Louisville teen earns Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting

[Jordan Laura Alvillar]

                     

 

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April, 2013                                                                                           [e-mail]

 

 

Louisville teen earns Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting

 

This spring, a teen from Louisville is receiving the Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting. Kelsey Lee Coker has demonstrated exceptional commitment to taking action to make the world a better place through her community service. The accomplishments of Gold Award recipients reflect extraordinary leadership and citizenship skills that mark them as valuable contributors to their communities and world.

"Earning the Girl Scout Gold Award designation is truly a remarkable achievement, and these young women exemplify leadership in all its forms," said Stephanie Foote, Chief Executive Officer of Girl Scouts of Colorado. "They saw a need and took ownership of helping to develop a solution and took action to make it happen. Their extraordinary dedication, perseverance and leadership is making the world a better place."  

 

Kelsey Lee Coker

Louisville

Monarch High School

Kids Helping Kids

 

“I wanted to educate my high school community about teen homelessness. I teamed up with ALLY Youth Services, an organization that works with homeless teens. Not only did I collect school supplies and GED study books and socks and gloves in my high school for this center, but I also volunteered at the center for hundreds of hours, cooking them meals and helping motivate them to study for their GED. My high school DECA Club is planning to sustain the project. When I collected the items for the teens at my high school I also gave a presentation on the growing homeless teen issue in our country. I am most proud of the impact I had on these teens to improve their lives.”

 

The Gold Award culminates with a project led by one young woman between 9th and 12th grades who builds a purpose-based team to work with the larger community to meet a need. The focus of a Girl Scouts’ Gold Award project is identifying and researching a community issue she is passionate about, developing a plan to address it in cooperation with her team and community members, establishing a global connection with others and providing sustainability for the project. Of the skills learned through Girl Scouts’ Highest Awards, leadership, organization and critical thinking are the fundamentals of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. The Gold Award has been part of the Girl Scout program since 1916. Some universities and colleges offer scholarships unique to Gold Award recipients, and girls who enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces may receive advanced rank in recognition of their achievements.

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. We provide a safe place for girls to explore their world – from science, technology and the environment to healthy living, anti-bullying and financial literacy. For more than 100 years, Girl Scouting has been helping each girl develop her personal leadership skills and make friends that last a lifetime. Girl Scouts is also a great place to enhance job skills and give back to your community as an adult volunteer. In fact, we serve 31,000 girl members and 10,000 adult volunteers across Colorado! New to Girl Scouts are the flexible pathways for participation for both girls and adult volunteers. Come learn more about how you can be part of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience by visiting girlscoutsofcolorado.org, calling 1-877-404-5708 or emailing [e-mail].

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Kelsey Lee Coker