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08/09/2018 12:01 AMGirl Scout Emma Rand has earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest award in girl scouting.
The Girl Scout Gold Award requires girl scouts in grades 9 through 12 to spend at least 80 hours researching issues, assessing community needs and resources, building a team, and making a sustainable impact in the community. Nationally, only six percent of older girl scouts earn the Gold Award. Girl Scouts of Connecticut honored the 70 Gold Award girl scouts in Connecticut who have achieved this honor on June 3.
For her Gold Award project, Rand spearheaded a book program, “Pilgrim Fellowship Youth Book Program,” through which she brought appropriate books to mission trip locations so kids in impoverished areas could have access to literature. Rand worked with her local library and provided grade-appropriate, assorted books to the children on her mission trip. Every year, the Pilgrim Fellowship group will collect books from the annual Guilford Free Library book sale and distribute them on its mission trip in the spring. The trips vary each year with locations including Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Louisiana. Rand plans to attend a college in the fall where she will major in biomedical engineering.
For more information about the Gold Award or how to become a Gold Award volunteer or mentor, visit gsofct.org.