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Longmont teens earn Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting

 

This spring, teens from Longmont are receiving the Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting. Jessica Anne Calzolari and Samantha Roberts have demonstrated exceptional commitment to taking action to make the world a better place through their community service. The accomplishments of Gold Award recipients reflect extraordinary leadership and citizenship skills that mark them as valuable contributors to their communities and world.

"Earning the Girl Scout Gold Award designation is truly a remarkable achievement, and these young women exemplify leadership in all its forms," said Stephanie Foote, Chief Executive Officer of Girl Scouts of Colorado. "They saw a need and took ownership of helping to develop a solution and took action to make it happen. Their extraordinary dedication, perseverance and leadership is making the world a better place."  

 

Jessica Anne Calzolari

Longmont

Mead High School

Hometown Hunger

 

“I established a community garden to supply fresh produce to a local food bank, St. John’s, for my Gold Award. I established a summer camp where children in the community learned about gardening, from planting to caring for plants and harvesting them. I also worked with OUR Center, which helps those in need, and taught a class on how easy it is to grow fresh produce and incorporate it into your life. The most successful aspect of my project was the relationships I created between volunteering at the community garden to working with the food bank volunteers. This project really helped me understand the kind of people who live in my community, and I know I made a difference in their lives.”

 

Samantha Roberts

Longmont

Skyline High School

Nutrition Guide for Student Athletes

 

“My Gold Award was all about helping student athletes perform at their best by staying hydrated and maintaining a proper diet. I have personal experience being an athlete and knowing what can happen if you don’t fuel your body correctly. I put together hundreds of bags for student athletes in my community thanks to the help of companies like Gatorade. The bags included protein granola bars, color and preservative free Gatorade, and an athlete nutrition brochure I put together. In addition to the bags I also made presentations to several sports teams in my community. I worked with local doctors and athletes to come up with the information to include in my brochure and presentations. Area coaches will use these materials in the future as well.”

The Gold Award culminates with a project led by one young woman between 9th and 12th grades who builds a purpose-based team to work with the larger community to meet a need. The focus of a Girl Scouts’ Gold Award project is identifying and researching a community issue she is passionate about, developing a plan to address it in cooperation with her team and community members, establishing a global connection with others and providing sustainability for the project. Of the skills learned through Girl Scouts’ Highest Awards, leadership, organization and critical thinking are the fundamentals of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. The Gold Award has been part of the Girl Scout program since 1916. Some universities and colleges offer scholarships unique to Gold Award recipients, and girls who enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces may receive advanced rank in recognition of their achievements.

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. We provide a safe place for girls to explore their world – from science, technology and the environment to healthy living, anti-bullying and financial literacy. For more than 100 years, Girl Scouting has been helping each girl develop her personal leadership skills and make friends that last a lifetime. Girl Scouts is also a great place to enhance job skills and give back to your community as an adult volunteer. In fact, we serve 31,000 girl members and 10,000 adult volunteers across Colorado! New to Girl Scouts are the flexible pathways for participation for both girls and adult volunteers. Come learn more about how you can be part of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience by visiting girlscoutsofcolorado.org, calling 1-877-404-5708 or emailing inquiry@gscolorado.org.

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Jessica Anne Calzolari


Samantha Roberts

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