All About the Gold Award

This post is meant to accompany slide #2 entitled "The Gold Award" from my presentation that I gave to the volunteers helping me with my project. The presentation can be found in a post below. I will update this blog with detailed information about the others slides as well.

This project is my Gold Award project for Girl Scouts. I have been in Girl Scouts for more than 10 years. The troop I'm currently in has only myself and one other girl left in it. She is one of my good friends and we have been together for quite a while now. As ambassadors in the program, we are the leaders, and we do activities such as assisting and planing events, teaching younger girls, and sharing our information, knowledge, and things that we've learned.

Personally, Girl Scouts has taught me to become a responsible, confident, empowered young woman who can make a difference in my community through positive and effective leadership. I have honestly learned some extremely valuable skills that will help me in the real world, and have been challenged to further develop skills that are some of my weaker ones, such as public speaking and communication with adults about certain issues or topics. I've learned about planning, designing, and implementing my ideas into projects to benefit society. 

The Gold Award is the highest and most prestigious award that Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors can earn. Since 1916, the Gold Award has stood for excellence and leadership for girls everywhere. The Gold Award project challenges girls to identify an unmet need or core issue in the community, research and investigate it, recruit volunteers and build a team to create a plan to address the issue/need.

The Gold Award project must have a sustainable impact on my community. The community that I have chosen to focus on is the youth of the world living in poverty, specifically in Haiti. Child poverty is the major issue that I hope to tackle with my project. The aspects of the project are broken down into several stages: brainstorming to come up with an idea, research to find out what area of need to address and if it is feasible, planning out the action I'm going to take to carry out my ideas, implementation of the project, and final review and presentation. 

The plan for my Gold Award project is to help the kids in Haiti. I'm working to make backpacks packed with items that some kids being cared for could really use. I'm collecting hygiene items, clothing, school supplies, and miscellaneous items and small toys. I'm trying to pack a bunch of backpacks to give to all the children when I visit Haiti in March over spring break. 

I will be finishing up my project over the next few weeks and then giving my final presentation at the end of February. I will continue updating this website with my progress, and information about Haiti and child poverty, and what I'm doing to help solve the issues in that community. If you would like to know more about the Gold Award project, please visit http://www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org/gold-award and for more info about the Girl Scouts of Colorado, please visit  http://www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org/home. For more information about my project specifically, please read the other posts on this blog or email me with questions or comments at emilysgoldaward@gmail.com. Thanks for visiting!!