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Miami Palmetto High School rising senior Sydney Lambert won the Tulane Book Award at Palmetto’s end-of-the-year awards ceremony. The Tulane Book Award is given for academic achievement and general attitude in school and out of school.
Lambert is president of the Class of 2025.
“As president of my class I’m charged with energizing the class with school spirit along with planning class events throughout the year,” she says.
She’s the Editor-in-Chief of the yearbook.
“As editor in chief, I’m in charge of keeping the production of the school yearbook organized as well as coming up with creative designs and leading a strong team of editors in order to create a successful book.”
Her extracurriculars include being a member of the National Honor Society, Rho Kappa, and a History Bowl member. She plays on the Badminton team and serves as a peer educator for the Health Information Project at Palmetto.
Outside of school Lambert manages the social media accounts for the Pinecrest City Music Project, the student run non-profit program that works with elementary and middle school children, teaching them music and putting on Arts Fest each spring.
“I create content on our social media accounts to recruit volunteers and promote our events,” she says.
An active member of Temple Judea, Lambert is instrumental in leading a program called Fill the Fridges that aims to address food impoverished areas of the community.
“Community refrigerators, located in food desserts, managed by local businesses and decorated by local artists, are discreetly integrated into neighborhoods. They are known to those in need but not obvious enough to attract vandalism.
Families at Temple Judea sign up to fill the refrigerators, making meals at home and delivering them to a fridge operated by Buddy System MIA. Fridges are located in underserved communities such as Coconut Grove, Florida City, Little Havana and Little Haiti.
“I helped launch the program by creating the operations and process for families to sign up and participate. I manage the sign-ups and coordinate the families as well as manage our social media presence.”
Lambert also coordinates temple wide programs to fill the fridges.
“We aim to provide 50 meals per visit,” she says. “Families make bags of sandwiches with a fruit, water, and dessert. Some families have prepared full pasta meals and cookies.”
Lambert says their goal is to fill one refrigerator fully each week.
She joined the initiative because she believes this is an impactful way to be involved in wider community service in Miami.
Lambert is also involved as a cooking specialist at Temple Judea’s religious school, teaching Jewish culture and tradition through food.
“We prepare holiday recipes,” she says. “We’ve made kugel, Challah, hamentashen, and latkes. It’s fun.”
Lambert is also involved with the Camp Jenny program. Jewish teens plan and fundraise the sleep away camp for underprivileged children in Atlanta who show academic achievement throughout the year and are rewarded with Camp Jenny.
She’s been a part of the program every year of high school and this year she was a unit head in charge of fourth and fifth graders.
“We create a weekend of sleepaway camp where the kids can be kids and just have fun,” she says.
Lambert also serves as the president of the student-run Tutoring for Tomorrow non-profit.
“I intend to continue strengthening our program,” she says. “We recently started doing tutoring work at Palmetto Elementary for grades four and five. I want to keep our quality program and help it expand a little.”
She’s thinking about majoring in either business or psychology in college.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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