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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. Rebecca collaborated with run summer programming. Her emphasis at the Parkland Hospital Nursery. Using a outdoors. Her goal was to encourage students Taylor Elementary to pilot garden towers. was on healthy lifestyles, especially wide variety of volunteers from around to enjoy and appreciate nature in a safe manner. She and Garden towers are completely self-contained, compact, through physical activity. Over 100 kids during the summer her community, she taught them how to knit baby hats her volunteers created presentations and videos highlighting conserve water and light and are non-GMO and pesticide participated in a variety of games she and her volunteers using looms and crocheting. She explained the benefits plant, animal, and insect knowledge as well as fire safety free. The garden towers sit under artificial light, which are created which focused on the concept of exercise. The that babies gain by wearing hats when they are first born. and prevention. Students also learned what to do if they energy efficient and are fertilized using composting table Center had a goal to implement more activities around She posted updates on a Facebook page to help spread were to get lost and how to make a bird feeder. The videos scraps from the cafeteria. Using this process the students exercise, so the project assisted in meeting that goal by awareness and create interest in this issue emphasizing are available on You Tube and the program materials will be grew fresh herbs and vegetables, many of which were used developing motor skills using kid yoga, relay races and that hats are needed all year round for premature babies used by St. Mark’s Catholic School each year prior to their on Food Fun Fridays as mini tasting festivals. The garden variations of tag. She also donated jump ropes, activity bean and not just during colder weather months. Elizabeth left annual outdoor trip. Ashley will graduate from John Paul II towers encouraged the students to try new foods and bags, hula hoops and Frisbees to encourage the students her remaining supplies and instructions for teens at the St. High School in 2019. develop a healthier diet, including at home. The pilot was so to stay active. The program is being continued using the Patrick Parish Refugee Outreach Program to continue her successful that next year grades 1-4 will participate and a materials that Meredith created. Meredith will graduate from program. Elizabeth graduated from Ursuline Academy of Hannah Bauer Junior Master Garden club is being implemented. Rebecca The Hockaday School in 2019. Dallas in 2018. Blanketed with Love graduated from Burleson High School in 2018. Abigail Blasingame Madeleine Brown Girl Scout Troop 8493. Hannah chose a project that would provide comfort to children who Huda Bhatti Pics for Pets Know Your Number: are dealing with very stressful life situations. ALS Class Girl Scout Troop 8515. Abigail combined her Blood Pressure Clinic Initiative She teamed up with Project Linus, a national Girl Scout Troop 2420. Huda observed the lack love of photography and animals to meet Girl Scout Troop 9409. Madeleine’s project non-profit organization that provides gifts of support for the DEAF community within the needs of the Friends of Rowlett Animal addressed the risk of high blood pressure of new, handmade blankets to children who are seriously her own Muslim community. To address this Shelter by publicizing the animals available in the African-American community. ill or traumatized. Hannah educated her volunteers and issue and the stigma surrounding being deaf, for adoption. Abby and her volunteers photographed over Hypertension is a red flag and predictor of other health her community about Project Linus and the need for the she organized and delivered an ASL event at her community 100 cats and dogs at the shelter and in foster care and issues, so understanding its importance is critical in avoiding blankets and then coordinated a team of volunteers who center. At this event, the participants learned deaf etiquette posted their pictures on the shelter’s Facebook, Instagram, chronic diseases. She and her volunteers established a made 100 fleece-tie blankets. She also created a YouTube and basic communications skills. Stereotypes and common and Twitter accounts. She provided educational information blood pressure clinic at Greenville Avenue Church to help video about her project to encourage people to make and misconceptions regarding the deaf community were also about spay and neutering and responsible pet ownership members “know their number”. In the first month of the donate blankets, as well as organized a detailed instructional addressed and debunked. After her first event, the mosque at several community and service unit events, as well as clinic, they screened and educated over 100 members, binder for future groups to continue making blankets. held its first deaf wedding. She hosted additional classes publicized her project on her school’s newspaper website. identified members whose blood pressure was elevated Hannah will graduate from Coppell High School in 2020. for both the hearing and deaf which helped to foster more She and her volunteers made toys for the shelter and and recommended they see their health care provider. The communication and acceptance. The classes have grown provided donations of props to be used with the animals for church’s health care ministry will continue the clinic monthly Macy Bell in size and will be continued, reaching out to other Muslim future photo shoots. Abigail will graduate from Plano East to help meet the needs of the congregation. Madeleine Midlothian Youth Arts Council community members. Huda will graduate from North Texas Senior High School in 2019. will graduate from Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership Academy in 2019. School in 2019. Girl Scout Juliette. Macy realized that Addison Blevins her community lacked the resources to encourage young artists. Working with Brooke Bianco Elementary Buddy Benches Zoe Brown the Midlothian Arts Council, she and her Shelter Help Girl Scout Troop 8765. Addison collaborated Stress Less, Laugh More Week volunteers created the Midlothian Youth Arts Council, a Girl Scout Troop 581. Brooke’s project fulfilled a with Lake Dallas ISD to establish and place Girl Scout Troop 7229. Zoe organized and held non-profit organization for young artists to connect and need for educational materials for The Colony buddy benches at the 3 local elementary a Stress Less, Laugh More Week at Heritage learn from each other and show their art in the community. Animal Shelter. Brooke worked with shelter schools. Buddy benches help to create an High School to educate the student body about Through Macy’s leadership, the new offshoot, helped to employees to develop curriculum and activities inclusive and friendly environment for the students as they mental health issues. Recognizing that there inspire the young artists and also give more members of to be used when shelter employees speak at schools and promote respect, compassion, and reduce bullying behavior. is a stigma around discussing mental health, the week was the community an appreciation for art. Going forward, they other educational locations in the community. Brooke created She and her volunteers created videos that modeled how intended to teach students about ways to address issues will help in the development of the new amphitheater in materials for K-3rd grades and 4th -7th grades. Brooke and her the benches should be used, which were shared by the such as anxiety, depression, and suicide. Each day different Midlothian and the Midlothian Arts Festival to ensure their volunteers filmed a recruitment video for shelter volunteers, school counselors during guidance lessons. One elementary issues were addressed to encourage conversation and make continued involvement related to arts in the community. explaining the needs of the shelter and duties of their school has even formed a buddy patrol where students the topics less threatening. Zoe also created a Bring Change Macy will graduate from Heritage High School in 2019. volunteers. She organized a drive for donations for the shelter volunteer at recess to watch the benches to ensure they are 2 Mind Club to keep the discussion going after the week was along with providing homemade dog treats. The shelter will being used properly. The guidance counselors will use the over. The event will be continued annually with the possibility continue to use her presentations in the community and her videos each year to introduce the buddy bench concept and of expanding it to other schools in the district and beyond. video about volunteer opportunities. Brooke will graduate encourage its use. Addison will graduate from Lake Dallas Zoe will graduate from Heritage High School in 2020. from The Colony High School in 2019. High School in 2019.

6 7 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Kaytlin Burton Dominique Castanheira Mickaela Cook Kathryn Leigh Cronan Signing Story Time The Reading Nook Cinderella Closet DogGONE Cancer Girl Scout Troop 8571. Kaytlin advocated Girl Scout Troop 8537. Dominique’s project Girl Scout Troop 2322. Mickaela’s goal was Girl Scout Troop 394X. Katie’s family lost their for deaf children by creating Signing Story addressed the lack of access to books for to give more students the opportunity to beloved dog to cancer, unaware of available time in her community and educating about families living at a local shelter for victims of attend prom and banquets at her school by treatment options. In response to this, Katie necessary accommodations that the deaf domestic violence. She and her volunteers reorganizing and promoting the Cinderella decided to educate people about different community needs. Deaf children of hearing parents often built bookshelves and categorized over 1000 books by age Closet. The closet contained suitable dresses which could canine cancer treatments. She and her volunteers worked don’t communicate at home and this impacts the level group for The Family Place. The reading area will provide a be borrowed by students who might not have the financial with Veterinary Specialist of North Texas, filming dogs of education they complete. She and her volunteers held fun and relaxing place for children and parents to develop means otherwise to attend the events. She and her volunteers undergoing a variety of treatments, to create an extensive multiple events to entertain deaf children by signing story a passion for books and reading. She also established cleaned the closet, determined which dresses to keep and educational movie. She then distributed it to area clinics, books and engaging in conversation. This provided deaf The Family Place as a recipient of Barnes & Noble’s book then sorted them by color and size. Posters and an Instagram vet offices, boarding and grooming businesses, as well as children the chance to interact in their native language, donations in which the agency will receive a supply of new account then advertised the Cinderella Closet, including posted it on YouTube. Katie and her volunteers also hosted work in literacy and also teach parents some sign language. books each quarter to help support the Reading Nook. general information on borrowing and returning the dresses. a dog walk to spread awareness, providing each participant The ASL Honor Society at her school will continue this Dominique will graduate from Townview Talented and Gifted The Fashion Club will maintain the closet for annual use and with a puppy packet and informational pamphlet. Puppy program, using it to practice their own signing skills and Magnet Center in 2020. continue to accept new donations. Mickaela will graduate hammocks were also made to protect the sick dogs from advocating for the deaf. Kaytlin will graduate from Sachse from Midlothian High School in 2019. sliding off car seats while being transported for treatments. High School in 2019. Sarah Cawthon Katie will graduate from Loretta Doll Academy in 2021. Renovate, Innovate, Educate Victoria Coolidge Bridget Bush Riya Danait Girl Scout Troop 1011. Sarah worked with Serve for Christ Help the Homeless Families Bea’s Kids, an organization that provides Girl Scout Troop 1647. Victoria wanted to Making Numbers Matter Girl Scout Troop 2871. Bridget increased an educational and personal development expand the youth group at her church. To Girl Scout Troop 8993. Riya collaborated with awareness of Family Promise of Irving, an program to children from low income families. encourage more youth to join the church, the Agape Resource and Assistance Center, an organization that assists children and their She and her volunteers renovated a room that had been she and her volunteers built a volleyball organization that serves homeless and at risk families facing a homeless situation return to used for storage and turned it into a safe area for the court. Victoria promoted the new volleyball court, as well families, to provide educational mathematics self-sufficiency. She focused on improving the organizations children to study, do homework, read or be tutored. The as information about the church, service times, and other materials. She and her volunteers filmed and edited 9 presence on social media by instituting tools like scheduled room was packed with thousands of donated items that activities with over 250 flyers around her neighborhood. She videos, focusing on 4th -7th grade math topics such as posts with more frequency, how to use hashtags, and had been ignored for up to 20 years. The items were sorted, also established a game night for youth to come and play fractions, decimals, data, statistics and geometry. She also themed weekly posts. Due to her efforts, Family Promise donated, trashed or reused. Then the room was painted light volleyball. The project helped the youth bond into a tighter produced workbooks for the children to use after watching has experienced a 10% increase in followers. She made grey with white baseboards, window dressings were added group, promoting teamwork and fellowship. The youth group the videos to practice what they had learned. The materials community presentations encouraging people to get along with tables and chairs. The updated room will help the will continue to maintain the volleyball court and game night are self-guided and will help build a solid math foundation involved and donate toiletries and cleaning supplies, which children stay in school and break the cycle of poverty. Sarah going forward. Victoria will graduate from Garland Christian for future learning. Instructions on how to use the videos she and her volunteers sorted and delivered. Her social will graduate from Plano West Senior High School in 2019. Academy in 2019. and workbooks have been given to Agape to continue the media instructions will continue to grow more awareness for program going forward. Riya will graduate from The Texas the organization going forward. Bridget will graduate from Vennela Challagondla Bailey Coyle Academy of Mathematics and Science in 2019. The Highlands School in 2019. SPCA Blankets and Rope Toys S.M.A.R.T., Stress Management and Release Tools Kyra Daroona Rebecca Carroll Girl Scout Troop 8475. Vennela worked with the SPCA of McKinney to provide education Zero Waste Glow Run Coppell Veteran’s Memorial Girl Scout Troop 152. Bailey addressed for adoptive families and enrichment toys the problem of stress by researching and Girl Scout Troop 8788. Kyra created awareness Girl Scout Troop 2543. Rebecca wanted and blankets for the cats and dogs at the creating meetings for students to attend in her community about Zero Waste, the to honor the local veterans of the Coppell shelter. Families who adopt their first cat or dog will receive at her high school. Each meeting gave the students a new concept that any item can be composted or community for their sacrifice and service by pamphlets created by Vennela and her volunteers that way to learn how to manage and release their stress. She recycled resulting in a reduction of materials creating a Veteran’s Memorial. To accomplish teach children how to care for their new pet and also enjoy and her volunteers used different activities and games sent to landfill locations. Working with the City of Frisco, she this goal, she petitioned the city of Coppell explaining her some educational games. Vennela also spoke to students to illustrate options for handling the daily normal stress and her volunteers used the Glow Run to demonstrate how a vision. Once the city was onboard, she worked with them at her school about pet adoption and organized a collection triggers in life. She used various forms of social media like zero waste program works. All vendors and race participants on location and design. She and her volunteers created drive for the shelter. Her instructions on making the Twitter and Instagram to inform students of the meetings were educated about zero waste and how to sort potential awareness and raised funds to purchase a Bronze Eagle blankets and toys, as well as her pamphlets will continue and then after each meeting, videos with her stress trash generated during the race. Through those efforts less Statue and memorial plaque. After the statue and plaque to be used by the shelter. Vennela will graduate from Plano relieving tips were posted. The counselors and National than 10% of all materials ended up being landfill bound. Kyra were installed, the city decided to expand the project into East Senior High School in 2019. Honor Society leadership have been given her ‘how to’ also created a manual and a website for the city to use to a Memorial Garden where veteran’s celebrations may be manual to continue the program going forward. Bailey will continue to grow the zero waste concept at all scheduled held. The city will maintain and add to the Memorial Garden graduate from Centennial High School in 2020. events going forward. Kyra will graduate from Frisco High going forward. Rebecca graduated from New Tech High@ School in 2020. Coppell in 2018.

8 9 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Sydney DeWolf Emma Eades Lindsay Jade Feinstein Kacie Frederick Friday Nite Friends Ball Pits for the SPCA of Texas Super Happy Fun Week, Good for Ghana Girl Scout Troop 2206. Sydney partnered Girl Scout Troop 8775. Emma’s project met Art Rotation Girl Scout Juliette. Kacie partnered with with Friday Nite Friends, an organization that two critical needs for the SPCA of Texas. Girl Scout Troop 3217. Lindsay Jade designed Touch a Life, a non-profit organization that serves families with special needs children, Emma and her volunteers designed and built a and ran an art curriculum at a summer camp rescues children in Ghana from slavery offering parents a break on Friday nights, waterproof ball pit that will be used for animals for the Preston Hollow Presbyterian School. and then helps to rehabilitate them. Kacie while also giving the children a sense of independence. in need of behavioral therapy. The pit helps the animals to The camp served as a way for all participants to learn to created a pen pal club between high school students in Sydney recognized that the 14-22 age range kids had no age acclimate to noise and stimulation, thereby making them collaborate and have fun together, even though the children the DFW area and the rescued children in Ghana. Her club appropriate activities, so generally came and just watched more adoptable. Emma created a YouTube video about the came from different backgrounds and cultures. She and met every two months and exchanged written letters movies. Sydney and her volunteers researched, designed ball pit and explained its uses. The second need was to write her volunteers taught the children how to paper mache, with 37 students. The DFW students learned about the and tested crafts and games for this age level. Activities an instructional manual for the shelter’s adoption software, make tie-dye and pinch pots, paint with mod podge, do issue of child slavery, while the kids in Ghana were able to like slime art, bubble art and salt painting provided an Shelter Buddy, with an accompanying video, for adoption spin art and compete in a paper chain link competition. practice their English, improving their educational outlook. opportunity for the kids to interact and open up to each counselors to learn how to use the software. Emma left her The website she created with the curriculum and tips is Each group bonded over common interests in music, other. The bins with the activities will be maintained by the ball pit designs and manual materials with the SPCA for future available for others to replicate her program. Lindsay Jade sports, love of animals and religion. The club will continue organization and supplies replenished by a Girl Scout troop use. Emma will graduate from Parish Episcopal School in 2019. will graduate from Greenhill School in 2021. the relationship, with the Touch a Life CEO providing the as needed. Sydney graduated from Plano West Senior High connection. Kacie will graduate from Ursuline Academy of School in 2018. Kennedy Easter Brianna Flores Dallas in 2019. Connecting the Generations Picture Perfect Pets Project W. Meigan Dickey Katarina Freudenthal Girl Scout Troop 8515. Kennedy’s project Camp Thrive! Girl Scout Troop 2197. Brianna’s project Protecting the Pollinators benefited the youth and the seniors of New focused on increasing the number of Girl Scout Troop 3432. W. Meigan planned and Mount Zion Baptist Church, by building a bridge adoptions at the Mesquite Animal Shelter, Girl Scout Troop 1105. Katarina’s project implemented a camp to improve behavioral to connect the two generations together. She while also reducing the number of adopted addressed the issue of global bee decline due to issues associated with children in foster care. and her volunteers planned and delivered several events at animals being surrendered by their owners. Brianna and industrial agriculture, parasites and pathogens, She recruited and trained over 15 volunteers the church to connect seniors and youth as they talked about her volunteers built a 4’ x 6’ wooden backdrop with festive and climate change. She educated her high to run the camp for two months every Monday night during their own lives, giving advice, feeling valued, and appreciated. decorations and props. They also built a wooden stand school student council to help her collect reusable items for the summer of 2018. She developed the curricula focusing She also conducted interviews for both the youth and seniors with a colorful “Adopt” banner for the animals to use when crafts kits, which were then assembled by neighborhood on strategies for the children to use to overcome and deal asking them how to live an empowered life and sharing that posing for pictures. The shelter will use the backdrop and volunteers. She created presentation boards and hands-on with their behavioral needs. The children learned social skills knowledge in a positive way. The project culminated in a stand to photograph shelter animals up for adoption and activities like bee boxes, which she utilized at the Lucas and self-awareness of their feelings to help them cope in Grandparent’s Day, which the church Youth Ministry will run for newly adopted pets and their families. She also created Founders Day to teach over 700 people about the decline in overwhelming situations. The program will be continued annually to keep the connections going. Kennedy will graduate a pamphlet to educate people about how to choose the the bee population. The displays, bee boxes and leftover crafts each summer using the materials that she created and run from Plano East Senior High School in 2019. right pet for their family for the shelter to distribute. and instructions were donated to the Collin County Hobby by Mobberly Thrive! Family Support Ministries. W. Meigan will Brianna graduated from Poteet High School in 2018. Beekeepers Association to be used as they attend community graduate from a Home School program in 2019. Sophia Falies educational events through the DFW area. Katarina graduated A Road to a Better Mind Landry Fowler from Shelton in 2018. Julia Doelling “Hand to Hand” Girl Scout Troop 8828. Sophia’s project was Mary Katherine Futrell Art from the Heart inspired by her desire to encourage teens Volunteer Fair Project Reef Love Girl Scout Troop 8633. Julia’s project sought to discover the mental health benefits Girl Scout Troop 1. Landry’s project to alleviate stress that homeless families, of journaling. Sophia and her volunteers addressed the need for volunteers for Girl Scout Troop 2777. Mary Katherine’s especially children, face by providing a created over 205 journals that were decorated with colorful non-profit organizations in Tyler and the project addressed the impact of chemical- creative outlet in the form of art classes. designs and contained inspirational quotes, affirmations, surrounding areas. She and her volunteers planned and based sunscreen on coral reefs and reef Working with the Samaritan Inn, she and her volunteers led and community resources. The journals were distributed to organized a community event in which over 30 non-profit friendly alternatives for sun protection. These multiple art classes to encourage the children to express Richardson West Jr. High Avid students, The Counseling Place organizations participated, bringing awareness about their chemicals, particularly oxybenzone found in sunscreens, themselves using creativity, have fun, inspire optimism, and in Richardson, and the Growing Girls Strong group at Gearing individual missions, the people they serve and the benefits cause coral reef bleaching which can trigger the coral to have pride their art work. She also created awareness Up. Sophia supplemented the journals by creating a website they offer. This type of event hadn’t been held in over a reefs to die or become more vulnerable to disease. Mary about the Samaritan Inn and solicited art supply donations with guidelines, prompts, and ideas for journaling and decade and provided the non-profits with an easy way to Katherine created an educational program and website for to outfit an art closet with paint, clay, stamps, markers, included mental health resources. She also filmed a YouTube solicit new volunteers. Landry created an extensive manual youth, adults, and educators working with The National Park crayons and colored pencils. The closet will be maintained video discussing the benefits and process of journaling. on how to conduct a volunteer fair, which will be used to Services (NPS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric by the organization, using the supplies and art project Sophia will graduate from Richardson High School in 2019. repeat the event annually. Landry will graduate from Grace Administration (NOAA). Presentations were made to instructions to continue the art classes. Julia will graduate Community School in 2019. over 11,000 people nationally and in over 20 countries, from McKinney Boyd High School in 2019. internationally. At the 3rd largest coral reef, Biscayne National Park, through her efforts, permanent signs and additional information have been installed and the park has stopped selling oxybenzone containing sunscreens. Mary Katherine will graduate from Bishop Lynch High School in 2020.

10 11 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Shivani Ganesh Jocelyn Gillis Erin Halligan Jiarong Joyce He Cyberbullying Prevention Paws for a Cause Students for STEM Room Revamp: Redesigning Girl Scout Juliette. With access to social media Girl Scout Troop 8993. Jocelyn teamed up Girl Scout Troop 8998. Using her love pf the Visitation Room at and technology increasing exponentially, with Take Me Home Pet Rescue in Richardson STEM, Erin planned and delivered a 4 week My Friend’s House Shivani wanted to educate youth about to assist with community outreach education STEM camp for elementary students at her Girl Scout Troop 8475. Jiarong Joyce cyberbullying. She and her volunteers created and shelter needs. Jocelyn designed a church. Each day of the camp had 3 or 4 collaborated with City House, an agency that an educational video on cyberbullying, how to recognize it, pamphlet that describes the Junior Duck Solution Squad new activities and focused on hands-on implementation of works for children and young adults who are experiencing how to prevent it and what to do if you are experiencing it. program to educate young children about the importance of STEM concepts, including aerodynamics, simple machines, abuse, neglect or homelessness. She and her volunteers She also did multiple presentations, using her video to start spaying and neutering animals which will be used by Duck engineering and physics. Erin wanted to promote STEM redesigned the visitation room at My Friend’s House, which a discussion about the issue. The schools will continue to Team 6 volunteers. She also worked with her volunteers opportunities at a young age to encourage the students is used for family visits and counseling, to make it more use her video as a starting point for discussion and it is also to design and hand sew 50 reversible bandanas in three to consider careers in the increasingly STEM-based work welcoming, brighter and comfortable. They painted the walls available on You Tube for others to view and share. Shivani different sizes with an “Adopt Me” applique on each side. environment. She and her volunteers prepared challenging and baseboards, built book shelves, steam cleaned the will graduate from The Hockaday School in 2019. Her educational materials will be used by the shelter when activities which gave the students options to use creativity furniture, and added string artwork. The string artwork was replacements of the pamphlets, bandanas or homemade and critical thinking skills. Erin’s website contains all of her created by the children during a workshop run by Jiarong Marina Garza treats are needed. Jocelyn will graduate from Plano West activities and instructions to recreate her STEM camp. Erin Joyce. The room will be maintained by City House and a Healing Through Reading Senior High School in 2019. will graduate from JJ Pearce High School in 2019. website with information about transforming a multipurpose space is available online. Joyce will graduate from Plano Girl Scout Troop 967X. Marina collaborated Sophie Gilmour Erin Harper with PediPlace, a family-centered healthcare Senior High School in 2019. facility that serves children with limited Wonderland Take Down Type 2 Diabetes access to medical care. She and her Girl Scout Troop 3218. Sophie collaborated Girl Scout Troop 857. Erin educated people Hana Hendi volunteers created awareness about this facility and how with Nexus Recovery Center, a rehab facility on the effects and development of Type 2 Leadership Training Station people could help by donating items to promote literacy. She for recovering substance abuse users that Diabetes. Obesity is a growing problem in Girl Scout Troop 2420. Hana’s project centered was able to collect over 250 books and purchase a bench serves women and their children. She and the United States, with many new cases of on inspiring students to use their passion and pillows for the facility. This made the place less scary her volunteers installed a children’s garden and play space Type 2 Diabetes being diagnosed. Working with Christs about an issue and turn that passion into for the children as they waited for their appointments or with educational enrichments to foster their imaginations. Family Clinic, she and her volunteers created an exercise concrete projects that make a difference their family members to be treated. It also provided a way The space encouraged the children to play in the outdoors pamphlet and healthy recipes to encourage a healthier locally or globally. Hana developed two seminars that offered to encourage reading over electronic games and computers. and provided options such as sand and water tables, lettered lifestyle. She also assembled non-perishable food bags students the necessary leadership tools and skills to make Her how-to video explains how to replicate and continue rock spelling tables, ball toss and plinko boards, bamboo and her recipes for the clinic’s clients using less expensive their causes happen. She and her volunteers gave students a assisting the facility going forward. Marina will graduate from wind chimes, a tic tac toe garden table, and a fairy house. The foods to illustrate that a diet can be healthy without being foundation based on how to structure a project, including goal Marcus High School in 2019. garden and play space will be maintained by the facility and costly. Her community presentations added awareness for setting, maintaining motivation by celebrating intermittent will be used to help the children improve their reading, spelling the clinic, bringing in more clients and potential volunteers. successes, and finding necessary financial support to make Varsha George and science skills, while encouraging their creativity. Sophie Church members will sustain the project using her their cause come to fruition. Hana’s website will continue A Trip Down Memory Lane will graduate from The Hockaday School in 2019. materials and instructions. Erin will graduate from Highland her project, offering students support through a forum and Park High School in 2020. Girl Scout Troop 3240. Varsha’s project general information on how to tackle an issue. Hana will Julia Griffin graduate from Brighter Horizons Academy in 2019. addressed memory loss in older adults. Melissa Hartweg She collaborated with the Elmcroft Senior Little Free Libraries Living Center to design a memory book Girl Scout Troop 400. Julia wanted to Improving Animal Living Spaces Amy Hermann for its residents. She and her volunteers interviewed over encourage people to enjoy the outdoors Girl Scout Troop 1823. Melissa recognized Suicide and Depression Prevention 20 residents to create mini-bios with family history and and more specially the Farmers Branch that life for animals in the Rowlett Animal Girl Scout Troop 1000. Amy’s project focused interests of each one which were then compiled into a book. Parks. Growing up, her Girl Scout troop had Services shelter is very stressful. To on the issues of suicide and depression, The interview process served as a way for the residents to volunteered with the park in the Rose and Community enhance their chances of adoption and especially in teens. Using community learn more about each other and aided in generating more Garden areas. She and her volunteers designed and built to make the adoption process more inviting, she and her presentations, she and her volunteers social interaction at the facility. The book will be maintained Little Free Libraries near the Rose Garden and Cabell volunteers improved the décor of the shelter by creating addressed the societal stigma of this topic by speaking by the facility, using the template with questions and Elementary School. The libraries give park goers the more comfortable kennels and adding more ways for the openly and teaching the facts, while highlighting all of the processes that Varsha fashioned. Varsha will graduate from opportunity to relax in nature while fostering a love for animals to play. Activity and enrichment ramps for dogs, “myths” and why they are wrong. Her audiences gained Coppell High School in 2020. reading. The park will maintain the libraries using additional fleece blankets, raised cat beds, and toys were created. awareness about the causes, symptoms, and effects of books Julia donated as well as ensure that the book She also designed two brochures with information on how depression. They gained skills to learn how to effectively structures are monitored and used appropriately. Julia will to help new pets adjust to their new family and home. The deal with someone who might be struggling, including how graduate from Parish Episcopal High School in 2019. brochures will be reprinted by the shelter as needed. Melissa medical help was one possible solution. Her website and graduated from Lakeview Centennial High School in 2018. public service announcements will encourage people to continue to advocate for accurate and expansive mental health knowledge going forward. Amy will graduate from Garland High School in 2019.

12 13 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Kelly Huang Neha Jayarajan Morgan Jolley Sarah Khoja Leaves of all Seasons Seeds for the South Paws of Love GO Wild Girl Scout Troop 897. Kelly collaborated Girl Scout Troop 3834. Neha addressed “food Girl Scout Troop 9368. Morgan worked Girl Scout Troop 6435. Sarah collaborated with My Possibilities, an organization that deserts” in Texas, communities without with Cody’s Friends Dog Rescue to provide with Grapevine Parks and Recreation to offers vocational education for adults with access to fresh food due to economic or support for the dogs awaiting adoption and to expand their GO Wild Mystery Box program. intellectual and developmental disabilities. environmental reasons. To solve the problem, educate the community about the Rescue’s This program is a creative way to learn about She and her volunteers created educational materials she researched and engineered a simple, aqua cone that mission. Morgan and her volunteers made 100 fleece-tie wildlife in the area by examining the contents of mystery related to the environment and the enjoyment of nature delivers water directly to the roots of plants while minimizing blankets and 50 toys for the dogs housed at the shelter and boxes using touch as the primary stimulus. Sarah and her for the organization to use in their classes. Leaves from evaporation, made out of recyclable and environmentally in foster care homes. They also baked 200 dog treats to volunteers built and filled 8 additional boxes with items various trees and different seasons were collected, dried friendly materials. The cones provide fresh produce and also disperse at adoption events. Morgan designed a brochure for such as snake skin sheds, bones and cicada shells. They and placed in a book for the students to use. Information a therapeutic hobby. She and her volunteers then educated a distribution at adoption events that educates people on how also produced curriculum, available on her website, to about each leaf, its specific properties and characteristics North McKinney community on how to plant and care for the to care for their new dogs and associated costs of owning go with the boxes, after testing it with two different age were added on each page. The book has been placed in cones, providing vegetables and herbs to grow. Cottonwood a dog. She also created a YouTube video about her project groups. The boxes and curriculum will be maintained by the the My Possibilities library for instructors and students to Creek Church, on their yearly mission trip to McAllen, Texas, and Cody’s Friends, as well as instructions to replenish the Parks and Recreation program and used to spark interest use going forward. Kelly will graduate from Richardson High will continue her project using her information video and donations as needed. Morgan will graduate from JJ Pearce in nature during field trips and events. Sarah will graduate School in 2020. cone materials. Neha will graduate from Plano East Senior High School in 2019. from Uplift North Hills Prep in 2021. High School in 2020. Emily Huie Tahirah Jones Olivia King We Support You Emma Jeacock Community Wellness Center Prayer House Garden Girl Scout Juliette. Emily created awareness First Impressions Pantry Makeover Girl Scout Troop 3199. Olivia’s church, Mary about breast cancer in her community. Girl Scout Troop 426. Emma helped transform Girl Scout Juliette. Tahirah worked with the Immaculate, recently acquired a new house She was motivated by her grandmother’s the lives of women through the power of Community Wellness Center to makeover for meetings and prayer. The surrounding experience as a breast cancer survivor, as makeup. Emma found that while many their food pantry. She and her volunteers area of the house was overgrown and well as the founder of Girl Scouts, Juliette Gordon Low, homeless shelters assisted residents in refurbished the pantry giving it a deep cleaning, sanitizing the unwelcoming. To make it more appealing, Olivia researched who died of breast cancer, to create Bracelets of Hope for dressing professionally, very few showed women how to shelves, and repainting everything in bright cheerful colors. and designed a way to make it more inviting. She and her survivors to receive at the Race for the Cure in Frisco. She apply makeup for job interviews. She and her volunteers held She also created a bi-lingual nutritional pamphlet with ways volunteers cleared the area and leveled the ground, then and her volunteers worked with several groups fashioning a workshop at the Salvation Army shelter teaching women to substitute healthy ingredients into everyday diets. She prepped and planted it with new foliage, flowers, edging the bracelets and educated the participants about the how to use makeup, how to select appropriate colors and educated her classmates on the importance of helping to feed and mulch. The garden now is a calming space for anyone signs of breast cancer and the importance of screening for how to purchase makeup in a cost effective manner. With those in need and by joining in to do an annual canned food from the church to use to pray, mediate or work on projects the disease. The Bracelets of Hope also had a message for these skills, the women will become more self-confident and plastic bag drive. The newly renovated food pantry will be in an outdoor environment. The church will maintain the each survivor to let them know people in their community and create a better first impression. A YouTube video and sustained by the church ministry and continue the volunteer garden area as needed. Olivia will graduate from John Paul were supporting them. Emily will graduate from Coppell tip booklet she designed will allow more women to generate relationship that Tahirah began with her school. Tahirah will II High School in 2020. High School in 2020. good first impressions going forward. Emma will graduate graduate from Liberty High School in 2019. from Rick Reedy High School in 2019. Faith Knoff Sarah Jackson Ruthie Keyes Children’s Advocacy Center Library Chloe Johnson R.O.C.K. Recycles The Essential Cookbook for Girl Scout Troop 8973. Faith collaborated Girl Scout Troop 8973. Sarah took her Cozy Comfort Blankets the Volunteer Chef with the new Rockwall Children’s Advocacy passion for protecting the environment Girl Scout Troop 62. Chloe worked with Girl Scout Troop 45. Ruthie collaborated with Center, an agency that works with victims of to the after school R.O.C.K. program at the Ronald McDonald House, a non-profit the Ronald McDonald House to give volunteers child abuse. Using her own love of reading, Rockwall ISD. She and her volunteers created organization that keeps families together and who prepare the residents’ meals more she built a new library with approximately 500 books for presentations to teach over 1000 students and adults ‘how- near the medical care they need, to fulfill options. She met with a dietician from UT Southwestern and children to read while at the center or to take home. She to’ recycle following the local community recycling rules. a request for fleece blankets. Each family staying there a chef from a local restaurant to craft recipes that address created awareness in her community about the new facility Emphasis was placed on ways to reduce and reuse in the receives a blanket to provide comfort to their child. Chloe dietary restrictions such as lactose intolerance. She then and asked for donations of books to create the library. The recycling process. She also created a matching game to and her volunteers from her school, the National Charity created a cookbook that educated on different dietary issues books will give the children a way to escape their personal reinforce what the students had learned and empowered League, and the United Methodist Women of Grove Church common at the facility and produced recipes that excluded situations, even if only for a short time, while improving them to stand up for issues that they care about. Her made 100 no-sew blankets for the facility. She taught them those ingredients. Ruthie tested the recipes with volunteers their literacy. Half Price Books will be providing additional video, suggested activities, and presentation materials will how to make the blankets and educated her volunteers and brought them to the Ronald McDonald House for approval. books as needed to keep the library supplied. Faith will be used by the after school program annually. Sarah will about the facility and needs of the Ronald McDonald House. Volunteers will use these new recipes going forward and the graduate from Rockwall High School in 2020. graduate from Rockwall High School in 2019. Chloe also designed a website to teach people how to make cookbook is posted on the local facility’s site and has been the blankets and explained the facility’s mission. Chloe will shared with the national organization. Ruthie will graduate graduate from The Hockaday School in 2020. from Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 2021.

14 15 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Lauren Knoff Jessica Krampitz Solvay Linde Anjali Massand Designing a Better Future Beyond the Food Pantry STEAM Punk A Wish for the WISH Clinic Girl Scout Troop 8973. Lauren wanted to Girl Scout Troop 592. Jessica worked with Girl Scout Troop 8362. Solvay wanted to Girl Scout Troop 592. Anjali chose to enhance increase awareness of Computer Aided Metrocrest Services, an agency that assists encourage more young children to get the waiting area at Parkland Hospital that Design (CAD) and how it can be practically those coping with crisis situations in their involved in STEAM fields (science, technology, serves the Women and Infants Specialty applied in fields such as engineering design lives. Recognizing after she volunteered at engineering, arts, and math). To accomplish Health (WISH) division. Since the hospital and 3d printing. Being a Robotics team member for 4 the agency that most people think of the facility as primarily this goal, she hosted a week-long summer camp at the serves primarily adults, the waiting areas are not especially years, she realized that incoming freshmen especially a food bank, Jessica set out to dispel this myth. Toilet Dallas Boys and Girls Club with a diverse group of lower kid friendly. She and her volunteers created and tested didn’t have the skill set to use CAD in their robotics paper, feminine hygiene products, toothpaste, and laundry elementary school children. Each camp day was themed activities for children to help pass the time. Reusable classes and competitions. To solve this problem, she and detergent are examples of items Metrocrest provides around a letter in STEAM where she and her volunteers activity sheets, ABC blocks, counting beads, and mazes her volunteers, developed a series of video tutorials on besides food. She held a kickoff event, produced social taught all about that field and created unique hands-on were produced for the younger children and word searches, how to use Solidworks, a CAD program, that are easy to media and organized collection drives in multiple places to projects to excite the children about futures in STEAM. All Chutes and Ladders and Spot the Difference for the older. understand and suitable for all age levels. Her Robotics create awareness for these needs. On her website, she listed the materials from the camp were donated to the center, as She then delivered and set them up in storage boxes in team will use them to train new members going forward detailed steps on how to plan a donation drive and how well as access to her website for reference materials and the waiting area. She also created a website with detailed and have also posted them on their team’s website and to get involved with Metrocrest as a volunteer. Jessica will resources to continue the camp annually. Solvay graduated instructions and resources for others to replicate the You Tube page. Lauren will graduate from Rockwall High graduate from Coppell High School in 2019. from The Talented and Gifted Magnet in 2018. waiting room activities. Anjali will graduate from Coppell School in 2019. High School in 2019. Rani Kumar Britney Loyd Elizabeth Kokal Using Passion to cope with Adversity Weekend STEM Workshop for Rachel McCarty Ark Adventures Children’s Play Yard Girl Scout Troop 3150. Rani used her own Elementary Students, grades 3-5 Longview Symphonic Carnival Girl Scout Troop 606. Elizabeth collaborated experiences of childhood grief to help Girl Scout Troop 592. Britney developed and Girl Scout Troop 2851. Rachel partnered with with the Ark Adventures Preschool to turn children from 7 to 13 learn how to cope with conducted STEM workshops for students the Longview Symphony to address her an outgrown garden into a play yard for the stressful situations. Encouraging the youth in in 3rd- 5th grades for the Valley Ranch, community’s lack of age diversity interested children. She and her volunteers restored her workshops to use their passions to overcome adversity, Coppell and Irving areas. Recognizing the importance of in classical music and specifically, the the area by removing fencing and weeds, adding planters she used science, her passion, to educate the youth. For early exposure to STEM for the future of our country’s Longview Symphony. Rachel and her volunteers organized with flowers to encourage more butterflies, and preparing example, Rani created a baking soda volcano to demonstrate workforce, Britney prepared 4 different workshops covering a STEM based, hands-on, interactive event for over 200 the soil for new sod. Four outdoor activity boards were how bottling up emotions can cause you to explode in rage topics such as human body systems, energy and electricity adults and children to educate about classical music. The designed and installed, which included a chalkboard, a or frustration. The skills she and her volunteers taught and aerodynamic engineering. Each workshop had event stations explained how to conduct, read notes and ball run, a sensory board and a LEGO Duplo block board. explained the importance of handling emotions during exercises, experiments, projects and a unit test to confirm rhythms, and provided a brief history of classical music. The activity boards provided fine motor skills, tactile stressful times. Rani shared her workshop materials with comprehension of the topic. She also created an on-line There was also an instrument petting zoo where children awareness, and gross motor skills for the preschool Journey of Hope, who will use her information to aid youth version of the workshops to make the curriculum available could touch and play the various instruments and learn students. The activity boards will also be incorporated dealing with grief. Rani will graduate from Plano West Senior to more students. The workshops were so successful, that how different sounds are engineered. Rachel donated all into the school’s curriculum and the play yard will be High School in 2019. the Irving Art of Science organization will continue to use of her supplies and a “how to” guide to the Symphony so maintained by the staff. Elizabeth will graduate from Fairhill and maintain them going forward. Britney will graduate from that the event can be repeated. Rachel will graduate from School in 2019. Trinity Lathem Coppell High School in 2019. Longview High School in 2019. Crandall Community Greenhouse Ashritha Kota Téa McCormack Girl Scout Troop 8900. To increase the Sonali Malik Care for Kicks availability of fresh vegetables in her Learn to Read STEM Kits for Harrington Elementary Girl Scout Troop 3856. Ashritha collaborated community, Trinity and her volunteers built Girl Scout Troop 485. Sonali’s project helped Girl Scout Troop 739. Téa collaborated with the Greater Lewisville Area Soccer a greenhouse in collaboration with Crandall preschool children at the Phoenix Academy with Harrington Elementary to bring STEM Association (GLASA) to educate about United Methodist Church. The local food banks didn’t create the foundation to foster a love for activities to its kindergarten students. contact sports injuries. Recognizing that have access to fresh produce, so the Crandall Community reading and learning. To accomplish this, she Recognizing that STEM resources were soccer is the 3rd highest sport with contact injuries, she Greenhouse was born to solve this problem. The greenhouse and her volunteers built a library at the school. She solicited limited at the school and not usually offered to kindergarten spoke to coaches, parents and players about ways to was built with lightweight aluminum and solar panels donations of books and then sorted them into categories. students, Téa and her volunteers created STEM kits for each avoid injuries, how to identify specific injuries and how to make maintenance easier. A schedule for care and Shelves and furniture for the teachers’ lounge were assembled classroom. The kits contained many hands-on options, such to treat them. She set up a table at GLASA tournaments watering of the plants was developed and the community and delivered. The new library gives the preschool children as building an igloo out of toothpicks and marshmallows, and handed out first aid kits with general information and has stepped forward to fill the need. Trinity also educated the opportunity to read both at school and check out books an oil spill challenge, and a blizzard in a bag. The students supplies to treat injuries. Her information is available on people about the importance of a healthy diet and the role to take home, improving their reading, writing and vocabulary now participate in STEM stations weekly, instead of monthly, a website she created and is also linked to the GLASA’s fresh produce plays. The greenhouse provides a sense of skills. The Phoenix Academy will maintain the new library exposing them to STEM fields at a much earlier age. The kits webpage to continue the education. Ashritha graduated community that will continue as residents care for the and a Girl Scout troop will replenish books as needed. Sonali will be maintained and replenished as needed by the school from The STEM Academy in 2018. produce. Trinity will graduate from Crandall School in 2019. graduated from the Greenhill School in 2018. going forward. Téa will graduate from Plano East Senior High School in 2019.

16 17 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Catherine Meenan Julia Miller Elizabeth Mocek Meghan Mulkey Farmer’s Branch Historical Park Pawject Ruffway Bedroom Sponsorship Tone the Future Walkway Girl Scout Troop 4900. Julia’s project focused Girl Scout Troop 519. Elizabeth collaborated Girl Scout Troop 747. Meghan focused her Girl Scout Troop 485. Catherine restored on creating awareness related to non- with In My Shoes, an organization that provides project on childhood obesity and heart health. a 70 yard pathway at the Farmer’s Branch shelter adoption groups for dogs. Julia and a safe welcoming community for pregnant Working with the Boys and Girls Club of Plano, Historical Park. She and her volunteers her volunteers used a dog fashion show women who are homeless or at risk of she planned and implemented a summer leveled the ground, resurfaced the path, cleaned the to present dogs from the non-shelter groups that were homelessness. She and her volunteers renovated a bedroom camp program for the children. The program highlighted the surrounding area, and added large rocks to the edging of seeking their forever homes. The show also gave potential at the facility that will be used by full time counseling staff American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 for children, the path. The park has over 100,000 visitors annually who adopters a chance to meet the dogs and learn more about who teach the women job and parenting skills. The room was teaching them how to monitor their weight and vital signs, are now able to navigate the park safely with this updated the local non-shelter adoption groups. Julia’s project raised cleaned, freshly painted, and then decorated with bedding, staying physically active, and eating healthy. She used fun path. The maintenance crew at the park will monitor the awareness for two organizations, PAWS and Purple Flower, towels, lamps, curtains and wall décor. The organization will activities like art, word search puzzles, balloon tosses, and path and maintain it as needed. Catherine will graduate and those dogs walked the runway wearing costumes and maintain the room and others can learn how to replicate this line dancing to encourage lifestyle changes. She donated from Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 2019. were pictured on social media sites. All of Julia’s instruction project and more about the In My Shoes organization through sports equipment to keep the children active and built a materials and social media links can be used by the two two You Tube videos she created. Elizabeth will graduate from website with all her information to be used as a reference Sarah Merchant organizations or any other non-shelter organization to stage Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 2019. guide to maintain the program. Meghan will graduate from Hats for Hope an event going forward. Julia will graduate from Founders Plano East Senior High School in 2019. Classical Academy in 2021. JaQualia Morris Girl Scout Troop 6439. Sarah taught knitting JaQualia’s Basketball Camp Gabriella Mungo classes at Bea’s Kids, to create knitted hats Sophia Miller Girl Scout Troop 8609. JaQualia wanted to gain Boxing Up The Senses and head wraps for patients at Scottish Rite Cody’s Friends Dog Rescue Hospital and families at Bea’s Kids. She and more community support for women’s sports Girl Scout Troop 2543. Gabriella’s project her volunteers worked with youth of varying ages to explain Girl Scout Troop 2085. Sophia partnered with in general, and basketball in particular. To concentrated on creating activities to help the different knitting stitches, how to follow a pattern, and Cody’s Friends Dog Rescue to increase their accomplish this goal, she and her volunteers students stay focused during class. She how to complete the hats. Not only did she teach a skill to dog adoption rate. She and her volunteers planned and ran a basketball camp for the Marshall Junior and her volunteers created boxes that the use in the future but showed others how to give back to created over 170 fleece-tie blankets to provide High School girls. She even managed to work around an ACL students could use during a brain break. These sensory those in their community. Her website and step-by-step comfort to the dogs in their kennels and foster homes. She injury as she rolled in a chair on the court teaching basketball items help develop motor skills as well as help students instructions, along with extra supplies left at Bea’s Kids will also wrote “bios” for 50 of the available dogs at adoption skills and confidence. Her educational PowerPoint about refocus by calming them down. The items built included continue her project. Sarah will graduate from Hebron High events and attached them to their cages. Sophia educated gender in equality in sports and highlights from the basketball hand fidgets, sensory bottles, rain sticks, marble mazes School in 2020. people about the rescue organization at adoption events and camp can be used to run additional camps. The basketball and weighted blankets. Gabriella also demonstrated the during her “stress-relief puppies” event at her high school. seniors at the school will continue the camp with the use of the various items to the students and educators. Samantha Merritt About 80 students played with the puppies to make exam assistance of the basketball coaches going forward. JaQualia Each grade level received the boxes, which will serve about Cornerstone Resale week less stressful. Sophia provided the rescue group with will graduate from Marshall High School in 2019. 500 students. The counselor at the school will maintain the a “how to” guide to create more blankets and a template to boxes using a website Gabriella completed with detailed Girl Scout Troop 394X. Samantha worked write more “bios” for the dogs. Sophia will graduate from Mahnoor Muhammad instructions. Gabriella graduated from Coppell High School with the Cornerstone Assistance Network. Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 2019. Dresses for Africa in 2018. The organization was planning to merge two locations into one Cornerstone Resale Abigail Milton Girl Scout Troop 913. Mahnoor worked with Menaka Naidu Little Dresses for Africa, an organization that shop and wanted to utilize space and display more items. Women in STEM Hope and Healing Library Samantha and her volunteers designed and made displays recognizes the importance of self-esteem for clothing, accessories and toys that included “Animal Girl Scout Troop 3733. Abigail teamed up and hope for girls in Africa. Mahnoor created Girl Scout Troop 3215. Seeing a need through Zoos”, a structure that displays stuffed animals, balls with her school district and local library to awareness about this organization and its mission to solicit her experience as a teen board member and other items in a contained area. Samantha also put educate and inspire young girls about STEM donations of over 200 pillowcases that were used to construct for Community Partners of Dallas, Menaka together a Pinterest binder for outfits using clothing from and possible STEM careers. All 12 elementary the dresses. She and her volunteers then designed and sought to help the children and caseworkers the store. The binder had sample outfits, color charts and an schools in Lewisville ISD received STEM books and kits she sewed over 100 pillowcase dresses that were donated to the with the challenges they face on a daily basis. She and her accessory section. She trained volunteers on how to use this created to promote STEM with hands-on fun activities. She organization to be shipped to Africa. Each dress had a note volunteers created a library at the Rainbow Room for the information. The store will continue to use her innovations and her volunteers designed and installed a STEM mural at attached to it encouraging the girls to feel comfortable in their caseworkers to have easy access to appropriate books for when it moves to its new location. Samantha will graduate LISD’s first STEM school. She also held a Women in STEM own skin. She wrote instructions and made a video showing the children they serve. She solicited books and then sorted from Prosper High School in 2019. fair at the public library where students of all ages learned how to make the dresses, which was left with the Legacy the new and existing books by grade level and language. about various careers in STEM fields and participated in fun Senior Home to continue the project. Mahnoor will graduate The books will help to improve literacy and accessibility for experiments to demonstrate STEM options. The schools will from Plano West Senior High School in 2019. the at-risk children. Her how-to binder gives instructions continue to use the donated books and STEM kits to inspire on organizing additional books and will be used by the more STEM participation going forward. Abigail will graduate volunteers to maintain the library. Menaka will graduate from from high school in 2021. The Hockaday School in 2020.

18 19 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Fatema Neemuchwala Ruth Nichols Gauri Nukala Madeline Osborne Power of the Brain Bio-Med Book 1 Spark STEM Craft Carts Girl Scout Troop 3240. Fatema addressed Girl Scout Troop 3440. Ruth created a Girl Scout Troop 3085. Gauri’s project focused Girl Scout Troop 2206. Madeline recognized the decline in cognitive abilities due to nonprofit that uses graphic novels and on encouraging girls and minority groups that Scottish Right Hospital needed to fill age. Working with the Coppell Senior and films to provide education on various STEM to learn about STEM in a positive way. She a gap in children’s activities after business Community Center, she held multiple topics. The first graphic novel written spread designed and with her volunteers delivered hours and on Sundays. To address this, she seminars to stimulate the brain and avoid neural atrophy. awareness about Duchenne Muscular Dystropy (DMD) STEM workshops at 5 elementary schools and Boys and created Craft Carts with a variety of activities for different She and her volunteers presented 13 different activities that while promoting an interest in STEM and medicine in young Girls Clubs. The children learned STEM concepts in fun, but aged children that are available any time. She and her she designed to over 60 participants at each session. The adults. In the graphic novel the symptoms and stages of educational ways such as Bridge Building, Car Building, Tin volunteers tested the various crafts to ensure they were activities encouraged logical reasoning and abstract thinking DMD, as well as the biochemistry behind these symptoms, Foil bots, snap circuits and elephant’s toothpaste. By making age appropriate and then delivered the materials and to strengthen the frontal lobes. By filling in missing words are explained using a character with the disease. A blog and STEM activities less intimidating, she hoped they would instructions for the Craft Carts to the hospital. Siblings or using both hemispheres of the brain simultaneously this Facebook page, along with the nonprofit, will continue the consider more STEM classes or job options in the future. The and patients now have access to activities to keep them improved concentration skills. The Center will continue using educational format as Ruth and her volunteers add more Girls in STEM chapters in Dallas will sustain her project using entertained and busy. Her how-to binder and YouTube the activities and share them with other facilities nationwide graphic novels covering different topics. Ruth will graduate her instructions developed for the workshops. Gauri will video are available to replicate additional crafts or for other through the website she created. Fatema will graduate from from The Townview Science and Engineering Magnet in 2019. graduate from Plano West Senior High School in 2020. hospitals to use as a model. Madeline graduated from Plano Coppell High School in 2020. West Senior High School in 2018. Emily Niemeyer Callie Nunan Carley Nelson Under the Sea with Emily Support the PISD CORE Store Roshni Patel Best Buddies of Coppell Carley’s Covers Girl Scout Troop 289. Emily taught young Girl Scout Troop 1274. The Plano ISD CORE Girl Scout Troop 1014. Carley’s project children about the ocean and basic safety Store was opened to provide teachers with Girl Scout Troop 3244. Roshni established a stemmed from her desire to educate about practices. She wanted children to have a place to shop for classroom supplies at no Best Buddies Chapter at Coppell High School domestic abuse and to provide comfort a healthy respect for the ocean and sea cost. Callie and her volunteers focused on to provide one-to-one friendships between to victims of abuse. Carley partnered with creatures, but still be able to enjoy the ocean. Her week long ways to help solicit supplies for the CORE Store in 4 ways. students with and without intellectual and Hope’s Door New Beginning Center, an agency that works class featured a poem and different sea animals each day, She designed a PowerPoint presentation to create awareness developmental disabilities. With the school’s support with domestic abuse victims, to provide fleece blankets adding in words in American Sign Language and Spanish. about the store’s mission and needs, which will be located and many student volunteers, the club raised awareness to the families who seek shelter there. Carley and her The children did a craft and had a snack that was related on their website. She procured and built 4 new shelving and promoted inclusion throughout the school and volunteers created 100 fleece-tie blankets and attached a to the sea creatures they were studying. The lessons were units to stock supplies more efficiently. She also created community. Each pair met at least once a week to expand hand written note of cheerful encouragement to each one. multi-sensory and had a STEM focus, emphasizing how to a customizable e-flyer to be used by PISD student led the friendships. Social events, fundraisers, and community She created a brochure and a YouTube video to educate protect the ocean environment. Her how-to binder with all of organizations to help them get involved and earn volunteer awareness events promoted the new club and continued its people about domestic violence and her project. Carley also the curriculum will be used by the pre-school each year to hours. AND, she solicited enough new donations to stock the growth and mission. The chapter with two school sponsors provided the agency with an instructional manual on how to replicate the program. Emily graduated from Highland Park shelves with 100 of each the top 5 most requested items. and student officers Roshni put in place will continue to make the blankets so volunteers can replenish the supply for High School in 2018. Callie will graduate from Plano West High School in 2019. increase awareness and inclusion going forward. Roshni will the shelter as needed. Carley will graduate from Plano West graduate from Coppell High School in 2021. Senior High in 2019. Lauren Nobel Kate Ohman Spring to Read Camp Pet Adoption Fair Sahair Patel Sarah Newman Improving Education Girl Scout Troop 3700. Lauren collaborated Girl Scout Troop 1014. Kate’s project grew Volunteer Instructional Videos for with Brother Bill’s Helping Hand to improve out of her desire to educate her community Girl Scout Troop 6439. Sahair addressed the Salvation Army the reading skills of the children the agency about and encourage pet adoption. Kate and the need for a good base in elementary Girl Scout Troop 8993. Sarah worked with the serves. She and her volunteers ran a Spring her volunteers hosted a one day adoption fair education by designing and making one Salvation Army to create training videos about Break reading camp where children were paired with in Plano. She recruited three municipal shelters and three hundred activity bags for the students of different Salvation Army projects. Salvation volunteers to practice their reading and pronunciation skills. nonprofit rescue groups to attend the fair with pets available Anne Frank Elementary School in Dallas. The activity bags Army staff are constantly receiving emails and calls asking Every book they used was leveled using Scholastic Reading for adoption. Five pet care companies also participated, included laminated flashcards and math drills to improve questions about how to execute these projects. To save the guidelines and then specifically selected for each child. They including a veterinary clinic. Approximately 100 people writing, math, and literacy skills. To encourage STEM staff time and give potential volunteers a visual method also included some time for crafts to encourage creativity attended the fair and several animals were adopted. Plano education, Sahair and her volunteers performed science to learn, Sarah and her volunteers provided instructional and provide some hands-on fun. The children went home Animal Services was given her PowerPoint presentation to experiments with the students using water and cornstarch information about the three most popular projects: lunch with a new book to continue practicing what they had replicate her event and her volunteer training materials on for hands on fun and a sink or float activity that focused bags, sandwiches and the Angel tree. She also created learned. Additional books were left along with instructions adoption and care of animals. Kate will graduate from Plano on critical thinking. She made a Facebook page explaining awareness about the organization and used the videos to to continue the reading program going forward. Lauren will West Senior High School in 2019. her project, which can be used as a model to replicate it in implement the projects. The videos are used by the Salvation graduate from Highland Park High School in 2021. other schools. Sahair will graduate from Parish Episcopal Army almost daily with links on YouTube, thus freeing up School in 2020. time to work in other areas. Sarah will graduate from Plano West Senior High School in 2019.

20 21 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Caroline Podvin Ashley Porter Erica Renfro Elleigh Rutz Concussion Discussion Texas Little Cuties Rescue Keep Calm, Recycle On Mad Max Kids Run Girl Scout Troop 62. Caroline wanted to give Girl Scout Troop 9325. Ashley collaborated Girl Scout Troop 9448. Erica used her Girl Scout Troop 7457. Elleigh’s project back to Children’s Medical Center because with Texas Little Cuties Rescue in McKinney experiences as an intern for the City of addressed the lack of physical activity in as a youngster, she had been treated at for her project. She redesigned the Rescue’s Dallas to educate her community about youth today by designing and building a kids’ the facility. She chose to educate about website, photographed the pets awaiting recycling and its importance. Recognizing that mud run. She and her volunteers focused concussions and provide safety equipment to the Center. adoption, and posted their photos on the website along her community of DeSoto was minimally participating in on researching, planning, and creating the obstacles She and her volunteers gathered donations of safety with a brief description of each animal. She created recycling, she held a seminar at the “Everything Teen Expo” for the mud run that would be easy enough for younger helmets after making presentations about concussion three pamphlets for the Rescue, educating people about to teach how and what to recycle. She and her volunteers children, but challenging enough for older kids to enjoy. She protocol. The information included how to avoid a fostering dogs, caring for new shelter dogs, and shelter showed how to create DIY projects from recycled items, also made presentations in her community stressing the concussion, how to identify concussions early, recovery vs. purebred dogs. Ashley and her volunteers also made such as a tote bag made from an old t-shirt. She also importance of physical activity, how it impacts the increasing from and how to return to a normal life after the concussion. dog toys and dog treats for the organization. She created developed a website to demonstrate the techniques for obesity rates among youth, healthy eating options, and Her presentation is available online to continue creating a YouTube video and spoke to about 80 members of her DIY projects and an informational pamphlet for the library ways to avoid future cardiovascular problems. The mud run awareness on this issue. Caroline graduated from Ursuline National Charity League (NCL) chapter about the Rescue. to distribute with recycling tips. Erica graduated from The will be continued annually by the 4-H group using Elleigh’s Academy of Dallas in 2018. Ashley’s NCL chapter has adopted the Rescue as one of School of Health Professions in 2018. instructions and materials. Elleigh will graduate from North their volunteer organizations. Ashley will graduate from Lamar High School in 2021. Madeline Polimerou McKinney Boyd High School in 2019. Caroline Rich Operation Facelift: Fur-ever Homes for Felines Hailey Santa Ana Mary Julienne Ragasajo A Youth Wing Makeover Troop 2769. Caroline focused on the Rescue for the Rescued Trees of the Future Girl Scout Troop 1359. Madeline’s project overpopulation of older cats in animal Girl Scout Troop 1559. Hailey worked with the revitalized the Youth Wing at Meadows Baptist Troop 9345. After understanding the benefits shelters for her project. She partnered with Rowlett Animal Shelter to improve the care Church. The church and Plano East Senior of trees in suburban areas, Mary focused the SPCA of Texas to develop a method of their cats while waiting to be adopted. The High School (PESH) have built a relationship and the church on tree conservation through creating for showcasing older cats and increasing their adoption shelter had previously discarded their carpet offers its facilities to PESH students for meetings, clubs, awareness in her community. By partnering rates. Caroline developed an intake form to assess the covered cat trees because of the dirt and disease they testing, and free lunches every other Wednesday. Madeline with the City of Plano Sustainability and Environmental personality and specific needs of the cats and an easy to harbored. Hailey researched and designed PVC pipe cat trees and her volunteers gave the area a facelift, including all walls Education Department and the Texas A&M Agrilife Extension follow instructional guide for creating videos. Working with with removable and washable fabric for the shelter to solve being repainted, a new Prayer Wall being built, new furniture, Center, she was able to educate her community through volunteers, she created videos of over 20 cats and posted this problem. Hailey and her volunteers built several cat book shelves and artwork being added. The church will informative tree presentations at multiple events. The them on the shelter’s website. Additionally, Caroline and trees of various sizes and also made homemade cat toys. maintain the area and now has a schedule in place to keep presentations explained deforestation and its impact, as her volunteers made cat enrichment toys and gave several Hailey also gave several educational presentations about updating as needed, rather than waiting another 14 years. well as the significance of planting trees and how they can educational presentations. To expand her project, Caroline the shelter and pet adoption. She filmed an instructional Madeline also created a how-to book and website to assist bring the quality of the land and the creatures living around contacted and provided her materials to 57 shelters around YouTube video and provided the shelter with “how to” others in refurbishing rooms. Madeline will graduate from it more prosperity. Going forward, her website and how-to the country and in Canada. Caroline will graduate from The materials for building new cat trees when needed. Hailey will Plano East Senior High School in 2021. instructions can be used to spread the word on this topic. Hockaday School in 2022. graduate from Rowlett High School in 2019. Mary will graduate from Plano Senior High School in 2019. Serenity Poole Regina Romero-Garza Christine Schlehuber Rhythm Movers Meera Rathan Think Pink Start with Hello Week A Journey into Literature Girl Scout Troop 8828. Serenity’s love of music Girl Scout Troop 8567. Regina’s project Girl Scout Troop 857. Christine’s project inspired her project with Prestonwood Baptist Girl Scout Troop 156. Meera planned and focused on educating youth at her high school addressed the issue of social isolation and Church as her sponsor and African Hearts implemented lessons for ESL students at about breast cancer and the importance of how students who are ostracized for their in Uganda, Africa, as the beneficiary of her the Saturday Kids Club at the Stew Pot and early detection. She created a month long differences may turn to violence later in efforts. African Hearts is a community organization devoted First Presbyterian Church. The lessons were awareness campaign using school morning announcements, life. She and her volunteers designed a program, based on to their orphanage, where residents participate in the intended to improve the students’ language, reading and pamphlets, and adding new curriculum to the schools’ one originally created by the Sandy Hook Foundation, that Royalle Band to learn musical skills and raise money for their writing skills. Selecting interesting topics and making the health classes on how to detect breast cancer and the steps treated everyone equally, encouraging new friendships living expenses. Serenity and her volunteers educated her lessons interactive, the students learned how to effectively to follow if something is found. She and her volunteers also and inclusion. Highland Park Middle School spent the week community by giving presentations about the orphanage’s persuade someone with their words, how to improve their planned and implemented a “Pink Out” at a volleyball game learning team building through games like the human knot, musical program. They collected, cleaned, and refurbished spelling, and how to fix grammatical errors. They also to involve the whole school in the awareness campaign. inspirational sticky notes placed on lockers, and addressing 15 instruments and two music stands that were transported learned about the library and how to use various library The program was so successful that the school asked the kids sitting alone and creating new relationships in their to Africa by church members. Serenity also created an resources to improve their literacy skills. Meera’s lessons will Student Council to continue the awareness campaign on an grade. The program was so successful that the principal instrument care video for the children. The church will be used to continue the program by the organization. Meera annual basis using Regina’s materials. Regina will graduate and counselors will continue it as an annual event based on continue to collect and transport instruments. Serenity will graduated from Highland Park High School in 2018. from John Paul II High School in 2020. Christine’s materials. Christine will graduate from Highland graduate from Richardson High School in 2019. Park High School in 2020.

22 23 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Chloe Schraeder Madison Smith Nina Stewart Aidan Stuart Education and Support for Breckinridge Montessori Garden De-Stress It Renovation with Reverence the Family Place Girl Scout Troop 777. Madison’s project Girl Scout Troop 3868. Nina recognized from Girl Scout Troop 2085. Aidan preserved Girl Scout Troop 125. Chloe’s project centered on teaching the students of her own experiences that the transition into the heritage of Ursuline Academy of Dallas dovetailed with Peace Week at her school, Breckinridge Montessori School the benefits 9th grade is stressful. To support incoming by creating educational materials which targeting social issues under the umbrella of developing healthy eating habits. Madison freshmen each year, Nina and her volunteers explain the history of the school. She and her of domestic violence, bullying and mental health, and and her volunteers prepared six organic garden beds at the created over 600 stress boxes to help them adjust to volunteers also updated the Calvary Hill Cemetery where homelessness. Chloe worked with The Family Place to school. She selected a variety of fruits and vegetables and their new school environment. Each box contained the graves of the Order of Ursula Sisters are located. This provide education to all the students in her school through planted the garden beds with the students. Madison also motivational thoughts, time management suggestions, entailed cleaning all of the headstones of the sisters and handouts, activities, and a broadcast video. Chloe and her created a curriculum to teach the children about planting suicide prevention information, and counselor contacts. researching best plant options for the area. She selected volunteers handed out hundreds of “You Matter” bracelets to seeds, the life cycle of various plants, when to harvest the The boxes were promoted in students’ advisory classes Texas Sage and Knockout Rose bushes for the cemetery emphasize their message. They also coordinated a drive to produce, and how to control pests. The produce grown in the and orientation encouraging students to seek solutions to plots, which were then planted. Aidan’s digital presentation collect over 200 household items for The Family Place. Also garden will be prepared for the children’s lunches. Madison new pressures that everyone faces without feeling scared will be used annually as new students and faculty join the at their request, Chloe designed a reference spreadsheet supplied detailed instructions for the school to use to replant or embarrassed to ask for help. New boxes will be updated school, to explain the school’s beginnings and heritage. for the shelter’s staff and a resource handout for victims the garden beds annually. Madison graduated from Plano and created by the school’s counseling staff as needed Aidan will graduate from Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 2019. detailing other organizations’ services in the community. East Senior High School in 2018. using the informational materials that Nina provided. Nina Chloe will graduate from Creekview High School in 2019. will graduate from Flower Mound High School in 2021. Anna Katharine Sullivan Lauren Smith-Morris Honoring Heroes Rebecca Stokes Abbey Sharp Bringing Recycling to Girl Scout Troop 857. Anna Katharine’s project Jewels of Light Woodrow Wilson High School Food Bank Farm was inspired by a personal family experience. Girl Scout Troop 1. Abbey’s project focused Girl Scout Juliette. Lauren designed and Girl Scout Troop 8790. Rebecca collaborated She designed her project to honor and thank on creating awareness about sex trafficking implemented a recycling program at her high with the HOPE Food Bank to ensure that first responders and military personnel for and providing a sense of normalcy to girls school to lower the environmental impact and community food needs were being met. their service by partnering with the Highland Park School who are at risk or have been involved in sex- footprint in her community. Working with the permission Often times there is a food shortage, leaving District to initiate a letter writing campaign for elementary trafficking. Working with Refuge of Light, an organization that of the school administration, she and her volunteers the food bank with no way to serve those in need. Rebecca school students. She provided teachers with an instructional provides a safe house and prevention education, she and her obtained recycling bins, managed and distributed them to all and her volunteers built garden boxes to grow fresh packet and sample letters and visited three schools to volunteers assembled an entertainment and skill building classrooms and the cafeteria, and educated the campus on vegetables. creating a new food source for the food bank. speak to students. She received over 1,600 letters of thanks cabinet and filled it with donations of books, games, and recycling procedures. A recycling club was formed to collect She also produced a brochure for the food bank clients and appreciation from the students that were then sorted jewelry-making resources she received from the community. the recycling and deliver it to the area where the city would with information on how to have a garden at home and the and delivered to local fire and police stations and mailed to For several months on a weekly basis, she then taught crafts pick up the material. Since the program’s inception, over importance of healthy eating. Recipes for the vegetables military personnel. Her website will continue to publicize her and jewelry making to the girls to build confidence and self- 6000 pounds of material has been recycled. The club will that the food bank will distribute were also provided. The project and the school district will use the letter writing as worth. The program will be continued using her instructions continue this program and other DISD schools are using it volunteers at the food bank will plant and maintain the part of their curriculum. Anna Katharine will graduate from and support from several community organizations. Abbey as a model to replicate in their schools. Lauren will graduate garden boxes going forward. Rebecca will graduate from Parish Episcopal School in 2020. will graduate from Venture Academy Home School in 2020. from Woodrow Wilson High School in 2019. Braswell High School in 2019. Angelina Syler Sophia Sircar Sophia Sonawalla Holly Stone Hope for their Future The Roots of Our Community Speaking for Education Community Safety Program Girl Scout Troop 485. Angelina’s project Girl Scout Troop 3240. Sophia’s project Girl Scout Troop 6439. Sophia wanted Girl Scout Juliette. Holly’s project helped to enhanced the lives of moms and their addressed community awareness of student to help improve the communication educate her local community on common children at the Hope and Future Home in diversity at Cottonwood Creek Elementary. and public speaking skills of 3rd world safety issues. Working with her local police Guatemala by creating a family space in the Sophia organized and planned a Carnival of students in Khorog, Tajikistan. Working with department, she and her volunteers made facility. Angelina created awareness about this home and its Cultures event to celebrate the different student cultures Toastmasters, an international organization that teaches presentations and flyers to remind individuals about what needs throughout the Dallas area. She and her volunteers at the school. The Carnival was a huge success with over these skills, she formed a club to encourage students they can do to increase their own personal daily safety. Tips, raised funds at a garage sale, and then purchased, packed, 650 people attending. Sophia and her volunteers designed to reach higher educational goals and better career such as only using one ear bud while out walking or running, and shipped the items overseas. Once in Guatemala, the the Carnival event layout and activities for each area. The opportunities. Dealing with an 11 hour time difference were discussed. Her flyers and presentations covered a large purchased shelves and furniture were built and installed and Carnival highlighted various cultures with food exhibits, a and poor internet connectivity, Sophia none the less was area of Lewisville including businesses, churches, senior care the room decorated. She also coordinated a day of activities fashion show and other cultural activities. Using the how- able to successfully start a club and instruct students on centers and schools. Her high school will be incorporating for the moms and their children. The Women for Orphans to guide that Sophia wrote, Cottonwood Creek Elementary the art of public speaking. The club will continue to meet some of this information into fall orientations for incoming Worldwide Club at Ursuline will continue to work with this and other neighboring schools plan to continue the cultural and a 2nd club in Dushanbe, Tajikistan is in the planning 9th and 10th graders going forward. Holly will graduate from facility on an annual basis. Angelina will graduate from event in the future. Sophia will graduate from Coppell High stages after noting the success of the first club. Sophia will Harmon High School in 2021. Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 2019. School in 2020. graduate from Plano West Senior High School in 2020.

24 25 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Victoria Taylor Stephanie Tonjes Aveline H. Vongkaseum Ayron Walker Sisters Encouraging and Cancer Care Totes Cataloging Library Books Using Ayron & Alejandra (A&A) Novels Embracing Diversity Girl Scout Troop 1. Stephanie’s project focused Polymer Clay Miniatures Girl Scout Troop 9436. Ayron created a Girl Scout Troop 1475. Victoria’s project on creating community support for cancer Girl Scout Troop 350. Aveline used her love children’s novel to showcase the struggles addressed the importance of self-worth patients going through chemotherapy. She of reading to create a project to encourage that children in her community face relating and self-esteem for girls ages 13-18 by and her volunteers made over 200 cancer middle school students to read. She and to self-image. The novel, called “The Skin developing roundtable discussions. Each monthly session care tote bags with comfort items to be used by the patients her volunteers developed a cataloging system for the You’re In” tackles the topic of colorism. Colorism is the posed a leading question as a starting point for discussion, as they were treated. The bags were made from “relay for library using decorative polymer clay miniatures which idea that lighter skin is more beautiful than darker skin. such as what is happiness, self-esteem or self-worth? The Life” t-shirts and then filled with activity books, gloves, hand they designed and built. Each miniature represents a Using volunteers to edit and bounce ideas off of, the participants also worked together outside the meetings, sanitizer, reading books and puzzles as well as letters of different reading genre which is placed in the appropriate novel’s diverse characters address this issue in a real world doing community service projects or mentoring to build encouragement. She also made presentations around the location in the Franklin Middle School library to assist setting. The novel will help children understand colorism a stronger sisterhood bond. The seminars promoted community to explain chemotherapy treatment, side effects students in finding their area of reading interest. Once all and to speak up against the mistreatment of others due new friendships, encouraged the young ladies to value and how to help. Several groups in the area are considering of the miniatures were placed, she held a presentation for to the color of their skin. The novel is available online themselves, and positively influence others. Victoria is making additional totes using the how-to materials she students and their families to explain the new cataloging through Wattpad.com to be read for free worldwide. Ayron considering making this a non-profit organization in the created. Stephanie will graduate from Grace Community option. The Art Club at Highland Park will continue the graduated from Village Tech Schools in 2018. future. Her school will continue the current program using School in 2019. project going forward. Aveline graduated from Highland their weekly club guidelines. Victoria will graduate from The Park High School in 2018. Bianca Weimer Cambridge School of Dallas in 2019. Alina Valli Out on a Limb Rosemeade Preschool Pals, Arts Amanda Walker Girl Scout Troop 8638. Bianca worked with Genevieve Terrell Summer Camp Soap for Hope Texas Scottish Rite Hospitals in Dallas and Buddy Bench and Improvements to Girl Scout Troop 6439. Alina worked with Girl Scout Troop 9323. Amanda’s project Frisco. Her project addressed the issue of the Outdoor Learning Area the Rosemeade Preschool Pals program in addressed the issue of youth homelessness arm slings being a possible choking hazard Girl Scout Troop 3892. Genevieve’s project her local recreation center. Recognizing that in her community. By drawing attention to for younger children. To alleviate this problem, Bianca and addressed the isolation and bullying that the school didn’t have the resources needed for a robust this growing problem, Amanda’s goal was to her volunteers created over 500 tie-dye tube sock cast many students at Pecan Creek Elementary educational program, she developed lesson plan booklets see more resources distributed to youth homeless shelters covers that prevent choking. She also designed an activity were experiencing. She and her volunteers updated an area on topics such as the Phases of the Moon, Land and Sea and an increase in the programs supporting at-risk kids book with puzzles, coloring sheets and mazes, and donated to promote friendship and inclusivity on the playground by Animals, Senses, and Colors as requested by the teachers. in her local community. She made multiple presentations books and games to ease children’s nerves before surgery building a Buddy Bench. The bench was painted sky blue with She and her volunteers also created activities for the 3-6 to students attempting to change assumptions about the and to give them a sense of home. As a Scottish Rite patient white clouds and rainbow colored balloons. The raised beds year old children to do, such as 4th of July lanterns, dinosaur homeless, and advocating for more volunteers to work with herself, she understands the importance of a worry-free in the Outdoor Learning area were given a facelift and painted making and an All About Me booklet. Copies of all of her City House, a facility that aids homeless youth. She and her environment. The hospitals will reprint the activity book as with coordinating rainbow colors. The area now serves as a booklets and activities were left with the school instructors volunteers also solicited donations for City House for their needed using the files Bianca provided. Bianca will graduate place for friendship and communication with Buddy Bench to be duplicated when supplies run out. Alina will graduate outreach center. A community service club at her school will from Plano Senior High School in 2020. Ambassadors, trained by Genevieve, in place to promote from Hebron High School in 2020. continue to volunteer at City House going forward. Amanda better socialization. The school will maintain the bench and will graduate from McKinney High School in 2020. Jada White include lessons during class encouraging the bench’s use. Cassie Vestal Order on the Court Genevieve will graduate from Ryan High School in 2021. Stand Strong Anna Walker Girl Scout Troop 2225. Jada held a volleyball Girl Scout Troop 442. Cassie’s project Story in the Park clinic at Rowlett High School for the Attention Tamia Thompson addressed domestic violence and abuse Girl Scout Troop 857. Anna designed and Learning Environment students. Her goal All Things Unequal and educated youth on the skills needed to implemented a unique way to encourage was to make them feel a part of the school Girl Scout Troop 8657. Tamia created awareness protect themselves. Cassie designed and young readers by holding Story in the Park by having their own team and to motivate confidence in her community regarding economic implemented a two week class about intimate partner events. These events were family oriented and and positive attitudes in a team environment. She and disparities and inequalities that exist. violence, how to stand up to abusers and knowledge run outside away from technology. She and her volunteers her volunteers taught the students the skills of the game, Using film as a medium for her project, she necessary to tackle dangerous situations. The class featured enlarged the pages of different books, placed them on such as passing, bumping and serving, modifying them as interviewed directors of local shelters and social service local experts that taught basic self-defense moves and stakes, and then had families read each page as they walked needed to address their disabilities. Their teacher noticed organizations. She made numerous presentations to shed brought awareness to the often-ignored topic of male victim through the park. After the story was complete, the children the difference the clinic made, saying she had seen a growth light on this problem and its misconceptions with the abuse. She and her volunteers also shared information had snacks and did a craft that was related to the story, in communication, social skills, and most importantly, their hope of inspiring others to work toward alleviating this about domestic violence resources at a community event in reinforcing their reading comprehension of the characters confidence. The volleyball clinic will be continued each year issue. She also explained the need for personal care items, McKinney. A “how to” manual is available on her website for and theme. The events were so successful that the City of by the Rowlett senior players after their volleyball season has encouraging people to donate and volunteer at their local her program to be replicated, as well as at the church where University Park will be continuing them using instructions ended. Jada will graduate from Rowlett High School in 2019. organizations. Pre-and post-surveys were done to determine the program was held. Cassie will graduate from McKinney that Anna produced. Anna will graduate from Highland Park the effectiveness of the presentations with results indicating North High School in 2019. High School in 2020. a new belief in economic inequality and interest in making changes in the community. Tamia will graduate from Little Elm High School in 2020.

26 27 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Sarah Womble Ashlyn Wynne Alyson Youngers Caroline Zagielski Child Care Group Mural Small Group Outdoor Learning Area Outward Reading Classroom Cooking Girl Scout Troop 857. Sarah worked with Child Girl Scout Troop 3402. Ashlyn created an Girl Scout Troop 3402. Alyson’s project Girl Scout Troop 839. Caroline focused her Care Group, an organization that provides outdoor space at the Chase Oaks Church. promoted literacy in Costa Rica. Alyson project on encouraging healthy eating habits daycare for single parents and lower income Recognizing that it would give the church collected over 1,000 children’s books, which and ways to avoid obesity. Working with working families. She and her volunteers added benefit, she and her volunteers she and her volunteers organized by reading the 2nd grade students at Preston Hollow painted a mural at Hogg Elementary to bring color and designed and installed a 23 by 24 foot area with a 90 foot level and author, as well as developing a checkout system. Elementary, each Monday, she and her volunteers used positivity to the school environment. The mural featured an walkway. Three sanded and stained picnic tables, a nine foot She then took the books to Costa Rica, establishing a library various healthy snacks as a way to explain how the food they inclusive group of children running, walking and playing using cross and flowers and mulch were added. The space will give there. She also developed lesson plans to be used by future consumed impacted the way they slept, looked, felt, and bright colors, shapes and objects that are easily recognizable congregants a place for small groups to meet, pray, learn or volunteers in Costa Rica, including Girl Scouts attending thought. The students made the snacks and then received to students. Her YouTube video showed the before and after just hang out. Picnics, weather permitting, will also support the Destination: Costa Rica/Panama Service Challenge. a recipe card so that they could replicate it at home and of the mural, how it was drawn first on the wall and then a stronger fellowship as people build personal relationships. The lessons will help the children learn to read. Due to the share the benefits of the healthy ingredients with their painted in grids, as well as information about how to find The church will maintain the new space and re-stain the overwhelming response to Alyson’s book collection efforts, families. She also reached out to other schools to share her child care in local communities. Sarah will graduate from tables or cross as needed. Ashlyn will graduate from Wylie she was also able to donate 1,000 books to the African program and this has led to changes in curriculum and more Highland Park High School in 2020. High School in 2022. Library Project in Malawi, Africa. The organizations will gardening programs being developed. Caroline will graduate maintain the libraries and use her lessons going forward. from Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 2019. Madeline Woods Elizabeth Wynne Alyson will graduate from Wylie High School in 2021. Seeds for Special Needs Prayer Garden Memorial Jordan Zatorski Riley Youngers Girl Scout Juliette. Madeline designed and Girl Scout Troop 3402. Elizabeth’s project Culture of the Camp constructed a garden for the special needs updated the Memorial Tree at First Methodist Unleash Mobility Girl Scout Troop 426. To combat the Texas students at Downing Middle School. She and Church of Sachse, which was created as a Girl Scout Troop 3402. Riley partnered with heat, Jordan and her volunteers built a large her volunteers built the garden beds and then memorial for the beloved Pastor Russ and Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), tipi structure at Camp Tonkawa. The tipi gave placed fencing around it. The garden served as a way for his family. She and her volunteers refurbished the area, first an organization that provides assistance dogs campers and staff a place to go to take a the students to overcome their tactile and sensory issues removing the stone path and expanding the space. Then the to people with disabilities. CCI is always in break or eat lunch without sitting under the blazing sun. as they learned how to plant, weed, care for the garden and stones were repositioned in a straight pathway, sand and need of puppy raisers, so Riley and her volunteers planned The structure was designed with an open bottom to let then cook their harvest. Madeline collaborated with the plastic were placed to prevent weeds, flowers were planted, and implemented a community event to educate people air circulate, using pre-treated wood and water resistant special needs teacher to create curriculum related to when along with edging. The broken benches were replaced to about this need and the organization. The event, which about paint. It was anchored to the ground using poles that were and how to plant and healthier eating options. The school match the remaining bench. The memorial garden is an 150 people attended, included a dog walk and two puppy cemented over 2 feet down. Native American symbols were and the Circle of Friends Club will maintain the garden and important part of the church landscape and now provides a raisers from CCI who explained puppy raiser responsibilities. added to the tipi to fit with Camp Tonkawa’s overall theme. continue to encourage healthy eating with the growing and place where members can relax, reflect and pray. The church Riley also had a variety of community businesses and The camp will maintain the tipi as needed. Jordan will harvesting of the produce annually. Madeline will graduate will maintain the area going forward. Elizabeth will graduate services host booths, two photo booths with props to graduate from Wakeland High School in 2019. from Marcus High School in 2019. from Wylie High School in 2022. capture the fun moments, and a children’s activity table. Riley donated her photo booths to CCI for their annual DFW Sophia Zimmerman Katie Wright Katherine Xiong CCI Dog Fest event. Riley will graduate from Wylie High Puppy Project School in 2022. Saving South Africa Inspiring an Interest in STEM Girl Scout Troop 8515. Sophia coordinated Girl Scout Troop 3085. Using what she had Girl Scout Troop 156. Katherine wanted to Kaitlyn Yuan having therapy dogs and their handlers visit learned after a trip to South Africa, Katie share her love of STEM, so working with Lee her school each day of finals week during created awareness about wildlife and water Elementary school, she created science Promoting Art for the Youth of the the fall and spring semesters. The therapy conservation and the South African education experiment kits for the 4th grade students Boys and Girls Club of Plano dogs gave the students a much needed break between crisis. She and her volunteers presented information about to explore engineering, physics, chemistry or earth science. Girl Scout Troop 8515. Kaitlyn took her exams by encouraging them to interact with the dogs to these issues and tied them back to our local area. The Each kit had an easy DIY experiment, like making slime and passion for art and created art lessons for relax and relieve stress. Sophia and her volunteers displayed presentations covered ways to conserve water at home, a lesson on the specific science area. She also organized over six months at the Boys and Girls Club of educational posters at the school and provided each student follow outside watering restrictions, and the harm poaching science demonstrations at the school to encourage the Plano. The participants, many at risk students, learned to with an educational flyer about the benefits of therapy dogs. and minimal restrictions on hunting do to the environment students to use the kits. The kits, as well as instructions appreciate art through different techniques that Kaitlyn and Sophia also spoke to numerous troops about therapy dogs for wildlife. She spoke at multiple elementary schools, on how to replace the materials for the experiments as her volunteers presented. They also explored how art could in her Service Unit during their annual Amazing Race event. cultural events, The Allen ISD Board of Education and with needed, are being managed by the 4th grade teacher. They be a way to relax and have fun. At the end of the year, the The therapy dog program will be continued by the school’s the Director of Animal Conservation at Fossil Rim. The will also be adding some of the program to their classroom students’ art pieces were displayed for family and friends student council. Sophia will graduate from Plano East Senior outdoor adventure teacher at Allen High School will use curriculum next year. Katherine graduated from Texas to see. Kaitlyn left her lesson plans to continue the program High School in 2019. Katie’s information to continue the awareness. Katie will Academy of Math and Science in 2018. at the Boys and Girls Club, as well as art supplies that were graduate from Allen High School in 2020. donated as she created awareness about the importance of art education. Kaitlyn will graduate from Plano East Senior High School in 2019.

28 29 MANY THANKS TO THE GOLD AWARD COMMITTEE The Betty Richardson Girl Scout Gold Award Scholarship

Wanda Amyx Jenny Hoch Carolyn Parr Established in honor of former Tejas Council President Betty Richardson, the Janice Boomstein Lynn Johnson Karen Proctor Girl Scout Gold Award Scholarship was created to encourage girls to remain in Girl Scouting as well as to help girls reach their full potential as women through Kathy Beardsley LuAnne Jones Laura Robicheaux higher education. Kathleen Burrow Mary Jones Sandy Standsbury To be eligible for the scholarship, the recipient must:

Martha Coleman Reva Knight Debbie Thompson • Be registered with Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas and be an active member of Jeannette Colliton Susan Krnic Madonna Russell the organization. Marco Cosby Sherrie Kubiak Wendy Weber • Be a resident of Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas’ 32-county jurisdiction at the time of the award. Patti Higginbotham Carrie Martinez • Be a Girl Scout Gold Award recipient.

• Be a high school graduating senior.

• Be accepted into an accredited institution of higher learning.

The Betty Richardson Girl Scout Gold Award Scholarship selection Girl Scouts has fed the female committee takes into consideration the applicant’s academic and GPA record in high school; participation in Girl Scouting; leadership experience; leadership pipeline since 1912. extracurricular/community involvement/work experience; essay; and letters And so can you. of recommendation.

Whether you were a Girl Scout for one year (or 10!), you’re The Betty Richardson Girl Scout Gold Award Scholarship is funded through a grant from Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas Board designated funds and contributions part of a dynamic sisterhood of more than 50 million alums made by individuals. Contributions to the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas Gold who are blazing trails and changing the world. Discover how Award Scholarship Fund are accepted year round. These contributions are tax your fellow alums are making an impact across the globe deductible to the extent that the law allows. and promote women’s and girls’ empowerment through the

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30 31 Prior Highest Awards Join the Gold Award Family Girl Scouts who earned their First Class, Curved Bar, Golden Eaglet, or Golden Eagle of Merit are a part of the Gold Award Girl Scout family. To make it official, we’re debuting a digital credential for you to display on LinkedIn (and other digital platforms) to show that you earned the highest award in Girl Scouting. Now you can display your award with pride and show the world—and potential employers—that you can triumph over any challenge that comes your way!

Visit girlscouts.org/proclamation to complete a form to access your digital badge. If you’re a recipient of one of the prior awards, you can get your Gold Award pin, too.

Official Gold Award Status WHEREAS, since 1916, Girl Scouts have accepted the challenge of earning the Movement’s highest award, thereby demonstrating a commitment to bettering themselves, their communities, and the world; and

WHEREAS, this highest award has had different names over the years, including the Golden Eaglet (1916–39), the Curved Bar (1940–63), First Class (1938–40, 1963–80), and, since 1980, the Girl Scout Gold Award; and

WHEREAS, those who have earned it have shown the same outstanding leadership skills, determination, and resilience that have made Girl Scouts’ highest award a unique rite of passage for young women across the Movement;

NOW THEREFORE, I, Sylvia Acevedo, Chief Executive Officer of Girl Scouts of the USA, do hereby proclaim that all who have earned the highest award in Girl Scouts can on this day, January 15, 2019, and henceforth be recognized as Gold Award Girl Scouts, united by their similarities and their ideals, with all rights and privileges therein.