The Girl Scout Gold Award is a national award, a personal challenge and the highest award that a Girl Scout Senior or Ambassador may choose to pursue.
Earning The Girl Scout Gold Award requires a suggested 80 hours of planning and implementing a challenging, large-scale project that is innovative, engages others and has a lasting impact on its targeted community with an emphasis on sustainability.
Since 1916, the Girl Scout Gold Award has represented excellence and leadership for girls everywhere. Earning the Girl Scout Gold Award puts winners among an exceptional group of women who have used their knowledge and leadership skills to make a difference in the world (less than one percent of all Girl Scouts earn the Girl Scout Gold Award).
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Below are excerpts from local Girl Scouts about their Gold Award projects:
Courtney Chan
Courtney’s Gold Award project related to the nation’s rising obesity rates. In the wake of the federal “Let’s Move!” campaign, Courtney decided to launch her own local version. She worked with her school district, Rockwood, to create nutrition labels in the school cafeterias.
The labels included allergy stickers to give students the resources necessary to buy healthy lunches and she added the allergen information to Nutrikids, the district’s nutritional database. To complete the project, she printed, laminated, cut and stickered labels to use in the lunch lines.
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Katie, along with Rachel Broom, held a week-long Multiplication Facts Camp at St. Clare of Assisi to help students learn or improve their multiplication skills.
Katie taught two classes of seven students daily. She was also in charge of marketing and advertising the camp to make students and parents aware of it and to increase participation.
The students were tested daily to track their progress and each child went home with a folder containing a published workbook and multiplication sheets so they could practice on their own.
Alex Lambrecht
Alex is passionate about helping women and children who are in poverty, so she created Dress a Girl Around the World as her Girl Scout Gold Award project.
She made 100 people aware of the issues, she and her team sewed together 102 dresses and shipped them to nations such as Uganda and Haiti.
Alex connected with local fabric and craft stores. She made samples of the dresses, followed by step-by-step direction packages to give to area sewing groups and clubs.