The student-body president of Santa Fe High School will meet with the president of the United States this March.
Sydney Honeycutt, 17, was selected by U.S. Senate Youth Program to be one of two student delegates from Florida and one of 100 students nationwide to spend the first week of March in the District of Columbia and meet the president, a supreme court justice and multiple U.S. senators.
“I had no idea that I was going to be able to have this opportunity, so I was shocked,” Honeycutt said.
Honeycutt said although she wasn’t eligible to vote in November, she was happy when Trump won, and she would’ve voted for him if she were old enough.
“I’m just excited to introduce myself, to just say hello,” she said. “Not many people can say they met the president.”
Last year, Nii Soja Torto, a Duke University freshman and graduate of Eastside High School, was selected to be one of Florida’s delegates.
“The program itself is really rooted in exposing us to public service,” the 18-year-old said. “I would honestly call it a transformative experience.”
Torto said if he could give Honeycutt any advice for the upcoming experience, it would be to keep a detailed journal.
“I really just advise her to take it all in, and even though it’s going by so fast, to take it slow and really reflect by writing journal entries about everything she did that day,” he said.
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