey Funkhouser, Strasburg High School
2007 Beth Dickey, Clarke County High School
2006 Bethany Hott, James Wood High School
2005 Jessica Crosen, James Wood High School
2004 Megan Morton, Millbrook High School
2003 Krystal Omps, James Wood High School
2002 Jennifer Staples, Clarke County High School
2001 Jeanette Reynolds, Central High School