Greater Los Angeles Girl Scout Earns Prestigious Gold Award

Press release from Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles:

Sept. 27, 2021

Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles (GSGLA) is celebrating the 2021 class of Gold Award Girl Scouts: 230 teen world-changers in Greater Los Angeles who invested over 18,400 hours creating lasting impact on issues important to them.

The Gold Award is the highest achievement a Girl Scout can earn, available to girls in high school who create sustainable change on a community or world issue, from environmental sustainability to homelessness. Gold Award Girl Scouts address the root cause of a problem, plan and implement innovative solutions to drive change, and lead a team of people to success.

As they take action to transform their world, Gold Award Girl Scouts gain tangible skills and prove they are the leaders our community and world need.

This year, Gold Award Girl Scout Giovanna from Long Beach was awarded a national scholarship from Girl Scouts of the USA thanks to sponsorship from Arconic Foundation and Kappa Delta Foundation. Giovanna’s Gold Award project and book “A Kid's Guide to Radiation Therapy” addresses the lack of age-appropriate, educational resources on the topic of radiation therapy for pediatric patients and their families in both English and Spanish. While writing her book, Giovanna was able to obtain medically accurate information from radiation therapists and Certified Child Life Specialists at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach. Giovanna shared while working on her Gold Award that she “learned that when I want something, I do not stop working towards it until I get it. My passion behind my project has made me more confident in myself and seeing what I have accomplished has furthered my tenacity. Ultimately, I learned that I am capable of doing amazing things when I have a passion for it and an intention to help other people.”

This press release was produced by Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles. The views expressed here are the author's own.