Hearts Of Gold - Reflections from Gold Award Girl Scouts

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Elisa shares her experience collecting donations and creating art kits for children in foster care.

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Elisa Fontanillas, a Girl Scout Ambassador has been a scout since kindergarten, and now as a senior in High School she has recently wrapped up her journey with scouting through her Gold Award. Kits for Kids, Elisa's Gold Award, was created in order to create art kits for different age groups through widespread community donations of art supplies from local schools or businesses. The goal of the Kits was to make sure that kids were able to create art with their foster families, friends, or by themselves and to ultimately encourage individual expression.

Elisa is in the Globalization Academy at her high school, a globally focused pathway of high school courses and enjoys dancing, playing the violin at her school orchestra and the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra, and runs her own photography business for production photos of theatre productions, headshots, and senior photos. She plans to attend a university that will allow for her to major in graphic communications and international business, which are major interests in her life that she hopes to pursue.

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Cynthia shares her experience working with Birds of Prey.

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My name is Cynthia Plaugher, and I am a Girl Scout from Fredericksburg, Virginia. I was homeschooled my entire life and am a lifetime scout after 12 amazing years of adventure and a passion for the outdoors. I've earned my Silver Award and my Gold Award and love being able to help younger scouts through the same journeys. I love going camping and spending my spare time out in nature. I also enjoy writing and other craft projects. I am currently attending Sweet Briar College for my environmental science major, but no existing plans for after college.

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Marissa shares her experience engaging youth in Yoga to reduce anxiety.

This episode is dedicated to the memory of Julie Fletcher and Liz Zeps.

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I am Lifetime Girl Scout from Sparta, Wisconsin. I have been in Girl Scouts since Kindergarten. Some of my favorite memories from Girl Scouts were going horseback or being able to be a chaperone for a trip to California. I have received the I Walk by my Faith, Bronze, Silver, and Gold award. My Girl Scout Gold Award project is in remembrance of two of my Girl Scout Leaders, Liz Zeps and Julie Fletcher. I am a sophomore psychology major at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. I plan on going to graduate school to become a high school counselor.

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Maya shares her experience creating a library craft program for children with special needs.

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I have been a Girl Scout for about 11 years. I am so grateful I had the opportunity to start my own project as big as this one. Working with children with special needs is something I have always done, so the project takes a special place in my heart because I am able to use my knowledge to make a difference. I think there are so many wonderful organizations that work solely with kids on the spectrum, but I was looking to help create meaningful bonds between peers who are neurotypical and those on the spectrum. I think it is so beneficial for all children to be exposed to different kinds of people who they can learn and grow from. Raising awareness also comes with educating yourself on what you are trying to achieve. I think the kids in the group and supporters I have encountered along the way have taught me so much and I look forward to a new year of crafts! Instagram: @abilitieswithpossibilities

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Marianella shares her experience creating a STEM program for underserved girls of color.

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Residing in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, Marianella Salinas is a rising senior at Westover School, a single-sex boarding and day school in Middlebury, Connecticut. Since first-grade, Marianella has been a Girl Scout earning her Bronze, Silver and Gold Award. In her free time, she enjoys playing squash and golf as well as traveling to new destinations; her favorite place she traveled to so far was Rwanda. Her favorite classes are math, physics, and french. Marianella aspires to be an engineering student studying mechanical or electrical engineering. In the future, she hopes to continue her STEM outreach work.

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Shelby shares her experience creating awareness around Black Dog Syndrome - supporting adoption of darker colored animals that aren't as readily adopted as other colored animals.

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Shelby Dye is a Girl Scout from Oklahoma City and has been a Girl Scout for 12 years. As a Girl Scout, Shelby earned her Bronze, Silver, and Gold award. She led her troop as a youth leader for 6 years and was the secretary of the adult leadership for 3 years. Shelby also created a flag team for her troop. She plays the flute and is a varsity tennis player. Shelby also plays handbells for her church and is an avid volunteer. She was a drum major for her school for 2 years, and was head drum major her senior year. Shelby plans on going to Baylor University to major in Environmental Science with a minor in music and nonprofit studies.

Additional information on Black Dog Syndrome

https://oklahoman.com/article/5624476/girl-scout-brings-awareness-to-black-dog-syndrome

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Sabrina shares her experience creating multi language books for families of Alzheimer's patients to use with their loved ones.

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Sabrina Capodicci of Southbury, CT has been a Girl Scout for twelve years, earning her Bronze, Silver, and Gold Awards. She attended St. Rose of Lima School in Newtown from kindergarten through eighth grade, where she became a Newtown Girl Scout. Currently, she attends the Canterbury School in New Milford, where she is a student government leader and Secretary-General (president) of Model UN. She continues to volunteer with the Alzheimer's Association after completing her project. In college, she hopes to study astrophysics and astronautical engineering. She also enjoys reading, visual and theatrical art, and spending time with family and friends.

Website:

https://connectalz.wixsite.com/memorybooks

Under the "About" tab, there is a page called "Presentations" that provides lots of photos of me presenting my project! I do not have releases from those pictured but they granted me permission to post the photos on my website. The "Photos of Books" page has pictures of the books themselves.

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Amelia shares her experience creating an art program for senior citizens.

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Hi! 'm a rising senior in high school, I've been a Girl Scout ever since I was in kindergarten, so it's been a pretty consistent part of my life. When I'm not doing service activities, I love art, writing, and piano.

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Rachel shares her experience renovating a habitat to increase protection from hurricanes.

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Hi, my name is Rachel Mazyck. I was a Girl Scout for about 9 years with Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida. Throughout my years I have done many things that have helped me flourish into the person I am today. I earned my silver and gold award, Counselor in Training certification, Presidential Community Service Award, and several others. Also while being a girl scout, I attended the 2014 and 2017 Girl scout conventions. Furthermore, I challenged myself to also do internships during my time in high school and completed Arts for Learning internship and United Way Fellowship. Now as a college student, I attend Florida Atlantic University studying Geography with a focus in Environmental Science. I will also be a Residential Assistant for freshmen to help them on their journey through the first year of college. Also, I am currently working towards becoming a real estate agent.

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Brekke shares about the importance of vaccinating, making a video, and her camp leadership experiences.

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Brekke Pattison is a senior at Murray High School. She has been a Girl Scout for 13 years and has received her Bronze Award, Silver Award, and Gold Award. Brekke worked as an intern with the Girl Scouts of Utah's summer residence camps. Under the camp name "Tinkerbell", Brekke worked with girls using the skills she had learned from the camp's leadership camp programs. She worked mainly with younger children aged 5-8 years old. This experience has lead her to develop her future goal of become a pediatrician.

Brekke is going into college next year going for a chemistry major with an emphasis in biology. She then plans on going to medical school. Brekke's career goal helped her decide on her Girl Scout Gold Award project. Her project was to educate people on how vaccines work in a way that went into the science, but in a way that people could understand. Brekke's project was Vacc-U-Cation: An Education on the Science of Vaccines and has spread to pediatric offices and college classrooms on a global scale. Brekke is also involved track, cross-country, jazz band, symphonic band, and Peer Leadership Team.

Brekke's website: https://www.vaccucation.org/

Vacc-u-cation YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8tf2LvocW4

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