Palmer Trinity has TWO Silver Knight Award Winners

 

As a key member of Palmer’s STEEEM Club (Science, Technology, Engineering, Environment, Entrepreneurship and Math), Christopher focused on winning the Growing Beyond Earth Makers Competition, a project between Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and NASA to boost food production for long periods of space travel. The team created an aeroponic system – GAIA (Growing Apparatus in Astro-environment) – which was one of five high school projects that won the first phase of the competition. Christopher used his computer science expertise to help the team win the second phase of the competition, and now NASA is developing the project to be used by astronauts in the International Space Station. Christopher is a winner of the Xerox Award for academic excellence in computer science.



⁠ In elementary school, Sydney got involved with KISS (Kids Interacting Sharing Shirts), a coalition of student volunteers that collects and upcycles gently used polo shirts and rebrands them with the Miami-Dade Public Schools logo for students who can’t afford new or clean shirts. She eventually took over the project and has distributed more than 10,000 shirts to students in need. She is president of her school’s chapter of Mu Alpha Theta, the math honor society. Under her leadership, she has organized math tutoring and math activities so students can develop a love of math. She also is a member of Twenty Little Working Girls, student volunteers who assist with service projects throughout Miami-Dade. And she earned the George Eastman Young Leaders Award for her work with KISS and her academic standing.