Girl Scout Gold Award
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Highest Award for girl ages 14-17
[click here to view 2009 Gold Award Recipients]
Girl Scout Gold Award: The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award in Girl Scouting through leadership development, career exploration, and self improvement and community service.
The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award that a Girl Scout 14-18 may earn. Someone once described the Girl Scout Gold Award as being "what you really want to be remembered for" in Girl Scouting. For many, the leadership skills, organizational skills, and sense of community and commitment that come from "going for the Gold" set the foundation for a lifetime of active citizenship.
For more information contact Mary Elmore-Rice at (804) 746-0590,
ext. 329, or by email at
melmore@comgirlscouts.org
Girl Scout Leadership Scholarship
[click here to view 2009 Leadership Scholarship
Recipients]
[Click here to view the Leadership Scholarship
Nominating Packet]
Girl Scout Leadership Scholarship: This scholarship provides financial assistance for continuing education to 12th grade girls who have been in Girl Scouting for three connective years. Recipients demonstrate outstanding leadership skills, academic achievement, and service to the community.
Girl Scout Leadership Scholarships are awarded annually to girls who have been in the Girl Scout program for three consecutive years, including the current membership year. The Girl Scout must be a graduating senior and have gained admission to an institute of higher education such as a college, business, trade or technical school.
For more information contact Sheila Johnston, at (804) 520-8551, ext. 1
or
sjohnston@comgirlscouts.org.
Teen Girls of Distinction Scholarship
[click here to view 2009 Teen Girls of
Distinction Recipients]
[Click here to view the Teen Girls of
Distinction Nomination Application]
The Teen Girls of Distinction Scholarship is the only scholarship application that accepts applications from non-Girl Scouts in Richmond, Hopewell, Petersburg, Colonial Heights, and the counties of Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Prince George, and Powhatan who hold a cumulative B average. All registered Girl Scouts in Girl Scout Commonwealth Council who are graduating high school seniors are eligible for nomination. This includes nominations from graduating registered Girl Scouts who reside in the city of Fredericksburg and the counties of Spotsylvania, Stafford, Caroline and King George.
The categories for the Teen Girls of Distinction Scholarship are: Athletics, Community Service/Advocacy, Humanities/ Communications, Math/Science and Technology, and Performing and Visual Arts. Past honorees are ineligible. In recognition of this honor, each award recipient will receive a continuing education scholarship. All girls may be nominated for more than one category using a separate form. Please remember to include all extra curricular activities in the nominating packet.
For more information contact Tamara Johnson
(804) 746-0590, ext. 346 or
tjohnson@comgirlscouts.org.
Lillie C.
Branch Scholarship Award
[Click here to view Branch Scholarship
Nomination Application]
In honor of former council
CEO Lillie C. Branch, a continuing education
scholarship will be established to commemorate
her stellar example. One outstanding graduating
Girl Scout will receive a $1,500 scholarship to
be used toward further her education at a
college or other institution of higher learning.
The ideal candidate will have made significant
contributions to the enrichment of the lives of
citizens in her community through community
service and advocacy.
For more information contact Tamara Johnson
(804) 746-0590, ext. 346 or
tjohnson@comgirlscouts.org.
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