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CEO Lidia Soto-Harmon Discusses 100th Anniversary – Comcast Newsmakers Interview
Click here to watch our CEO, Lidia Soto-Harmon discuss Girl Scouts 100th Anniversary in an interview on Comcast Newsmakers.
News is Spreading about the 100th Anniversary!
News is spreading about Girl Scouts celebrating our 100 year anniversary!
The Frederick News Post included vintage photos and a timeline history of Girl Scouting in Frederick, MD.
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On display from Friday October 7, 2011 until Friday, October 14 at the Frederick County C. Barr Artz Public Library are the Girl Scout Museum Traveling Exhibits.
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2011 Gold Award
The prestigious Gold Award will be presented to 217 Girl Scouts from the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital at “In Your Honor,” May 15 at Trinity Washington University.
The Gold Award is the highest honor a Girl Scout can earn, symbolizing outstanding accomplishments in the areas of leadership, community service and advocacy. All of the projects completed this year will have a lasting and positive impact on our region.
| “We are proud of the powerful legacy these Girl Scouts are leaving in their community,” said Lidia Soto-Harmon, Chief Executive Officer of GSCNC. “They have demonstrated leadership and a commitment to serving the community. They will be powerful agents for progress and change, and are our brightest hope for the future.”This year’s Gold Award projects are documented in the 2011 Award Yearbook. (27MB PDF) Girl Scouts Seniors and Ambassador, (ages 14-18), who successfully complete the Girl Scout prerequisites may submit a Gold Award project proposal. Each girl commits hard work and a minimum of 80 hours to complete her project. A little over five percent of eligible Girl Scouts nationwide successfully earned the highest award in Girl Scouting. | 
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Gold Award Scholarships
Eighteen graduating high school seniors will each receive a Girl Scout Gold Award Scholarship, an award of $1,000 to assist her with college expenses. The Gold Award is highly regarded by colleges and universities, the U.S. Armed Services and employers. Congratulations to all the girls.
The following Girl Scouts are recipients of the 2011 Girl Scout Gold Award Scholarships:
Megan Amato: California, MD; Asha Anderson: Washington, DC; Marissa Brown: Waldorf, MD; Jennifer Davison: Winchester, VA; Jessica Davison: Winchester, VA; Beverly Dobrenz: Vienna, VA; Natalie Eichner: Arlington, VA; Lauren Ekanger: New Market, MD; Kristina Hosi: Reston, VA; Anna Knight: Arlington, VA; Jacqueline McCabe: Alexandria, VA; , Amy Phillips: Warrenton, VA; Heather Phillips: Silver Spring, MD; Meghan Smith: Fairfax, VA; Katelyn Schultz: Fairfax, VA; Brittany Stinger: McLean, VA; Gabriella Webb: Silver Spring, MD; and Jane Willner: McLean, VA.
Let’s Move! – Perfect fit for Girl Scouts of the Nation’s Capital
On Monday, the First Lady’s Office and the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships held a Stakeholders Meeting with faith-based and community organizations on the First Lady’s Let’s Move! initiative. See the White House blog here.
Lidia Soto-Harmon, CEO of the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital, had a seat at the table with nine other faith and community organizations. She shared the message that the Girl Scout Council is excited to join Let’s Move! faith and communities to end childhood obesity. According to Lidia, “it fits perfectly with our goal to build healthy girls in our communities.”
The Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital committed to the following actions:
- We will increase awareness of Let’s Move!, using our website, programs and 4,900 active Girl Scout troops
- We will challenge our 88,000 members in the tri-state region to earn the President’s Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) patch in 2011.
- And, we will promote the President’s Active Lifestyle Challenge in several ways:
- We will incorporate the President’s Active Lifestyle Challenge goals in many of our successful Council programs, camps and troop activities throughout 2011.
- We will promote participation in PALA at our highly-attended Step Showcase at Trinity Washington University in February 2011, which promotes healthy behaviors and demonstrates physical activities for girls in the District of Columbia though high-energy dance routines, reaching 1,500 members.
- We will also bring awareness to the PALA and Let’s Move, for girls with disabilities, at our national Keys to Leadership conference in March 2011, providing guidance to Girl Scout councils across the country on how to make physical activities a part of our inclusion efforts.
