girl scouts of the colonial coast
Samantha Ellis has earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, the
highest honor and achievement a girl can earn in Girl Scouts.
The Girl Scout Leadership Experience teaches girls to be
good environmental stewards. That is why Samantha decided to also teach her community
how to “leave no trace,” a program that teaches people how to protect the environment by leaving
their area better than they found it. For her project, “Take Photos and Leave
Footprints,” she created animal cutouts for the Virginia Living Museum that
taught the public how to not disturb nature.
With the help of her project, she was able to educate the
people in her community about the importance of not causing harm to the
environment we live in. In addition, Samantha was able to improve her
leadership and communication skills through her Gold Award project.
Her project will be sustained with the help of the museum
using her cutouts during events to help educate additional members of the
community on how to leave no trace.
