Celebrating Our Girls

Every Girl Scout goes above and beyond to make a difference in her community and the greater world. The skills and experiences she gains along the way set her up for special recognition through the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards. We had many girls take these experiences to heart and share with their communities! We’d like to show off our Highest Award earning Girl Scouts for the 2021–2022 Girl Scout membership year!

You’ve got what it takes to build a better today—and tomorrow.

Gold Award Girl Scouts

Mariel Bisher| Cape Girardeau, MO • Missouri Wood ID For my Gold Award project I wanted to help individuals to know the differences between the different types of wood for building, woodworking projects, and burning wood for fires. From simple projects to choosing the correct type of wood in home construction. Today everyone wants homemade, handmade, and natural. Everyone needs the experience of touching, lifting to be able to feel the differences in weights and density, and seeing ring formations to understand how long it actually takes for trees to grow.

Megan Buchheit| Perryville, MO • Connection Building For my Gold Award project, I addressed the mental and emotional well-being of students in middle school. I chose this because I believe that the pressure of being on social media and in school can be very overbearing. I have had some personal experience with this. Students/kids of that age always have constant access to each other and are able see what others are doing. This can cause many issues. Everyone can always use help and friends. I learned that I love to help people learn how to be self-sustaining, and that I love teaching people things and having a powerful voice.

Kira Hagan| Perryville, MO • Dangers of the Sun and How to Protect Yourself from Sun Damage For my Gold Award project, I wanted to help people understand just how dangerous the sun can be. People don't always know all the things that could happen to their body by not properly protecting themselves from the sun. Some people think that it is cool to have a tan and that is causes no harm. A lot of these misconceptions come from not being educated at a young age about the dangers of sun exposure. As kids they may have not been told the proper ways to apply sunscreen, or they may not have been told why it is so important to use sunscreen.

Lydia Hodgkiss| Sikeston, MO • Sports for You My Gold Award project addressed physical health through exercise, mental health by reducing stress, building friendships, developing leadership skills, raising community awareness, and learning to be supportive of each other. Many children are unable to participate in a team sport because of lack of equipment. Kids see other kids playing a sport and they want to give it a try, but because of the expense of registration fees and the equipment needed, they are not able to participate. This project provides gently used sports equipment to children in need.

Emma Scudder| Sikeston, MO • Spice up Felkers Park For my Gold Award project, I wanted to help the local Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts have a nice place to hold their bridging ceremonies. By enhancing this bridge and possibly the entire park, that will allow both Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of all ages both boys and girls a nice, safe place to hold their bridging ceremonies. I've already heard younger troops are planning on using it this spring not only for bridging but for a field day with lots of outdoor activities. I can't wait to visit and see it being used. With the city of Benton sustaining it from now on, I know it will be greatly taken care of.

Grace Wagner| Linn, MO • Bridging to Gold My Gold Award project addressed an old run-down bridge in my local community. With the help of my team, I fixed the bridge so that it could be used. There are many things I have learned about myself throughout the duration of this project one being able to put my plan from paper to reality and make it exceptional and or functional for the community around me. I believe the most successful part of my project was the before compared to the after pictures and whole look of the place after it was completed.

Kayden Barry Troop 71111 Gabrielle Benn Troop 71111 Lacey King Troop 71111 Savannah Matysik Troop 71111 Layla Sanders Troop 71111 Gwenyth Speight Troop 71111 Ava Ragan Troop 71111 Jensen Cunningham Troop 70846 Chiris Allen Troop 70207 Allie Donnell Troop 70207 Harley Friedly Troop 70207 Analiese Horberg Troop 70207 Emma Rowden Troop 70207 Jaden Willingham Troop 70207 Zoey Cotten Troop 71490 Chelsea Howery Troop 71490 Mystical Johnson Troop 71490 Kayla Mathews Troop 71490 Ilyana Schrier Troop 71490 Kiee Wood Troop 71490 Bailey Phillips Troop 70052 Madison Bilbruck Troop 30199 Kaylina Iracheta Troop 30199 Madison Medlock Troop 30199 Madalyn May Troop 30199 Alivia Clark Troop 71777 Keilei Downer Troop 70093 Cara Jacques Troop 10050 Emily Raney Troop 70544 Olivia Reid Troop 10050 Anna Head Troop 70363 Ainsley Roesslet Troop 70052 Hillary Allen Troop 71065 Olivia Ray Troop 71065 Nora Schneider Troop 71065 Eris Cross Troop 71388 Dejia Winchester Troop 71388 Olivia Seaver Troop 71025 Daisy Ernst Girl Scout Juliette Kendra Goodman Girl Scout Juliette Quianna King Girl Scout Juliette Meaghan Ivison Troop 71644 Addyson Moore Troop 71644 Calli Rose Troop 71644

Aurora Adams Troop 10334 Bella Chilcutt Troop 10334 Lillian Jones Troop 10334 Kelsey Morris Troop 10334

Ariel Jones Troop 71388

Emma Robbins Troop 70908

Ayden Cropp Troop 71765 Jurnee Christian Troop 71765 Evela Dimov Troop 71765 Kylley Hayes Troop 71765 Mykah Keller Troop 71765 Allie Knollhoff Troop 71765 Katya Reynolds Troop 71765 Emma Rodriguez Troop 71765 Hailey Torres Troop 71765 Lily Blaha Troop 30199 Natalie Hernandez Troop 30199 Josephine Hockaday Troop 30199 Rhyleigh May Troop 30199 Addison Poe Troop 30199 Kaylee Vaughan Troop 30199

Makenzi Butler Troop 30290 Ashlynn Hilburn Troop 30290 Olivia Pyle Troop 30290 Peyton Tankersley Troop 30290 Elizabeth Young Troop 30290 Lilyan Viebrock Troop 30290

Natalie Meyer Troop 72058

Kerrigan Presley Troop 60028