The Gold Award is the highest achievement within the Girl Scouts of the USA, earned by Senior and Ambassador Girl Scouts. After 171 documented hours, a high school sophomore Girl Scout has earned her Girl Scout Gold Award.
“The Alzheimer’s Purple Project” was a huge undertaking. She attended seminars, had her own table at a Dementia Convention, Designed and handmade 40 Fidget Mats for hand dexterity & anxiety patients with Dementia and Alzheimer’s, designed and created a pamphlet to make Fidget Mats, volunteered at an Assisted Living Center, designed and hand painted a 10 x 20 foot “Memory Tree” mural in a Memory Center that has current residents pictured within the tree, designed a website, had her brochure added to professional Dementia and Alzheimers’ support websites, and learned a plethora of music from different generations and played among the community and memory Centers.
In June 2019, she will be honored at West Central Florida Gold Award Ceremony.
Scroll through the photos below to see the progress and amazing outcome of our new Memory Tree!
