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22 Girl Scout Gold Award winners recognized at Reflections Ceremony

The Girl Scout Gold Award is a national award, a personal challenge and the highest award that a Girl Scout Senior or Ambassador may choose to pursue.

This year, 22 Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri (GSEM) received their Gold Awards at the annual Reflections ceremony, which took place at Maritz, Inc. in Fenton on June 2.

Earning The Girl Scout Gold Award requires a suggested 80 hours of planning and implementing a challenging, large-scale project that is innovative, engages others and has a lasting impact on its targeted community with an emphasis on sustainability.

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Since 1916, the Girl Scout Gold Award has represented excellence and leadership for girls everywhere. Earning the Girl Scout Gold Award puts winners among an exceptional group of women who have used their knowledge and leadership skills to make a difference in the world (less than one percent of all Girl Scouts earn the Girl Scout Gold Award).

Below is an excerpt from a local Girl Scout about her Gold Award project:

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Corinne Davis

Cori could have done her Gold Award project anywhere but she wanted to improve an area near home.

She contacted area parks and discovered that Jefferson Barracks Park needed some tender loving care with its Lewis & Clark interpretive panel and picnic area. She started along the Memorial Walkway, which has five different spots to visit and is the site for the Battle of the Bulge Memorial and the Veterans’ Memorial Amphitheatre.

Her goal was to clear out the area around a pavilion, plant rose bushes behind benches and to repaint a pavilion and railing that overlooks the Mississippi River.

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