{"id":91473,"date":"2019-12-02T22:28:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T22:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/telluride-student-earns-congressional-recognition-from-tipton\/"},"modified":"2019-12-02T22:28:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T22:28:30","slug":"telluride-student-earns-congressional-recognition-from-tipton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/telluride-student-earns-congressional-recognition-from-tipton\/","title":{"rendered":"Telluride student earns congressional recognition from Tipton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=122c7fbb-7055-4028-a7ec-d13ef4240a74&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" alt=\"Republican Rep. Scott Tipton presents two Congressional Awards to Soleil Gaylord in his Durango on Nov. 26.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Republican Rep. Scott Tipton presents two Congressional Awards to Soleil Gaylord in his Durango on Nov. 26.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of the Office of Rep. Scott Tipton<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Congressional Award is Congress\u2019 nonpartisan, noncompetitive, voluntary award program for young Americans between the ages of 13 and 24.<\/p>\n<p>Braving Tuesday\u2019s snow, Telluride native and Dartmouth College sophomore Soleil Gaylord and her family visited Republican Rep. Scott Tipton\u2019s Durango office. Once there, Tipton awarded Gaylord two Congressional Awards. A silver medal for community public service and a bronze for personal goal setting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was a neat way to outline my goals and be able to achieve them,\u201d Gaylord said. \u201cAnd being awarded through the government is a really neat recognition, very special recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was the third time Tipton was able to give out these awards in person. He said this a great program through Congress that \u201cshows and encourages public service.\u201d Applicants challenge themselves in four areas: voluntary public service, personal development, physical fitness and expedition\/exploration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have students that are willing to be able to take up that challenge, to be able to meet those goals and receive these medals,\u201d Tipton said. \u201cI think it\u2019s a very admirable thing you see out of the quality of people that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Congressional Awards program, 51 medals and certificates have been awarded to young Americans in Colorado this year.<\/p>\n<p>Gaylord first heard of the program as a high school junior. That\u2019s when she set out her goals. She volunteered at her local school greenhouse, working with students K-12 to grow and harvest vegetables which were later brought to the school cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p>But Gaylord, who ran up her first mountain when she was 5 years old, is not settling for silver. She said she\u2019d like to achieve the Congressional Award Gold Medal for public service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaylord and family visit Durango office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-91473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91473"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=91473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}