Gold Award Spotlight: Youth Hallway Revamp

Girl Scout Ambassador Katherine from Virginia Beach has earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest honor and achievement a girl can earn in Girl Scouting.

For her project, Katherine organized fellow members of the youth group at St. Nicholas Catholic Church to paint murals depicting the Salvation Story and Bible-inspired quotes along the hallways where youth meet at the church. She also painted an accent wall inside the main religious education classroom and hung an events calendar for youth.

For her project, Katherine organized fellow members of the youth group at St. Nicholas Catholic Church to paint murals depicting the Salvation Story and Bible-inspired quotes along the hallways where youth meet at the church. She also painted an accent wall inside the main religious education classroom, hung an events calendar for youth and placed strips of cork along the walls in the religious educations classrooms so that students could display artwork.

“I hope that by brightening the hallway with murals and uplifting quotes that I could inspire and encourage more youth at my church and in the community to come to youth activities and grow in their faith,” Katherine said.

The Gold Award requires girls to identify an issue in their community and carry out a Take Action project to address the matter through leadership work. Nationwide, less than 6 percent of eligible Girl Scouts earn the Gold Award, which adds Katherine to an elite group of female leaders across the country with the honor.