Girl Scouts of Western New York is proud to announce Korren Baskerville of Orchard Park, NY, as a 2019 Gold Award Girl Scout. Baskerville’s project was titled “Church Garden Fix After Tornado.” Baskerville explained, “I did my Gold Award project at Saint Bernadette’s Church. I completely redid the […]
Girl Scouts of Western New York is proud to announce Alexis Barron of Lakewood, NY, as a 2019 Gold Award Girl Scout. Barron’s project, The Dock Project, was to build a floating dock for community use in Jamestown. Barron explained, “My Gold Award project was to build a […]
We’re about halfway through our 2018-19 Membership Year, which leaves many potential Girl Scouts thinking there’s no reason to join now. The school year is almost over, which means Girl Scouts is about to shut down too, right? Actually, this isn’t right at all. While most troops choose […]
For more than 100 years, we’ve been the preeminent leadership organization for girls, developing businesswomen, astronauts, governors, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and even secretaries of state. The benefit of our program speaks for itself, yet it’s easy to miss why our program is so important. The Girl Scout difference is […]
[The story originally appeared on GirlScouts.org] Prior Highest Awards Join 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 […]
The Girl Scout Gold Award is the most prestigious award in the world for girls. Reserved for Senior and Ambassador Girl Scouts, it is the highest and most difficult of all our awards. The leadership skills, organizational skills, and sense of community and commitment that come from “going […]
[Below is a guest post written by Gold Award Girl Scout Chris Belin] My name is Chris Belin. I am a 38 year-old self-employed Health and Business Coach living in East Amherst, NY. Just over 20 years ago, I earned my Girl Scout Gold Award, and to this […]
Today Boy Scouts announced a change in who they are – while its parent organization will keep the title of Boy Scouts of America, its actual boy scouting program will be called ‘Scouts BSA,’ starting next February. This change came after the controversial decision in 2017 to let […]
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