The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest achievement in Girl Scouting, earned by Senior or Ambassador Girl Scouts who create sustainable, measurable, and lasting change on a community issue. Recipients complete a minimum of 80 hours of work, demonstrating exceptional leadership. Girl Scouts identify a root cause […]
Girl Scouts of Western New York is proud to announce Kit Panna as a 2025 Gold Award Girl Scout. Project: You are gonna be OK! Collecting supplies to put bags together for those going into the foster care system. Hillside children’s Center, Erie county child protective services, Trinity […]
Girl Scouts of Western New York is proud to announce Lillian Lewinski as a 2025 Gold Award Girl Scout. Project: Community Resource Boxes My project was building community resource boxes in communities where senior citizens who are not able to drive or have access to the internet can […]
Girl Scouts of Western New York is proud to announce Valerie Merlino as a 2025 Gold Award Girl Scout. Project: Community Mural My gold award project consisted of a hand painted, community mural. I created portraits of 7 different influential women who were born/raised in our area and […]
Girl Scouts of Western New York is proud to announce Megan Engler as a 2025 Gold Award Girl Scout. Project: Literacy Kits My Gold Award project was creating literacy kits for Westminster Community Charter School, where families could check them out of the school and take them home […]
Girl Scouts of Western New York is proud to announce Grace Foster as a 2025 Gold Award Girl Scout. Project: LGBTQ resource center For my project, I built an LGBTQ resource center in the counseling department of my school. I contacted and received resources from the Trevor Project […]
Girl Scouts of Western New York is proud to announce Phoebe Martin as a 2025 Gold Award Girl Scout. Project: Phoebe’s Gold Award For my Gold Award project, I created a pop-up, reusable exhibit about climate change at the Rochester Museum and Science Center. In this exhibit I […]
Girl Scouts of Western New York is proud to announce Penelope DiFelice as a 2025 Gold Award Girl Scout. Project: Camp at DASA Preschool DASA Preschool is a not-for-profit preschool. The root cause of the issue my Gold Award addressed was that childcare is difficult to obtain when […]
Girl Scouts of Western New York is proud to announce Sabrina HotraTwigger as a 2025 Gold Award Girl Scout. Project: Cozy Reading Blankets Safe, warm, relaxed, satisfied, and in control are feelings that homeless people do not feel. Poverty, job loss, economic hardship, lack of affordable housing, and […]
Girl Scouts of Western New York is proud to announce Anna Kuefus as a 2025 Gold Award Girl Scout. Project: GSA Club My gold award project was starting a GSA club at my high school. A GSA club is a Gender and Sexuality Alliance club formerly known as […]
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