Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont is pleased to announce that Abbegail Hurt, Mocksville, earned her Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting.
Hurt, daughter of Kit and Christina Hurt and a member of Girl Scout Troop 41166, partnered with the local YMCA to teach children about fitness and pedestrian safety. For two months, she met with children in the before school program at the Y to run/walk with them around the track before school started. She then walked with them to school and taught them the importance of being aware of their surroundings when walking down the street.
By earning the Girl Scout Gold Award, Hurt has become a community leader. Her accomplishments reflect leadership and citizenship skills that set her apart.
“Earning the Girl Scout Gold Award designation is truly a remarkable achievement, and this young woman exemplifies leadership in all its forms,” said Lane Cook, chief executive officer of Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont. “She saw a need in her community and took action. Her extraordinary dedication, perseverance and leadership, is making the world a better place.”
The Gold Award represents the highest achievement in Girl Scouting; it recognizes girls in grades 9 through 12 who demonstrate extraordinary leadership through sustainable and measurable Take Action projects. After the minimum requirements are completed, the Gold Award project is the culmination of a girl’s demonstration of self-discipline, leadership ability, time management, creativity, initiative and a significant mastery of skills. Each girl must dedicate a minimum of 80 hours to planning and implementing her project, which must benefit the community and have long lasting impact. Since 1916, girls have successfully answered the call to go gold, an act that indelibly marks them as accomplished members of their communities and the world.
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.
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