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® 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.

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 are excerpts from local Girl Scouts about their Gold Award projects:

Kimberley Beeson

Kimberley's Gold Award project, Be Ready, taught elementary and middle school students how to be prepared for a natural disaster.

Kimberley took the Community Emergency Response Team training and went to the Ameren Safety Fair, where she accumulated resources and information. She presented to fourth graders at Geggie Elementary School, the youth group at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and other groups in her community.

Rachel Broom

Rachel, along with Katie Hermsmeier, held a week-long Multiplication Facts Camp at St. Clare of Assisi to help students learn or improve their multiplication skills.

Rachel taught two classes daily and was in charge of recruiting students to attend camp and handling the registration process. The girls created games like “Around the World” and “Scrambled Fives” to reinforce the multiplication facts in an active, fun way that kept the kids engaged.