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Northern graduate named National Gold Award Girl Scout Kennedy Jeffers was one of only 10 Girl Scouts in the country to receive the national designation this year by PATTI STOKES Kennedy Jeffers, a 2020 Northern Guilford High School graduate, says her scouting experience over the last 13 years has had a lifelong impact on her – and in turn, she’s made it her goal to make a positive impact on others in as many ways as she can. After fulfilling all the requirements to
earn her Girl Scout’s bronze, silver and gold awards, Jeffers had only one other possible scouting award to acquire – and, she recently added that one to her long list of scouting awards, after being named only one of 10 young women in the country to become a National Gold Award Girl Scout. The national award is an honor the Girl Scouts say “is given to Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors whose Gold Award projects demonstrated extraordinary leadership, had a measurable and sustainable impact, and addressed a local challenge related to a national and/or global issue.” We’ll have to take her word for it,
but when talking to this confident, poised young lady, it’s hard to believe she was a shy child who would stand behind her mother when others tried to have a conversation with her.
Kennedy Jeffers
With the encouragement of her mother, Scout leaders and fellow Scouts – “and a lot of training” – Jeffers said she gradually “came out of my shell and started putting myself out there in the world.” As she learned and grew through years of scouting, Jeffers set her sights on earning her Gold Award, the equivalent of the Boy Scouts’ Eagle award. For her Gold Award project, she chose both community-based projects and a global
outreach project. Locally, she initiated the World Changers Service Learning Club at Northern Guilford High School. Made up of other young civic leaders, the club’s projects last year included providing fellow students with information about service projects within the local community, partnering with Tiny Houses of Greensboro to do gardening and landscaping at its Tiny House community, and a Save the Environment initiative. Jeffers also wanted to make a global impact, and for that she researched some of the challenges young women in Kenya have during their menstrual cycle. “When they have their menstrual cycle, they have to stay out of school for up to a week every month, because they don’t have the resources they need. And that affects their education,” she said. With help from her church mem-
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