2024 High Awards Region 2
May 01, 2024
TWO AREA GIRL SCOUTS EARN PRESTIGIOUS GOLD AWARD
Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia proudly honors 19 Gold Award Girl Scouts across the council.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA (May 1, 2024)— Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia proudly recognizes local Girl Scouts Scarlett Glover and Katelyn Williams as members of the 2024 Girl Scout Gold Award class who earned the highest award in Girl Scouting, the Gold Award. Glover and Williams will be honored at a formal ceremony at Harlem High School on Sunday, May 5, at 6 pm. Younger Girl Scouts who have earned the Silver or Bronze Award and volunteers who have earned council and national level awards will also be honored during the ceremony.
The 2024 Gold Award Girl Scouts demonstrate the breadth of issues American teens feel are most prevalent in society today.
Scarlett Glover, an Augusta Girl Scout from Troop 20001, focused on her passion of marine biology with her project, “Marine Life Lives On,” which centered on educating people on how pollution affects the oceans and the living organisms within and around it. For her project, she created informational graphics that she put up in local beach areas, led beach cleanups, built PVC pipe fishing line disposal units to provide more convenient means of waste care, and even wrote a children’s book about pollution that she shared with local schools.
Katelyn Williams, a Grovetown Girl Scout from Troop 20035, worked on “Bringing Awareness to Animal Assisted Therapy for Children.” For her project, she gaved an educational presentation and developed a pamphlet outlining the benefits of animal assisted therapy for children. She distributed the pamphlets to the nursing program at Augusta University, multiple schools, pediatric primary care offices, and therapy offices. She also led a team that designed and constructed a goat obstacle course, which was donated to a local animal assisted therapy farm to be used in therapy sessions.
Gold Award Girl Scouts make positive impacts on our local communities by addressing some of our most pressing issues. They become innovative problem-solvers, empathetic leaders, confident public speakers, and focused project managers. They learn resourcefulness, tenacity, and decision-making skills, giving them an edge personally and professionally. As they take action to transform their communities, Gold Award Girl Scouts gain tangible skills and prove they’re the leaders our world needs. The 2024 Gold Award Girl Scout class identified issues in their communities, took action, and found or created solutions to earn their Gold Awards, addressing real-life problems such as environmental sustainability, racial justice, mental and physical well-being, and gender inequality in STEM.
According to recent research, Gold Award Girl Scouts are more likely to fill leadership roles at work and in their personal lives and are more civically engaged than their non-Girl Scout peers. Eighty-seven percent (87%) of Gold Award Girl Scouts agree that earning their Gold Award gave them skills that help them succeed professionally. Seventy-two percent ( 72%) said earning their Gold Award helped them get a scholarship. Changing the world doesn’t end when a Girl Scout earns her Gold Award. Ninety-nine percent (99%) of Gold Award Girl Scout alums take on leadership roles in their everyday lives.
To learn more about Girl Scout Highest Awards, visit the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia website. ❧
ABOUT GIRL SCOUTS OF HISTORIC GEORGIA: Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia is rich in heritage and purpose. The council extends from the North Georgia mountains to the Okefenokee and from the Atlantic coast to the Chattahoochee Valley. Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia serves more than 8,000 girls and 3,000 adults in 122 counties in Georgia, two counties in South Carolina and one county in Alabama. The council is also the home of our organization’s founder, Juliette Gordon Low, who founded Girl Scouts on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia, where her birthplace and the historic First Headquarters still welcome thousands of Girl Scouts every year. Girl Scouting gives girls a wide range of experiences to define leadership their way. To learn more, join, volunteer, or donate, visit www.gshg.org.
