CLARKSTON, Ga.—Georgia State University Perimeter College graduation candidate Sydnie Cobb is just 18, but she’s already earned national leadership and service accolades.
She was named a Turner 21st Century Leader for her Girl Scouts project to raise more than $7,000 to purchase feminine hygiene products for young Malawi girls—a project that partnered with CARE to deliver the products on an ongoing basis. She received the National WWII Museum Billy Michal Student Leadership Award for volunteerism and leadership and also a Turner Voices Youth Innovation Leadership Award.
Cobb is a student in the DeKalb Early College Academy (DECA) program at Georgia State’s Clarkston Campus — a dual enrollment program allowing students to simultaneously complete their junior and senior year of high school and their first two years of college.
Cobb says she thrived in the program, found her passion studying political science and history and joined the college’s History and Politics Club.
“I want to study the (political) trends of the 1950s and ‘60s, because I think those trends are still relevant to today,” she said.
She also worked for Georgia State’s student newspaper, The Signal, where she is a content editor.
A World War II history buff, Cobb’s research in her 10th grade AP World History course led her to visit Washington, D.C., and Normandy, France, as part of the Sacrifice for Freedom Albert H. Small Student and Teacher Institute. This summer, she’ll join other national winners of the Michal award in New Orleans June 7-8.
A 4.0 student, Cobb has been accepted to Harvard University.