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Elyssa Sykes Bidwell
  • Communication
  • Class of 2014
  • Wappingers Falls, NY

McDaniel College senior Elyssa Sykes Bidwell of Wappingers Falls received a Duke of Edinburgh silver award

2014 May 8

Elyssa Sykes Bidwell of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., was among more than 30 McDaniel College students who received Duke of Edinburgh awards at a ceremony at the college on May 7. Sykes Bidwell is a senior at McDaniel and earned a silver award .

The Duke of Edinburgh silver and bronze awards are given to those students who completed a four-step self-development program dedicated to achievement in community service, physical fitness, special skills and adventurous journey.

McDaniel is one of the first colleges in Maryland to embrace this program, founded in 1956 by Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.