Congratulations to our 2024 Gold Award Girl Scouts

Congratulations to our 2024 Gold Award Girl Scouts! Our council recently celebrated 41 Girl Scouts who earned the Gold Award, the most prestigious award in Girl Scouting.

Gold Award Girl Scouts Autumn Blair, Emma Perman, and Sawyer Wright spoke at our 2024 Gold Award Ceremony about their projects and their Girl Scouting experiences.

Autumn Blair

Autumn Blair earned her Girl Scout Gold Award for her project, “Autumn’s Free Little Library.”

Noticing a lack of library resources in her school district, Autumn wanted to encourage kids to read more. She provided them a space to exchange books by building a free little library for Sharpsville High School, Middle School, and Elementary School to share. Autumn also hosted story times at the elementary school and gave presentations about literacy.

Emma Perman

Emma Perman earned her Girl Scout Gold Award for her project, “Kindness and American Sign Language.”

Emma presented to over 200 children and adults about the importance of being kind and communicating with others through American Sign Language. She taught the basics of sign language and posted her discussions on social media to reach a wider audience.

Sawyer Wright

Sawyer Wright earned her Girl Scout Gold Award for her project, “Empowering Young Girls Through Fiction.”

Sawyer’s project focused on increasing elementary school girls’ confidence in themselves by providing positive role models for how to handle difficult but common situations. To accomplish this, she wrote, illustrated, and published the book The Four Take on Fifth, a story about four friends in fifth grade who overcome challenges with the help of friends and family. She led a team of volunteer artists to illustrate the novel. Diversity and relatability were among her top priorities in both the writing and illustrations. Copies of her book were donated to local and school libraries, Girl Scout troops, and nonprofit organizations.

Thank you to Autumn, Emma, and Sawyer for speaking at our Gold Award Ceremony, and congratulations again to all of our outstanding Gold Award Girl Scouts!