"Girl Scouting builds girls of courage,confidence, and character, who make the

world a better place". - Girl Scouts of the USA

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My childhood and young adult years were spent in Girl Scouts; volunteering in my community, gaining leadership and communication skills, participating in girls empowerment activities, earning patches for everything from financial literacy to outdoor survival skills, and much more. Both individually and with my Troop, I led multiple Service Unit camping trips to Camp Flemming and Summer Camp Morning Star, booking camp sites, providing troops with necessary information, leading activities and games, and providing first aid.

 

I was a scout for more than 10 years in Troop 544, through which I earned my Bronze and Silver awards, the third and second highest service awards in Girl Scouts, and I was a Service Unit Representative for the 49er Service Unit (Auburn and Foresthill, California, part of Girl Scouts Heart of Central California [GSHCC]). Here are further details about these experiences -

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Service Unit Representative (August 2012-2013):

This is a one-year leadership opportunity for higher-level scouts who wish to learn about politics and elections, become skillful at public speaking, take on leadership roles within their Troop and Service Unit, understand the Girl Scout Council, and represent their local Girl Scout troops in the Council governing process. My primary duties were to attend Service Unit meetings (attended by all the Troops in the Unit), get opinions on existing and proposed rules and regulations within GSHCC, and take that information to the Council to vote on behalf of my Unit for the changes they wanted to see within the organization. 

 

My Silver Award Project (2011):

The Girl Scout Organization requires that Cadette scouts complete 50 hours of lasting community service in order to earn their Silver award. For my project, I worked with my Troop to run a clothing drive. We dropped fliers off at 150 houses, posted them on all the local bulletin boards, sent out Facebook announcements, and ran an add in the Foresthill Messenger newspaper. After collecting the clothing, we washed and separated it, and delivered the clothes to a local Battered Women's Shelter, a consignment store that donates its proceeds to low-income families with young children, another that donates its proceeds to rehabilitated men in occupational training programs, and another that donates its proceeds to a women's rights activist group in Africa. 

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My Bronze Award Project (2006):

Junior scouts must complete 20 hours of lasting community service in order to earn their Bronze award. For my project, I partnered up with another girl in my Troop and surveyed the local cemeteries (Foresthill Community Cemetery, St. Josephs Catholic Cemetery, the Foresthill Protestant Cemetery, and the Spring Garden Indian Cemetery in Foresthill, CA) to find out how many United States Military Veterans were buried in each one, and to ensure that they were given proper recognition on their grave markers. We also worked with cemetery management to build crosses, purchase flags, and install piping (in the ground to hold the crosses and flags) so that each Veteran would be honored in the town's yearly Memorial Day ceremony. 

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* I was also a Program Facilitator at Camp Menzies. To see more information about this position, click here.

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