Gold Award Projects Compilation
Members of the WAGGGS-L have been very generous about sharing their projects to show what has been done and to spark ideas. I hope this site will help you "Go for the Gold!"
from Gail Tsuboi
- Two girls relandscaped a major planting area at their high school. Involved upgrading the irrigation, consulting with a landscape architect, getting donations of soil and plants, etc.
- Two girls put on an Outdoor Skills Camporee for Juniors which will lead them into the Council-wide camporee when they are Cadettes & Seniors. 6 competitive events, prizes, etc. Really forced a lot of non-outdoors leaders to get out there in a very do-able way. This Camporee has become an annual SU event.
- One girl with Bolivian parents did a school supplies drive for Bolivian children in the highlands who have almost nothing. She collaborated with a Bolivian womens' club here to arrange to get the supplies flown down there.
- One girl got her high schol into recycling. She picked up over a ton of recyclable paper over the year by putting bins in each classroom and training teachers, etc. When she graduated, she had made arrangements for the local disposal company to take over.
- One girl designed and made a sturdy oak bridge (about 6' long) for our SU's use in bridging ceremonies. It comes apart for storage and is easy to put together. She also wrote a booklet on bridging that stays with the bridge for ideas for leaders. It's really beautiful and has gotten quite a bit of use. Our troop donated money to build it as our legacy to the SU for our 12 years of existence. A brass plaque on the bridge says so!
My daughter, for her Gold Award Project, worked with a stable that specialized in working with handicapped kids.
She shared with them the requirements for the Horse Lover Badge, then recruited a group of kids to work with her, who were trained by the stable.
Then she made contact with a challenged Girl Scout troop and worked with them to earn that badge.
Thanksgiving Dinner for Senior Citizens.
Every year the high school students put on a thanksgiving feast for Senior Citizens. For years, there was a fee. Then a Senior GS decided that it should be FREE. She got everyone's help (including mine in making centerpieces) to donate items and services. That Dinner is still free and has been going on for free for 4 years now.
A girl designed the Children's corner to completion in a newly
remodeled town library. That is something that will also last.
Thanks DJ for your compilation - Work with people in your community government to develop a recreational bicycle route
- Involve your community in an endeavor to clean up a polluted area
- Organize a fair to help people identify volunteer opportunities in the community. Create a directory of organizations that use volunteers
- Start a group at school for victims of violence, after recruiting adults to assist as advisers
- Write and produce a play that causes people to think about a community problem and to change either themselves or their surroundings to solve the problem
- Organize a historical walking tour around the community, using checkpoints and an interpretive map
- Create and implement an erosion prevention plan for a favorite park or hiking trail, with help from a soil conservation agency
- Plan and coordinate a school or community event that celebrates different cultures through art, dance, song, costume, and food
- Organize a drive to collect used radios, and establish a place where the homeless can obtain free radios, batteries and headsets
- Help a new library with cataloging of books, organizing and decorating the children's area, etc
- Develop activity kits for hospitalized children with extended care needs
- Plan a workshop for community members (topic should not support a political campaign or specific group)
- Created a database for her Council's Gold Award recipients called the "Gold Award Alliance" and promoted it - (questionable in our council but would be a Silver Award project)
- Created a song book and tape of traditional Buddhist songs used for funerals and other special occasions
- Collect over 200 Japanese books for the Public Library and produced a children's video to compliment the project
- Organized a bone marrow typing drive that specially targeted the Asian population, which is underrepresented in the blood bank
- Led a research project which assessed the needs of middle school students during after-school hours, and helped design an innovative youth directed program
- Beautified a park by building new fences and map scales, and making plant identification signs. She also helped two Brownie troops earn their "Outdoor Happenings" try-it
- Planned a one week outreach day camp in her neighborhood for over 110 children, and compiled a Day Camp Manual to guide future Day Camp Directors (questionable in our council unless it was a non-Girl Scout camp)
- Designed activity boxes on ecology, eco-action and wildlife. They were designed around the estuary ecosystem with marshlands and wildlife at Alum Rock Park
- Developed a native plants education program including a resource binder
- Working with a historical museum, landscaped an urban garden
- Organized and produced an outreach dinner at Christmas for sixty-eight Senior citizens
Organized and directed a day camp for a church, shelter or other
- organization
Organize a youth environmental program in a local church group and started a recycling program
- Organize the archives of the Campbell Historical Museum, sorted papers and booklets and filed them
- Organize a Seniors' (citizens) Prom
Served in a group home by cooking and preparing special events like barbeques for the children, also prepared food for the himeless and worked on a food drive and helped with programs for Christmas.
Sewed clothing for children to be donated to Temporary Aide Center. Sewed over 50 outfits.
Planned and held an anamition art workshop for Juniors and 3rd grade Browinies. There were sessions on character design, attitudes and expressions, storyboards, zoetropl, flipbooks and thaumatropl.
Four workshops for Juniors that illustrated important concepts in science. The stations included hands-on experiments and projects to educate and stimulate the girls' interest. The workshops were: creating silly-putty (illustrating chemical change and polymers), building molecular models, making goo-yuck (illustrating physical change), coordinating their own experiments ( to understand the relationship between birds' anatomy and birds' food choices), chromatography (which showed the different rate of movement for colors), and participating in relays. This project showed the girls that they can have a lot of fun with science, that they are all capable of understanding some "difficult" scientific concepts and that chemistry, biology and physics are interesting, and are all around them in their everyday lives.
One chose 2 children's stories and re-wrote them into stage plays. With a group of 10 girls ranging in age from 7 to 16, chose parts, memorized lines and practiced practiceds practiced. Whit the help of her troop painted the scenery and made the props for the play and then took it on the road to several pre-school and Kindergarten classes around the Valley.
"Save a Sweet-Heart," an anti-smoking campaign held on her school campus.
One who was a 2nd degree black belt in Tang Soo Do tought a women's class in self-defense.
Collected donations of clothes, sports equipment, games and toys for the "at-risk" teens at a Children's Shelter.
Started the "Fullbright Elementary School Girls After-School Program." The program addresses the issue of getting at-risk girls to stay in school. The girls, ages 10 - 12 participated in a variety of activities each week to help boost their self-esteem.
My project titled "Be Prepared, the Next Generation" entails training approximately 100 high school students in First Aid ann Community CPR.
One project was to make various sized quilts to give to people who donate white blood cell platelets, because these people get cold during the 2-hour process. Also had enought to deliver to Pediatric AIDS center.
Presented a workshop (Abuse and You, You Could be a Victim) for Cadettes, Seniors and Adults to learn about preventing or handling abusive situations.
Worked with Tree People to inform Cadettes of trees in the environment and scociety. Girls had hands-on workshops with Tree People.
Presented a series of games and workshops utilizing sensory experiences to sho girls first-hand what it is like to be disabled.
One taught Girl Scout leaders how to play guitar, "I want all of the younger girls to have the same loving memories of singing with my troop that I do."
One used her interest in photography to put together a slide show with naration about our resident camp and the wildlife and plant life located there.
Thanks to Maria Spratford for this list
- Planted an Indiana wildflower garden in the nature center of a local
elementary school. Also developed realted outdoor activities for the center director to use with students visiting the garden.
- Wrote a play designed to teach young children about life as an African-American girl in the late 1900's. She used her work to develop an interactive program to be presented by a local group of historical performers.
- Added a large butterfly garden to a local park that had no flowers. She researched the plants, got donations from local garden centers, built butterfly roosting houses.
- Sewed costumes for an elementary school's Pioneer Week activities. Researched patterns with local historical group, and got donations to cover cost of materials.
- Moved a wildflower trail at one of our local camps. This trail was being threatened by the development of a new housing addition.
- Compiled information on adoption. Interviewed and recorded thoughts from adoptees. Included different points of view about what choices an expectant mother has. Shared her project with residents of local home for unwed mothers.
- Sewed handbags for residents of the Indiana Girls School (a correctional facility for juvenile offenders). She included items like perfume, soap, and hair ribbons in each bag.
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