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.
This year, 22 Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri (GSEM) received their Gold Awards at the annual Reflections ceremony, which took place at Maritz, Inc. in Fenton on June 2.
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.
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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).
Below is an excerpt from a local Girl Scout about her Gold Award project:
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Meghan Shrewsbury
For Meghan’s Gold Award project, she created the Lindbergh Community Resource Guide for the ELL Families of Crestwood Elementary School to help immigrant families.
She met with the ELL staff, the Crestwood mayor’s office and the International Institute to determine the issues facing immigrant families and what needs her guide would address.
Meghan then recruited a team to help research and create the guide. She provided copies for the families of all 58 ELL students at the school.