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Through the eyes of Girl Scouting
Bronze, Silver and Gold Award Ceremony
Please stand for the presentation
of the colors - Pledge of Allegiance
Welcome and thank for coming today
to honor our Bronze, Silver and Gold Award
recipients as well as our 10 year pin recipients and
graduating seniors. This year we have ____ Gold Award
recipients,
____ Silver Award recipients, ____
Bronze Award recipients, _____ Ten Year pin recipients
and _____ graduating seniors to honor.
As we look through the eyes of Girl
Scouting, we honor those that have earned our highest
award, the Gold, as well as those that have reached
milestones along the way. The journey through Girl
Scouting is a progression. From the first eye opening
experience of the Daisy Girl Scout to inspired visions
of the Senior Girl Scout, it is a journey that is full
of challenges, dreams and opportunities. At each level
of Girl Scouting these young ladies have the opportunity
to see things a little differently and expand their
sight a little more allowing them an increasingly better
view of world around them and their part in it. Girl
Scouts Allows them to Become their very best,
Belong to something bigger than themselves,
Believe in themselves and others and Build a
better world.
Now we have a brief video
presentation to share with you that shows who our award
recipients are and what they have done to earn the
highest awards in Girl Scouting. Each girl will receive
a copy of this.
(Show video presentation, dim
the lights)
We will now light a candle for each
of the levels of Girl Scouting, pausing to honor those
who have earned the awards along the way.
- We light a candle for the
youngest level of scouting the Daisy Girl Scouts.
This is the very first level that introduces girls
to the fun and friendship of Girl Scouting. Here
girls first open their eyes and take a peek outside
of their familiar surroundings of home and family.
So much to see, so much to learn.
- We light a candle for the
Brownie Girl Scouts. In this level of Girl Scouting
girls begin to reach out beyond their family to
explore new horizons, try new things and meet new
people. Here they begin to see things in their own
way, their line of vision moving out and away from
home and family to explore as a group their
community and world.
- We light a candle for Junior
Girl Scouts and the Bronze Award. At this level of
Girl Scouting, the girls seek opportunities to
demonstrate their skills and gain recognition. They
learn to plan, give service to others and take on
more responsibility. These girls are finally
beginning to see there is a great big world out
there. While most will generally still observe the
world in a group setting, many will begin to look
towards a view of life that is all their own. Their
vision of the world is beginning to expand and
change. There are new opportunities and friendships
to be found as they look out and around them. They
are beginning to see themselves and others in a
whole new way.
The girls of this age level with the greatest vision
earned the Bronze Award. This is the highest award
to be achieved by Junior Girl Scouts. To receive
this award a girl must earn two badges, complete the
Girl Scout signs, Earn the Junior Aide Patch or
Leadership award, and plan and carry out a Bronze
Award project of at least 15 hours. Most of these
girls have completed their projects as a group
effort and in doing so have learned a little more
about themselves, the world around them, and the
impact they can have on others.
(read
troop profiles)
Congratulations to our Bronze Award Recipients.
- We light a candle for Cadette
Girl Scouts, ages 11-14 and the Silver Award. As
they enter this level, they are preteens, as they
leave they are full fledged teenagers. Their social
circle is constantly enlarging. These girls begin to
make their own decisions, explore careers, travel,
plan their own activities and try out their new
leadership skills, while helping younger Girl Scouts
and giving back to their communities. Not only are
they looking farther, and wider, but they begin to
see younger scouts trying to follow them. They are
slowly becoming leaders. Their confidence is
beginning to blossom, as they look out farther
beyond themselves, they begin to imagine their own
place in this world.
The girls
whose vision and outlook were greater than the rest,
earned the Girl Scout Silver Award. This award is the
highest award that can be earned by a Cadette Girl
Scout. It is a symbol of accomplishments in Girl
Scouting and the community. Girls that receive this
award have earned 3 Interest Project Awards that relate
to their project and have earned the Dreams to Reality
Award, which is all about careers. They earn the Cadette
Leadership Award which requires 25 hours of leadership
and they complete the five parts of the Cadette
Challenge Pin. Each girl is then required to design,
plan and carry out a minimum of 30 hour Silver Award
project. Many girls at this level complete their
projects on their own, or work their own portion of a
larger project. We give each girl a
pin, with an eye on the Gold Award in hopes they will
keep their eye on earning the highest award in Girl
Scouting as they continue on.
As your
name is called, please come forward with your leader and
parents to receive the Silver Award.
Call
each girl forward individually while telling about her
project. Girl receives pin, CD, and certificate, 1st
girl pins leader and leader receives corsage.
Read Individual Profiles.
Congratulations to all our Silver Award Recipients.
- We would now like to honor
those who have earned the 10 Year Pin. For those who
started as Daisy Girl Scouts, they may have
completed 10 years before they begin the next level
of Senior Girl Scouts. Some girls joined Girl Scouts
later, or progressed further before earning this
pin, but all of these girls have given a decade of
their time, a majority of their young lives to
seeing the world through the eyes of Girl Scouting.
Will the following
girls please come forward to receive the 10 Year Pin:
(call up each girl
alone and give each her pin, and certificate)
- We light a candle for the
Senior Girl Scouts, ages 15-18 and the Gold Award.
These girls have entered the final level of Girl
Scouting on the girl level. Adventure, travel, and
meeting new people, and exploring places they have
never been, have been balanced with expanded
leadership skills, new levels of responsibility and
a deep interest in community service. By seeking new
visions, perceiving things in a new way, these girls
have accepted the challenge to look wider still. By
the time these girls complete Senior Girl Scouting
they are ready to take on full leadership roles, and
be contributing members of the adult community. They
are no longer spectators, but full participants.
They are spreading their vision to younger girls by
setting an example for all to see. These girls gaze
upon the world in new ways and with their own
special and unique vision of what that world should
be. Their outlook has taken them to the top, where
the view is breathtaking, and their numbers are few.
Those very special few that have glimpsed the
top and whose imaginations have allowed them to
perceive things above and beyond the rest, have
earned the Girl Scout Gold Award. This is the
highest award that a Girl Scout may earn. Each of
our Gold Award recipients tonight has earned 4
Interest Project Awards that related to her Gold
Award Project. Each has earned the Career
Exploration Pin and the Senior Leadership Award
which requires 30 hours of leadership. She has
completed the five parts of the Senior Girl Scout
Challenge. Finally each girl was required to design,
plan and implement a minimum of 50 hour Gold Award
Project that meets an expressed need in the
community, and will have a lasting impact on
society. These girls have not only seen the world in
a whole new way through the eyes of Girl Scouting,
but have left their mark in Girl Scouting and in
their communities for all those that come to gaze
upon it after them.
The vision of Girl Scouting will be forever changed,
as they have been part of it and added their own
special style to it. They have made the vision their
own, and expanded their sight to see far beyond
themselves to those in need around them. They are
able to handle any challenge that comes their way as
they leave childhood and enter adulthood where
everything will look different. These young women
look towards something greater as they speed towards
the future. There are no limits for them as they
have viewed the world through the eyes of Girl
Scouting. We honor these girls’ accomplishments in
earning the Gold Award while hoping that each one
will continue to help others see the world through
the eyes of Girl Scouting and become Adult Girl
Scouts. All of our girls have all done an
outstanding job and we salute them. We are proud to
now present our Gold Award recipients.
As your
name is called please come forward with your leader and
your parents.
Call
each girl forward individually to receive the award
while giving a description of their project. Girls
receive pins, a CD, and certificates and pin their
mothers. Leaders receive a floral corsage and pin from
the 1st girl. Read Individual Profiles.
Parents and leader are seated and girl may give a brief
2 minute speech if she chooses.
After
all girls have been presented their awards and spoken:
We will
now give the Gold Award Challenge.
CHALLENGE: We challenge you to accept this award in the
spirit in which it is given. Know that with this award
comes responsibility. You each enter a covenant of
esteemed women who are regarded with honor and respect.
We challenge you to live worthy of this honor by living
by the Girl Scout Promise and Law in all you do.
Receiving the Gold Award is not just one celebratory
moment, but a lifetime commitment. Please give the Girl
Scout sign and repeat after me: (read one part at a
time and have all girls repeat together)
I affirm my dedication, to live by
the Girl Scout Promise and Law. I understand my
obligation, to live with honor, and to lead by example,
because the highest award of Girl Scouting, has been
entrusted to me. I will do my best, to support other
Girl Scouts, on their road to Gold, and to give back to
Girl Scouting, what is has been given to me. I will
respect others, and live worthy of respect, as one
forever bound, to the ideals of Girl Scouting.
Girls
May be seated.
Last, but
not least we light a candle for the Adult Girl Scouts.
These are the volunteers that hold the Girl Scouting
program together. Many were never Girl Scouts as a girl,
but have chosen to give their time to this worthwhile
program. Many others came up the ranks as young girls
and have made the choice to show the world to a new
generation of girls through the eyes of Girl Scouting.
We have 3 girls who are graduating from high school this
year and will have the choice to continue the vision and
give back to Girl Scouts what has been given to them. We
hope each one will decide to continue on as an adult
Girl Scout in some capacity. These girls are about to
enter a whole new world with the opportunity to expand
their vision, and view and achieve unlimited success as
they begin their new lives. With the skills they have
learned and images they have seen through the eyes of
Girl Scouting, we know they will be successful on any
path they choose. We hope these girls will always
continue to look wide, and when they think they are
looking wide, look wider still. We give each girl a pin,
with an eye and the Girl Scout Symbol in hopes they will
keep their eye on giving back to Girl Scouting as they
become adults.
Will the following girls please come forward.
Read
the names, high school, and plans for college. Give a
graduation certificate and pin as they come up.
Please
stand for the retrieval of the colors.
Will all our award recipients please come
forward now. Let’s please have a round of applause for
all our award recipients.
Congratulations!
Thank you
for coming. Will our award recipients please stay up
front for some photos. Please feel free to look at the
presentations the girls have prepared on their projects
that have been placed around the room.
Photos
of entire group and each group of award recipients
(bronze/silver/gold/10yr/Grads)
Kathy
Little - 2005
Music "Through My Eyes" from Disney's Brother Bear by
Phil Collins
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