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IN YOUR HONOR GIRL SCOUT GOLD AWARD CEREMONY May 19, 2019 GIRL SCOUT GOLD AWARD THE GIRL SCOUT GIRL SCOUT PROMISE AND LAW The Girl Scout Gold Award expresses a girl’s special GOLD AWARD commitment to herself, her community, her world, and the future. To be eligible to earn the Girl Scout The Girl Scout Promise and Law are CEREMONY Gold Award, a girl must be a registered Girl Scout shared by every member of Girl Senior or Ambassador. For the 2018-2019 school Scouting. By pledging to exemplify year, 150 Girl Scouts from Northeast Texas earned the Girl Scout Gold Award. the Girl Scout Promise and Law, each Girl Scout is committed to Processional of 2018-2019 Gold Award Girl Scouts It takes a minimum of 80 hours of intensive work for making the world a better place. a girl to complete the prerequisites for the award, Flag Ceremony develop a plan, and complete the project. The award focuses on the interests and personal leadership Girl Scout Promise GSNETX Honor Guard journey of each girl. The project fulfills a need within a girl’s community (whether local or global), creates On my honor, I will try Girl Scout Promise and Law change, and has the potential to be sustainable. This to serve God and my country is more than a good service project. It encompasses to help people at all times, organizational, leadership, and networking skills. and to live by the Girl Scout Law. Welcome and Remarks Kit Addleman, Chair, GSNETX Board of Directors Girls who earn the Girl Scout Gold Award display more positive life outcomes than non-Girl Scout Video alumnae. These include positive sense of self, life Girl Scout Law satisfaction, leadership, life success, community service, and civic engagement. Other findings from I will do my best to be Presentation of Awards the report include the following: honest and fair, Ms. Addleman friendly and helpful, • Gold Award Girl Scouts have had more considerate and caring, Debbie Roling, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer leadership experiences. courageous and strong, and Amanda Duquette, Chief Marketing and Membership Officer • Gold Award Girl Scouts feel they have had responsible for what I say and do, Ashley Crowe, Chief Program Officer success in their lives because of the unique and to experiences they had in Girl Scouts. respect myself and others, Presentation of the Betty Richardson Girl Scout • Over 90% of Gold Award Girl Scouts attributed respect authority, Gold Award Scholarship their success in life to Girl Scouts. They also use resources wisely, Ms. Addleman said that they could not have had access to the same experiences anywhere else. make the world a better place, and be a sister to every Girl Scout. Closing Remarks * The Power of the Girl Scout Gold Award: Excellence in Leadership and Ms. Crowe Life, Girl Scout Research Institute 2 3 2018-2019 RECIPIENTS PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Morgan Andrulis Landry Fowler Rachel McCarty Chloe Schraeder Morgan Andrulis Emily Balderson Adaeze Atumah Kacie Frederick Téa McCormack Abbey Sharp STEM Education for Youth For the Love of Dance Meghan Bailey Katarina Freudenthal Catherine Meenan Sophia Sircar Girl Scout Troop 2871. Morgan developed Girl Scout Troop 973. Emily took her passion interactive and hands-on STEM education for dance and shared it with the girls of Emily Balderson Mary Katherine Futrell Sarah Merchant Madison Smith activities for at-risk younger children who Delay Dance Team. Recognizing that not Kinza Barrister Shivani Ganesh Samantha Merritt Lauren Smith-Morris normally aren’t exposed to STEM until middle all girls can afford dance lessons and the Rachel Bates Marina Garza Julia Miller Sophia Sonawalla or high school. She wanted to inspire youth necessary shoes, bags and costumes to engage in STEM and recognize the possible careers that needed to participate, Emily spoke to community Nina Stewart Ashley Bauer Varsha George Sophia Miller the STEM fields offer. She and her volunteers organized and members and other dancers to solicit donations. She and Hannah Bauer Jocelyn Gillis Abigail Milton Rebecca Stokes conducted two science activity days for the children at the her volunteers collected, sorted and delivered all of the donations. She then choreographed and held a dance clinic Macy Bell Sophie Gilmour Mary Elizabeth Mocek Holly Stone Holy Trinity Learning Center and Mary Immaculate School. During these activity days, the students made hovercrafts, for the Delay Dance Team. Emily’s local dance studio and Rebecca Bender Jutzi Julia Griffin JaQualia Morris Aidan Stuart lava lamps, Styrofoam airplanes, and straw rockets. She drill team will be continuing this relationship with the dance Huda Bhatti Erin Halligan Mahnoor Muhammad Anna Katharine Sullivan made tutorial videos explaining how to make the various team going forward. Emily graduated from Marcus High activities and posted them to YouTube to enable people to School in 2018. Brooke Bianco Erin Harper Meghan Mulkey Angelina Syler replicate her projects. Morgan will graduate from Ursuline Meredith Black Melissa Hartweg Gabriella Mungo Victoria Taylor Academy of Dallas in 2019. Kinza Barrister Abigail Blasingame Jiarong Joyce He Menaka Naidu Genevieve Terrell Building for a Better Day Addison Blevins Hana Hendi Fatema Neemuchwala Tamia Thompson Adaeze Atumah Girl Scout Troop 6435. Kinza collaborated Beautify the Bay Elizabeth Brannon Amy Hermann Carley Nelson Stephanie Tonjes with a local charter school to build 60 Girl Scout Troop 8828. Adaeze created cubbies for the sixth grade students. Due to Madeleine Brown Kelly Huang Sarah Newman Alina Valli awareness in her community about the a lack of funding, the students had no place Zoe Brown Emily Huie Ruth Nichols Cassie Vestal benefits of keeping local parks liter free. She to store their educational materials. She and planned and organized park clean up days her volunteers raised funds and then constructed 4 sets Kaytlin Burton Sarah Jackson Emily Niemeyer Aveline H. Vongkaseum once a month for over a year in the Garland of 15 cubbies each for the students, giving them a way to Bridget Bush Neha Jayarajan Lauren Nobel Amanda Walker area. She and her volunteers collected trash and aquatic store their books, backpacks and other items. The cubbies Rebecca Carroll Emma Jeacock Gauri Nukala Anna Walker debris to protect the park grounds and recreational waters created more space and organization in the classroom to making outdoor activities more attractive. She also completed promote a better learning environment. The cubbies will be Dominique Castanheira Chloe Johnson Callie Nunan Ayron Walker volleyball court renovations at the park to encourage more maintained by the school and can be moved as classroom Sarah Cawthon Morgan Jolley Kate Ohman Bianca Weimer people to stay outside, play volleyball, and enjoy nature. An sizes shift or the school changes location. Kinza will graduate from Great Hearts Irving in 2021. Vennela Challagondla Tahirah Jones Madeline Osborne Jada White environmental impact club that she formed at her school will begin in the fall of 2019. The club will continue to schedule Mickaela Cook Ruthie Keyes Roshni Patel Sarah Womble park cleanups bi-monthly and manage the volunteers. Adaeze Rachel Bates Victoria Coolidge Sarah Khoja Sahair Patel Madeline Woods will graduate from North Garland High School in 2019. Saint Catherine’s Bailey Coyle Olivia King Caroline Podvin Katie Wright Community Garden Meghan Bailey Kathryn Leigh Cronan Faith Knoff Madeline Polimerou Ashlyn Wynne Girl Scout Juliette. Rachel researched and Care and Comfort then designed a garden area for Saint Riya Danait Lauren Knoff Serenity Poole Elizabeth Wynne Girl Scout Troop 8869. Meghan’s project Catherine’s Church. The area selected had Kyra Daroona Elizabeth Kokal Ashley Porter Katherine Xiong focused on creating awareness about been neglected, so she and her volunteers retuned it to Sydney DeWolf Ashritha Kota Mary Julienne Ragasajo Alyson Youngers premature birth and the needs of those a quiet space for reflection and enjoyment on the church parents whose babies are in Neonatal property. The area was first weeded and dead bushes Jessica Krampitz Meera Rathan Riley Youngers W. Meigan Dickey Intensive Care Units. Meghan did multiple removed. Clearing the space also revealed a Statue of St. Julia Doelling Rani Kumar Erica Renfro Kaitlyn Yuan presentations in her community to explain the need for Joseph, which enhanced the area. Then the ground was Emma Eades Trinity Lathem Caroline Rich Caroline Zagielski Care and Comfort kits for the parents. Parents very often prepared with new soil and nutrients. To solve a drainage place their baby’s health over their own, facing a stressful problem, rocks were painted and positioned to avoid water Kennedy Easter Solvay Linde Regina Romero-Garza Jordan Zatorski atmosphere with no place to rest or shower. Through her build up. Once the plants were in place, Rachel taught the Sophia Falies Britney Loyd Elleigh Rutz Sophia Zimmerman education, donations of lotions, snacks, books, hygiene leaders of the youth group how to care for the garden to items and local restaurant coupons were obtained and then maintain its new look. Rachel graduated from Creekview Lindsay Jade Feinstein Sonali Malik Hailey Santa Ana placed into Care and Comfort kits she and her volunteers High School in 2018. Brianna Flores Anjali Massand Christine Schlehuber assembled. Children’s Hospital of Dallas will continue the program using Meghan’s website and instructions. Meghan will graduate from Flower Mound High School in 2019. 4 5 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Ashley Bauer Rebecca Bender Jutzi Meredith Black Elizabeth Brannon Safety in the Outdoors Taylor Elementary School Jump for Joy! Beanies for Babies Girl Scout Troop 9345. Ashley used her love Pilot Garden Tower Project – Girl Scout Troop 93. Meredith collaborated Girl Scout Troop 1100. Elizabeth created a of nature to create a program to educate “Bountiful Burleson” with the Jubilee Park Community Center to program to donate hats to premature babies elementary school students on safety in the Girl Scout Juliette.