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22 Girl Scout Gold Award winners recognized at Reflections Ceremony
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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Madeline Nathe
Madeline connected with Karen House, a shelter for women and children, to meet the shelter’s needs. Madeline organized a group of people to clean up a space, build picnic tables and flower boxes and she hosted a cook-off to raise awareness for Karing for Karen House, her Girl Scout Gold Award project.
She created a blog that showed her project’s progress and she wanted to educate people about what her team tried to accomplish. She encountered a few setbacks, but the experience taught her how to be a resourceful problem-solver.