2025 GSEM Adult Recognition Handbook

Gold Trefoil Award

Award Description: The Gold Trefoil Award recognizes an adult non-member whose superior contribution created pronounced council-wide impact.

Submission Example:

The St. Louis County Municipal Police and Fire Academy is the training center for all police officers and firefighters in the St. Louis County area. The Academy serves over 43 fire service agencies and has trained thousands of police officers and firefighters since opening. The Academy has also been the venue of Camp Fury STL, a specialized camp for Girl Scouts ages 14-18, for the past seven years. Since 2017, the Academy provided not only the space to run the camp free of charge, but also provided access to equipment, including the Virtra (a multi-million-dollar piece of equipment for training on accuracy of shooting), harnesses, ropes, fake guns, handcuffs, belts, protective equipment, fire helmets, and any apparatus needed to make the program successful. Within the venue, Camp Fury STL was given access to the track, fitness center, classrooms, training tower, conference rooms, kitchen and dining space, and the recently-updated obstacle course. The Academy also provided over 55 female first responders, in a wide array of fields and positions, as volunteer instructors to teach the campers skills such as defensive tactics, rappelling, aerial climbs, search and rescue, handcuffing, and more. The support shown by the Academy to Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri through Camp Fury STL is immeasurable, and we know it makes an impact on our Girl Scouts and on the first responder community. In total, Camp Fury STL has graduated 148 campers from this program, with at least 6 becoming firefighters and/or paramedics and one becoming a police officer. This level of commitment to a single Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri program is deserving of the Gold Trefoil Award.

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