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2023 Gold Award Scholarship recipients
Each year, Gold Award Girl Scouts are eligible to earn the Stephanie A. Foote Leadership Prize. This award was made possible through a...
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GSCO blog
- Apr 14
- 1 min
Foster Care in the Foothills Gold Award Project by Audrey VanWestrienen
Through her research, Audrey found that the Colorado foothills are experiencing a huge shortage of foster parents. To increase awareness...
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GSCO blog
- Apr 14
- 1 min
Heartrate Up: Finding the FUN in Fitness Gold Award Project by Madeline Grossman
Madeline addressed the lack of free extracurricular fitness activities for kids in Mesa County by creating a comprehensive fitness...
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GSCO blog
- Apr 14
- 1 min
I’m An Engineer – Closing the STEM Gender Gap Gold Award Project by Rosemary Elliot
Rosemary noticed that interest in STEM for girls tends to drop off in middle school, so she created a middle school club in her community...
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GSCO blog
- Apr 14
- 2 min
Remembering the Superior Historical Museum Gold Award Project by Ella Malm
During the Marshall Fire in 2021, the Superior Historical Museum was destroyed. The process of rebuilding has begun. To benefit the...
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GSCO blog
- Apr 14
- 1 min
The Importance of Donating Blood Gold Award Project by Elizabeth Myatt
Elizabeth planned and ran three blood drives to inspire people in her community to give back and understand the importance of donating...
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GSCO blog
- Apr 14
- 1 min
TGTHR Holiday Gift Drive Gold Award Project by Jasmine Kemp
Inspired by her troop’s annual support of the TGTHR nonprofit, Jasmine created a sustainable pipeline of volunteers through local...
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GSCO blog
- Apr 12
- 11 min
40 Colorado Girl Scouts earn Gold Award, the highest honor in Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts make our world a better place by taking action to address issues facing their local communities. There are no better examples...
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GSCO Blog
- Mar 8
- 3 min
Gold Award Girl Scout focuses project on seatbelt awareness to save lives
Gold Award Girl Scout Amy Bechtel chose to focus her Gold Award project around seatbelt awareness. Amy shares with us why she chose this...
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Paige Leonard
- Feb 2
- 2 min
Troop 67358 shares the joy of reading with their community
Troop 67358 has committed to two service projects each year since they started as Brownies. Each year the girls in the troop vote on a...
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Holly Sprouse
- Nov 28, 2022
- 1 min
Yuma troop earns Bronze Award for educating community on 911 safety
For their Bronze Award project, Troop 80572 from Yuma met with 911 dispatchers, law enforcement, and firemen then made a public safety...
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Heather Gentry
- Nov 28, 2022
- 2 min
Aspen troop earns their Bronze Award by helping local shelter
For their Bronze Award project, Troop 15014 from Aspen made care packages for local animal shelter. For part of their project, the girls...
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Isabel Browning
- Nov 28, 2022
- 1 min
Gold Award project raises awareness of endangered bat species
For her Gold Award project, Isabel created the Bring Back the Bats program to raise awareness about the endangered species of bats. She...
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Chanah Janzen
- Nov 28, 2022
- 1 min
Why shop when you can adopt?
I recently held two events as part of my Gold Award project. For the first one, the goal was to educate Daisy and Brownie-aged girls on...
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Merica McCarty
- Nov 10, 2022
- 1 min
Troop 75980 helps replant the love after Marshall fire tragedy
About Us We are troop 75980. We are based at Fireside Elementary School in Louisville, CO. The Marshall Fire affected our community and...
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Grace Gaeke and Jillian Simmonds
- Oct 7, 2022
- 2 min
The Pink Project helps hundreds of middle school girls
Grace and Jillian from Troop 67481 completed their Silver Award by creating The Pink Project. The Silver Award project was to put...
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Katie Hone Wiltgen
- Oct 6, 2022
- 1 min
Basalt troop earns their Bronze Award
This is Girl Scout Troop 16190 from Basalt, Colorado. We are 6th graders at Basalt Middle School. We, as a troop, decided to earn our...
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Colleen Dooley
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
Silver Award creates a Zen Den for middle school students
Cadettes from Aurora's Troop 65346 collaborated to reimagine Liberty Middle School's counseling office space into a warm and welcoming...
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GSCO Blog
- Sep 9, 2022
- 3 min
Gold Award Girl Scout describes experience mixing with activists from around world
Maya Hegde took part in Inclusive Global Leadership Institute at Denver University I was recently very lucky to get the opportunity to...
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