May Our Promise Newsletter

Making The Future Brighter

The Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards are the highest honors Girl Scouts can earn. By leading their communities and working on issues they care about, our highest awardees are making their world and futures brighter.

Girl Scout Bronze Award: Clothing Drive

Girl Scout Silver Award: Layla Learns to Scout

Molly Hoffman, Addie Mayes and Kiki Soucy partnered with RedBike Outreach to provide gently used clothing to local families by hosting clothing drives at local churches. These young changemakers set up collection bins, wrote bulletin notices and created yard signs to promote the drive. Once all donations were collected, the girls sorted everything by gender, size and type of clothing and delivered the items.

Patricia Bratton, Olivia Carleton, Mariah Creighton, Olivia Dalton, Adeline Law, and Ella Rice wrote and illustrated a book, Layla Learns to Scout, to share the benefits of Girl Scouting with prospective families in a new way. These young changemakers printed 30 copies of their book and attended Girl Scout recruitment events to read their story, play games, and teach the attendees traditional Girl Scout songs.

Girl Scout Gold Award: Light Pollution After learning how light pollution negatively affects bird migration, biodiversity, and even human health issues, among other impacts, Ella Mackinson, a 2023 graduate of Lindbergh High School, partnered with DarkSky Missouri to develop an educational brochure to earn her Girl Scout Gold Award. The brochure covers what light pollution is, why it matters, and what we can do to minimize its effects. Once she completed her brochure, Mackinson hosted booths at local community events, including the Earth Day Festival, Owl-o-Ween at World Bird Sanctuary, and the Astronomy Festival. Mackinson then shared copies of her brochures to several organizations: Lights Out Heartland and the James S. McDonnell Planetarium at the Saint Louis Science Center. “I had never organized or carried out a project of this scale before so getting to do so was personally rewarding,” said Mackinson. “It’s really inspiring, and I feel this has made me realize I can make a difference with hard work, planning and the right mindset.”