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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 about a local Girl Scout’s Gold Award project:

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Karen Argent

Karen was passionate about helping her school, School Sisters of Notre Dame, for her Girl Scout Gold Award project.

The school has a peace pole on campus but nobody knew its purpose or paid much attention to it. Karen recruited a team to refurbish the pole, maintain the grounds around it and she created a plan to have an annual peace pole prayer service.

Her team also power washed the benches in the area so students had a place to sit, planted new flowers and added stones with inspirational words.

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