girl scouts of the colonial coast“On my honor I will try to serve God, my country and to help people at all times,” was recited by all during the opening of a special ceremony held at A Place for Girls on June 11. Family and friends gathered to celebrate Gold Award Girl Scout Veronica Armstrong’s achievements with a pinning by Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast CEO Tracy Keller and a Gold Award charge reading by Gold Award Committee member Linda Linke. Included in the program, unbeknownst by Veronica, the Maylea Brockington Beasley Love and Laughter Scholarship was presented during the ceremony.
This was the second year the scholarship was awarded. Last year, the Maylea Brockington Beasley Love and Laughter Scholarship was presented to Girl Scout Ambassador Becca Rose in a private moment at her home. With much emotion, Shari Beasley, Maylea's mom, presented a scholarship certificate and congratulated Veronica, saying her Gold Award project had impressed her and was inspiring. The scholarship was created in 2021 in memory of Gold Award Girl Scout Maylea Beasley who lost her life on November 14, 2020 when she was a freshman at James Madison University. She was struck by a motorcyclist as she was crossing an intersection.
Maylea, who was active in Girl Scouts since joining in second grade, earned her Gold Award in 2018 for a project titled, “Education on Aviation.” She connected children to aviation history through a tour of books, based on grade levels, she organized for the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach. Maylea loved all things in Girl Scouting and was known for her kindness.
Like Maylea, Veronica spent most of her girl years in Girl Scouting and enjoys the outdoors, traveling and helping in her community. Veronica has earned all of the highest awards in Girl Scouts: the Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards. As part of her Gold Award project, “Self Love, Spread Love Curriculum,” she researched the stresses teens face, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. She found that they often lacked the skills and education need to cope in healthy ways. She took action with her project to address the most common causes of low self-esteem by creating a middle-school curriculum and hosted it online. She placed several 45-minute lesson plans for youth to use in a class setting or at home.
“I felt through this curriculum, teens could find ways to conquer some of their negative self-talk patterns, address toxic friendships, and change some of the unrealistic goals they set for themselves.”
You can find Veronica’s curriculum on the website she developed and hear her talk about her project in a video she created. https://youtu.be/0fqfhq02vIs
Find details on the Maylea Brockington Beasley Love and Laughter Scholarship, a scholarship open to GSCCC Gold Award Girl Scouts, on the Southeastern Virginia Community Foundation website. https://bit.ly/3mGk0IM
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