Sidney grew up in Pittsburgh and founded Connecting Champions as a 19-year-old in memory of his friend Lauren. He graduated with a degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and was named a top 100 student entrepreneur in the nation by Stanford University in 2013. In 2021, Sidney gave a TED talk: “How one question can forever change the life of a child with cancer.” He was a plenary speaker at the Global Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Congress and a recipient of the Bridge Award by the Hospital Educators and Academic Liaisons Association. His research on the unmet needs of young people with cancer was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal, Continuity in Education. In his free time, he likes standing in the rain, climbing rocks, and playing with spreadsheets.
“One day in high school, my psychology teacher gave us a challenge: whoever memorized the most digits of Pi (the mathematical number) in one day would win an actual pie from the teacher! I really wanted that pie, so I went home and memorized as many numbers as I possibly could. In class the following day I remembered 101 digits!
…my teacher forgot the pie.”
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