In 2011, the National Education Association Foundation awarded Svitak with their Award for Outstanding Service to Public Education. The Huffington Post included her on their "18 under 18 Most Amazing Young People of the Year" list of 2012. In her junior year of high school, Svitak was named a Redmond Rotary Club Student of the Month. Her "Girls' State of the Union" video, submitted to a Women's Media Center contest, took first place; subsequently, she spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. In 2013, Svitak was named a Three Dot Dash Global Teen Leader by the New York City-based We Are Family Foundation for her work organizing TEDxRedmond and raising awareness for the United Nations World Food Programme. As a Global Teen Leader, she participated in a week-long leadership summit in New York City in March 2013.
