The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award that a Girl Scout may earn. It can set the foundation for active citizenship throughout a woman's life. It is the culmination of all the work a girl puts into "Going For the Gold."It is something that a girl can be passionate about-in thought, deed and action. The project is something that fulfills a need within a girl's community (whether local or global), creates change and hopefully is something that becomes ongoing.

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The Gold Award was Presented to the Following Girls in 2011

Ghislaine Gay-Focused on teaching new skills to swimmers to compete in Special Olympics swimming competitions. She also  published an instructional brochure of techniques to assist parents/guardians of the Special Olympians. The brochure set a foundation for others to teach the required swimming strokes in the future.

Bethany Gibbs-Dddressed the issue of limited resources in poverty stricken countries. Bethany raised enough money to distribute 275 school supply packs and Bibles for families of the village of Aquiles, Mexico  and 4 nearby villages as well.

Mercedes Harris-Sddressed the lack of current reading resources at her high school library. She chose a book collection project to replace many of the damaged, worn and outdated books in the Norman High School library.

Mary Hoke- Through mission projects Mary became aware of the needs of children living in rural Peru. She chose to focus her project on addressing these basic needs by accumulating the needed items through donations of supplies and money for supplies.

Shelby Kirby- Wanted to help cancer patients by brightening their hospital room and hopefully putting a smile on their faces. Partnering with ConKerr Cancer, she set about soliciting donations to purchase fabric for this colorful project and started a local sewing group. Shelby and her group completed 202 pillow cases.

Kaitlyn Linnell-Used her sewing talent to make quilts and fleece blankets to donate to the orphans of rural Peru.  Realizing that the children and families of rural Peru have few basic needs met and that warm blankets are a treasured item, she contacted other quilters and together completed and donated over 90 quilts.

Alida McCain-Chose a project to address the needs for children living in the slums of Guatemala. She made donation boxes, acquired the donations and supplies and shipped the boxes through the group Groundwork Guatemala

Saebyl McDoulett-Chose to do her project on acquainting children with music and showing them the fun of playing an instrument. She partnered with the OKC Opening Night event and offered a booth with musical instruments for children to touch and play, thus exposing them to an up-close experience with music that would encourage further exploration.

Ashley Roberts-Addressed the lack of funding for supplies given to teenage foster children.  Her project jump-started, “It’s in the Bag,” a project sponsored by and offered through Citizens Caring for Children.  Through Ashley’s project, 50 bags filled with personal hygiene items were provided for teenagers being placed in emergency foster care.

Anjali Sawh-Provided fun for critically ill children by sending care packages containing reading materials, toys, art supplies, and various other items to be distributed to the Ruimveldt Children’s Home and Care Centre in Guyana. These packages will offer hours of entertainment to recovering children in South American orphanages.

Emily Schneider-Started a crochet group at her church that would make special blankets for newborns of women who went to free and reduced fee pregnancy clinics. The crochet group would serve 2 purposes; providing a special handmade baby blanket so they know someone in their community cares about their family and inspiring new mothers to remember the importance of their child.

Rebecca Schoeb-Dealt with literacy and the importance of it in the lives of children. She became aware of the Oklahoma City Educare Program that was created to assist children from low income families to develop their cognitive and social emotional skills, and to break the cycle of poverty for a child’s future. By providing children and their families with appropriate books, literacy and quality family time will be promoted for the children.

Michelle Symczak-Worked with Citizens Caring for Children, an organization that offers an array of services to more than 3,600 foster children each year. Citizens Caring for Children offers a program called “It’s in the Bag.” Michelle began collecting small items and letting people in her community know of this need. When all of the supplies were collected, she assembled 77 bags to be given to small children with the help of friends.