Enfield Girl Scout Receives Gold Award

ENFIELD, CT - A Girl Scout from Enfield recently took home gold for her community-focused project that helped her earn a Gold Award.

Sara Banach noticed that there weren’t enough opportunities for middle school-aged girls to learn more about coding and prepare for coding programs in high school. Sara created and implemented coding lesson plans at her local middle school. Sara’s program is an introduction to computer science that is simple and easy with an aim to introduce girls to the field and bridge the gender gap in coding and STEM. Sara found that her project helped girls get more excited to code and made them feel confident in the subject. Sara’s curriculum will continue to be used at Women in STEM events across the state and be promoted to schools for future classroom use. Sara will attend Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall to study software engineering. Sara plans to become a software developer.

The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest, most prestigious award that Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors can earn. In order to earn the Gold Award, The Girl Scouts of America states that a Scout must do the following:

1. Choose an issue: Use your values and skills to identify a community issue you care about.
2. Investigate: Research everything you can about the issue.
3. Get help: Invite others to support and take action with you.
4. Create a plan: Create a project plant that achieves sustainable and measurable impact*
5. Present your plan and get feedback: Sum up your project plan for your Girl Scout Council
6. Take action: Take the lead to carry out your plan.
7. Educate and inspire: Share what you have experienced with others.

Click here to see the full list of Gold Award recipients.

Photo courtesy of Girl Scouts of Connecticut