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May 31, 2022

Eight Virginia Beach Girl Scouts Earn Highest Honor in Girl Scouts: The Gold Award

Girl Scouts of the Colonial Coast CEO Tracy Keller and Board Chair Marisa Porto awarded 18 Girl Scouts the highest honor a girl may earn in Girl Scouts, the Girl Scout Gold Award, with eight of the recipients from Virginia Beach. Those honored from Virginia Beach were: Delaney Brown of Frank W. Cox High School; Roxanne Clark of First Colonial High School; Ivy Edwards of First Colonial High School; Gabriella Gonzalez of Frank W. Cox High School; Victoria Martin of Princess Anne High School; Lilian Shuhy of Tallwood High School; Mary Reins of Princess Anne High School; and Hannah Whalen of Frank W. Cox High School.

A Gold Award project is a comprehensive service project that demonstrates a girl’s knowledge and thought processes she is able to apply to a problem that results in a sustainable solution. This award requires Girl Scouts to dedicate at least 80 hours to planning and researching a problem and a sustainable solution. Nationally, only 6% of eligible Girl Scouts receive this prestigious award. To earn the Gold Award, a Girl Scout Ambassador, a Girl Scout in 11th or 12th grade, must identify an issue in her community, draft a plan to address the root cause, and lead a team of volunteers to implement the plans. The project must also be sustainable. Those who earn the Gold Award are eligible for exclusive scholarships and, if they enlist into the U.S. Armed Forces, do so one rank higher.

Pictured left to right: Girl Scout Ambassadors Lillian Shuhy, Ivy Edwards, Mary Reins, Victoria Martin, Delaney Brown, Gabriella Gonzalez, and Hannah Whalen. (Not pictured: Roxanne Clark)

Learn more about the Girl Scout Gold Award at www.gsccc.org.

About Girl Scouts of the Colonial Coast

Girl Scouts of the Colonial Coast, a United Way agency, serves nearly 7,000 girls in grades K through 12 with the help of more than 4,000 adult volunteers in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. Girl Scouts offers a one-of-a-kind leadership development program for girls in an all-girl environment. Since 1912, Girl Scouts has been building girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. To volunteer, reconnect, donate or join, visit www.gsccc.org or call 1-800-77SCOUT.

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