Hearts Of Gold - Reflections from Gold Award Girl Scouts

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Kate created a 6 week camp and triathlon encouraged youth to explore a new sport

More from Kate:

I have been a Girl Scout for 11 years, starting when I was five. Now at sixteen, I am a student-athlete who participates in Civil Air Patrol as squadron First Sergeant, and a Girl Scout Senior who volunteers with younger troops. As a military child, I have had many opportunities in different scouting councils such as the Las Vegas and Nation's Capital councils. This military life has allowed me to travel and gain knowledge from new experiences. I am working to complete high school with high academic standing with the goal of attending Oregon State University for Marine Biology. I also look to participate in ROTC during college and commission as a pilot for the United States Air Force.

Project summary: My project was created to introduce young girls to a new life-sustainable sport and how to care for their bodies. I worked with experts in athletics, nutrition, and physical fitness to create a mother-daughter 6 week triathlon camp. I joined with the Osan Fitness Center to add a youth triathlon to the summer series. This attracted families from Osan Air Base, Camp Humphreys Garrison, and Seoul. The 6 week camp and triathlon encouraged youth to explore a new sport, look at nutrition in a healthy way, and to seek ways to be active year round.

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Instagram: @tri_ing_mybest

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Anya worked to update the state and community laws regarding burials to encourage green burials.

More about Anya:

Anya Nicoll a Girl Scout for over nine years is currently an Ambassador in Troop 10615, a Girls Representative of the Green and White Mountains Board of Directors, and as of Spring 2022, a lifetime member and a Gold Award Girl Scout. When not serving her community or driving the change in our world as a Girl Scout, Anya can also be found at Saco Valley Gymnastics Center either coaching pre-school classes or perfecting her own skills as a Platinum Level Xcel Gymnast where she has taken first in New Hampshire States. This fall Anya will attend college at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) studying Material Science and Engineering. Her goal - to some day design materials for space exploration.

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Cydney shared selfcare, coping skills, and more with girls at her school.

More about Cydney:

Cydney Brown is the former Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate. She is an award-winning poet and author of "Daydreaming." She is a Senior at Abington Friends School and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade. Brown has been featured in The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, 6abc, Philadelphia Citizen, and Fox29. She loves that there are no limitations to writing. She has recited her poetry at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Hall, Lincoln University, The Ideas We Should Steal Festival, and The Kelly's Writers house. Her poetry explores the topics of social justice, self-image, love, and nature. She won first place in The National Hip Hop workshop poetry competition and loves to perform spoken word poetry. She is the Recipient of The Romero Scholarship For Excellence in Spoken Word. She is a Gold Award Ambassador Girl Scout who is active in improving her community and is the recipient of The Good Citizenship Award. Cydney wishes to inspire people to speak their truth and share her poetry with the world.

Website - https://www.cydtalks.com/

Book - https://www.amazon.com/Daydreaming-Cydney-Hope-Brown/dp/B08Z4B15T4/

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Hailey created a video to encourage girls to join troop 6000 using actual girls from the troop.

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My name is Hailey, and I have been a girl scout for eight years. I started as a second-year junior and bridged last year as an ambassador into adulthood. Throughout my eight years of scouting, I have created lifelong friends, learned the importance of advocacy, participated in countless take-action projects, and tried to make the world a better place. I am also a founding member of Troop 6000, the first Girl Scout troop designed for women and girls living in the New York City shelter system. My mother came up with the idea of starting the troop back in 2017 when we were living in the shelter ourselves. I am currently a first-year at St.John's University and am majoring in business in hopes of one day starting my own.

Project Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aouYIaoJvWxjOy4pOSHyKegW8Exw1Ss0/view

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Emma partnered with her library to create an event to show youth how they could be more engage in their community.

More about Emma:

Emma Fass is a Senior at Norcross High School in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. She is enrolled in the International Baccalaureate program, where she is a full Diploma candidate. She will graduate high school in May 2022. She plans to attend university in the fall to study International Affairs and Romance Languages. At school, Emma is a 4-year Varsity-Scholar Athlete for the Norcross Swim and Dive team, where she has been a state qualifier all four years. Currently, she is a senior captain on the team. In 2022, Emma won the County Championships in the 50-yard Freestyle event and placed top ten in the 7-A GHSA Swimming State Championships. Emma is also an active member in several clubs, including DECA, Women Empowering Women, Random Acts of Kindness, and she currently serves as a Vice-President in the National Spanish Honor Society. Emma is an active member of her community, and she regularly volunteers at the local library. She is a member of the Teen Advisory Council at the Peachtree Corners Library where she plans and carry-out programming for teens. Additionally, she is a participant in the Gwinnett County 4-H club as a teen leader and is a competitive year-round swimmer for the Spartans Aquatic Club. She is also involved in her Church youth group, where she is a CORE teen leader. Emma has been a Girl Scout for 13 years, joining in kindergarten. During her time as a Girl Scout, Emma has participated in a variety of activities. Her favorites are Father-Daughter Camping at Camp Misty Mountain with her dad and sister and World Thinking Day. Emma competed each year in the Gwinnett County bake-off, where she has won multiple times. She also spent a day at the Georgia Capitol in 2020. Emma is a recipient of the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Awards, the highest awards in Girl Scouting. This summer, Emma and her sister will embark on a Girl Scout Destination to Italy centered on the country's cuisine and culture. In her free time, Emma loves to read, watch movies, bake, and spend quality time with her cats. She also enjoys spending time outside with her friends and family. Emma's proudest accomplishments include her time as a United States Youth Ambassador to Ecuador in 2020 and a representative for Georgia at Girls State and Girls Nation in 2021.

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• AJC Article https://www.ajc.com/neighborhoods/teens-project-promotes-community-involvement/RRWT2SBSAFAQPGY7WLV5XSPQOI/

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Julie hosted a series of virtual volunteer fairs which highlighted 35 unique, Houston-based volunteer-driven organizations and nonprofits and created a website to continually access the fair and other resources.

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Julie Mandimutsira has had the absolute honor of being a Girl Scout since 4th grade. Through scouting, she received countless opportunities to expand her capabilities and grow in her confidence and maturity; from earning her Silver Award, for which she developed and gave a series of presentations that aimed to encourage adolescents to recognize their self-worth and appreciate and love their natural beauty, talents, and abilities and raised $500 worth of baby item donations for the PRMC of Fort Bend County Mommy Store program, and Gold Award, for which she hosted a series of virtual volunteer fairs which highlighted 35 unique, Houston-based volunteer-driven organizations and nonprofits that offer youth volunteering opportunities in a variety of career fields and for a variety of potential interests, created and launched a website to allow participants to continually access the fair and other resources and created and began recruiting interested participants for 2 additional youth professional development programs, to traveling to Costa Rica and Panama with Girl Scout Destinations to having a chance to try her hand at nearly everything from bookmaking to forensic science to entrepreneurship through badges and cookie sales, Julie truly enjoyed a delightful, transformative Girl Scouts career. She is currently a sophomore at Duke University, where she is majoring in Biomedical Engineering and minoring in Spanish and Computer Science. At Duke, Julie is an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers, FEMMES+, Project Tadpole, and Wannamaker Quad Council and is an Ignite Fellow for Center for Global Women's Health Technologies, a PepsiCo Ed-Tech Fellow, and a Virtual Reality Consultant in the Multimedia Project Studio. In her free time, she loves reading mystery, romance, adventure, and fantasy novels, dancing, kickboxing, and listening to music. Julie is not entirely sure of what the post-college future holds for her but hopes to explore a myriad of careers in her lifetime that range from AR/VR engineering to immunoengineering to writing to education.

Project Website: http://geartovolunteer.com/

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Julie hosted a series of virtual volunteer fairs which highlighted 35 unique, Houston-based volunteer-driven organizations and nonprofits and created a website to continually access the fair and other resources.

More about Julie:

Julie Mandimutsira has had the absolute honor of being a Girl Scout since 4th grade. Through scouting, she received countless opportunities to expand her capabilities and grow in her confidence and maturity; from earning her Silver Award, for which she developed and gave a series of presentations that aimed to encourage adolescents to recognize their self-worth and appreciate and love their natural beauty, talents, and abilities and raised $500 worth of baby item donations for the PRMC of Fort Bend County Mommy Store program, and Gold Award, for which she hosted a series of virtual volunteer fairs which highlighted 35 unique, Houston-based volunteer-driven organizations and nonprofits that offer youth volunteering opportunities in a variety of career fields and for a variety of potential interests, created and launched a website to allow participants to continually access the fair and other resources and created and began recruiting interested participants for 2 additional youth professional development programs, to traveling to Costa Rica and Panama with Girl Scout Destinations to having a chance to try her hand at nearly everything from bookmaking to forensic science to entrepreneurship through badges and cookie sales, Julie truly enjoyed a delightful, transformative Girl Scouts career. She is currently a sophomore at Duke University, where she is majoring in Biomedical Engineering and minoring in Spanish and Computer Science. At Duke, Julie is an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers, FEMMES+, Project Tadpole, and Wannamaker Quad Council and is an Ignite Fellow for Center for Global Women's Health Technologies, a PepsiCo Ed-Tech Fellow, and a Virtual Reality Consultant in the Multimedia Project Studio. In her free time, she loves reading mystery, romance, adventure, and fantasy novels, dancing, kickboxing, and listening to music. Julie is not entirely sure of what the post-college future holds for her but hopes to explore a myriad of careers in her lifetime that range from AR/VR engineering to immunoengineering to writing to education.

Project Website: http://geartovolunteer.com/

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Celestina updated the volunteer work space, volunteer guidelines and manuals, and create a social media presence for her local food pantry.

More about Celestina:

My name is Celestina Pint, I am a junior in high school from Knoxville, TN, and I have been a Girl Scout for almost 12 years. I love outdoor activities like backpacking and hiking, and I also enjoy traveling, baking, competitive board games, volunteering, and any type of art that involves creating something with my own hands. I am a member of my school's Equity and Inclusion Committee and co-president of our Baking Club; I also participate in Spanish Club, Mathletes, and Mu Alpha Theta. Outside of school, I participate in dance (my favorite genre is tap). I love all things math and science, so in the future I would like to participate in biomedical research that helps save lives and make the world a better place. I hope to major in Biomedical Engineering and eventually earn a PhD.

Instagram: @westknoxfishpantry

Facebook Page: @westknoxfishpantry

Website: westknoxfishpantry.org

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Madison advocated for Black adolescent mental health.

More about Madison:

Madison Garrett is a 17-year old changemaker and Ambassador Girl Scout of Troop 2261. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Madison began Girl Scouts at age 8 in Mount Lebanon Baptist Church. Since the first time she recited the Girl Scout Promise, Madison passionately lives out the mission of Girl Scouts. Receiving her Silver Award for raising awareness for environmental crises and earning her Gold Award for advocating for Black adolescent mental health, Madison aspires to make a difference any way she can.

For her Girl Scout Gold Award, Madison brought attention to the often-unknown issue of the rising suicide rate of Black children. Advocating for the cause in numerous ways, including speaking about self-esteem to the little Black girls of her Girl Scout Troop 2261, writing articles for The New York Beacon about Black mental health, and hosting a mental health seminar for all ages, Madison became determined to destigmatize the taboo of mental health within the Black community. As 2021 Girl Scout Future Woman of Distinction, she continues to spread her message, highlighting the importance of Black mental health on television, in publications, or simply speaking to her sister Scouts.

Entering Columbia University in the fall, Madison can't wait to continuously use her voice to raise awareness for disregarded and overlooked issues-including the matter of Black mental health and the increasing suicide rate of Black children.

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Katie created a video to show how easy it is to create a composting plan at home.

From Katie:

I was a Girl Scout for 13 years (Kindergarten-12th grade) with Troop 29334 in the Greater Atlanta area. While with my troop, I earned my Bronze, Silver, and Gold Awards along with other Community Service and Service to Girl Scout pins. Some of my favorite memories are from campouts, father-daughter dances, and world thinking days. In high school, I participated in color guard, worked at an ice cream store, and served on my youth group's leadership board. In college, I now belong to the Society of Women Engineers and Rescue Paws UGA. Currently, I am a freshman at the University of Georgia working towards my degree in Environmental Engineering with a minor in Geology. My goal is to eventually consult or go into the Army Corps of Engineers.

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• Project Instagram: @toogoodtowastecompost

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