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On the Wings 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 fly on the wings 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 awkward
flights of the Daisy Girl Scout to the Graceful soaring
of the Senior Girl Scout, it is a flight that is full of
challenges, dreams and opportunities. At each level of
Girl Scouting these young ladies have the opportunity to
spread their wings and fly a little higher, 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 start to flap their tiny wings and take
their first peek outside of the nest and their
familiar surroundings of home and family. They are
not quite ready to fly, but are eager 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 learn how to fly on their
own and their wings take them airborne up over and
around the nest, giving them a peek at world around
them. They venture out as a group, and their ability
to fly improves quickly.
- 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 ready
to fly out away from the nest. While most will
generally still venture out in groups, many will
begin to venture out on their own. Their flights may
be short and a little uneven, but their view of the
world has expanded and changed. There are new
opportunities and friendship to be found as they
expand their horizons. As their flight improves they
soar to new levels.
The girls that flew just a little higher 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. Each of our girls
tonight will receive her Bronze Award pin, a
certificate, a CD of the video presentation, and a
pin and corsage for her leader. We will also present
each girl with a pair of Silver wings in the hope
that they will continue on the wings of Girl
Scouting and earn the Silver Award.
As your
troop number is called please come forward with your
leaders to receive your bronze award. (Give out pins,
CDs, certificates, wings and corsages to leaders, reads
troop profiles)
Congratulations to all our Bronze Award Recipients.
- We light a candle for Cadette
Girl Scouts 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 have
their flights become higher and longer, but they are
beginning to notice younger scouts trying to follow
their flight pattern. Their confidence is beginning
to blossom, they fly a little higher and notice
there are more flying below them and far fewer
flying above them.
The girls that fly a little higher than the rest
earn 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. Service
Unit 5 did not have any Silver Awards this year,
hopefully we will have some next year.
- 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
flying on the wings 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 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 spreading their wings and
flying higher and farther, 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 teaching younger girls to spread their wings and
fly by setting an example for all to see. These
girls have flown higher and reached for the sky.
They soar with grace and fly with eagles. They fly
solo now and there are very few flying above them,
as they have risen above the crowd.
Those very special few have reached their
fullest potential and 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 excelled on the
wings of Girl Scouting, but have left their mark for
all that fly after them, and on their communities.
The flight of Girl Scouting will be forever changed,
as they have been part of it and added their own
special style to it. They have spread their wings to
their fullest and flown to the highest level
possible. They are able to handle any challenge that
comes their way as they leave childhood and enter
adulthood and a whole new flight. These young women
fly at an imposing speed towards the future. There
are no limits for they have soared on the wings of
Girl Scouting. We honor these girls’ accomplishments
in earning the Gold Award while hoping that each one
will continue on the wings 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:
Will all
the Gold Award recipients please come to the front of
the room to accept the Gold Award Challenge.
(all
girls line up across the front of the room, FACING the
audience)
CHALLENGE: We challenge each of our girls tonight 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. Girls
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 teach a new
generation of girls how to fly on the wings of Girl
Scouting. We have 10 girls who are graduating from
high school this year and will have the choice to
continue the flight in a leading role 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
spread their wings and truly soar through life. With
the skills they have learned on the wings of Girl
Scouting, we know they will be successful in any
flight they take. We give each of these girls a set
of Girl Scout Green Wings in hopes that they will
choose to continue on as Adult Girl Scouts. 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 the 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 and join us for
refreshments.
Photos
of entire group and each group of award recipients
(bronze/silver/gold/10yr/Grads)
Kathy
Little - 2004
Music "I Believe I Can Fly" From Space Jam by R. Kelley
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