Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois (GSSI) is pleased to
announce that Kathryn Stacy from Shiloh has received the Girl Scout Gold Award,
the highest award a Girl Scout can receive.
For her Girl Scout Gold Award project, Kathryn
shared her love of cooking and gardening with the O’Fallon community. “For
my Girl Scout Gold Award project, I volunteered at the O’Fallon Garden with
members of the O’Fallon Garden Club. We
grew vegetables that were then donated to the O’Fallon Community Food Pantry,”
Stacy said. “For the other part of my
project, I prepared recipes that included vegetables from the O’Fallon Garden
and shared the recipes and food samples with clients at the food pantry.”
“By
completing my Girl Scout Gold Award, I learned that in order to be the leader I
wanted to become, I had to be loud and make myself known. I also learned that I have what it takes to
overcome the smallest to the biggest obstacles in life,” Stacy said.
Kathryn is the daughter of John and Kari
Stacy. She is a senior O’Fallon Township
High School. She plans to attend
Southwest Illinois College to major in Culinary Arts.
The Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest
award a Girl Scout can earn, recognizes a Girl Scout's commitment to excellence
as she develops skills and values to meet present and future challenges in her
life. To earn the Girl Scout Gold Award, a Girl Scout Senior or Girl
Scout Ambassador must design and carry out a project that fulfills a need
within a girl’s community, creates change, and is sustainable. The
project must be completed with a suggested minimum of 80 hours of work.
Only about 6 percent of eligible girls earn the prestigious Gold Award.
