On average, out of every Girl Scout grades 9-12, only 5% will earn their Gold Award. A Gold Award is an equivalent to the Scouting America’s Eagle Award.
The Gold Award is the highest award a Girl Scout can earn. They must do it by themselves, with a minimum of 80 hours of work. It is a project that addresses a global issue, and is trying to fix it in their community.
There are many girls in New Palestine currently working towards getting their Gold Award approved by the Girl Scouts of Central Indiana’s board, but Sophomore Hannah Walker has already gotten hers back and she’s ready to start.
Going from middle school to high school can be a rough transition for many students. You have a lot more homework, sports, and stress.
Walker is addressing the problem of how hard it can be to transition from middle school to high school.
“I am going to be creating a program that helps eight graders transition into high school and learn how to manage their stress,” Walker said.
To do this, Walker needs to get in touch with middle schoolers and show them how to manage their stress, time, and extracurricular activities. She will be teaching them all this and more at one of her sessions.
“I will go through a series of sessions teaching about organization skills, self motivation, and long term goal setting.”
For a girl to get her Gold Award approved, she must connect her issue with a world wide problem. This is the hardest part of getting a Gold Award approved, one might have a problem in their community, that doesn’t make a world wide difference.
Walker successfully found how to connect this issue with the rest of the world.
“It is a real world problem because many teens around the world have problems with stress especially in high school with all their classes and after school activities.”
