Gold Awards

Eleanor, Gold Award, In Progress

Expanding Access through Apps

Eleanor has been interested in learning how to create an app and has decided to work on creating an app that bridges the knowledge gap between FIRST teams who want to provide badge workshops for Girl Scouts.  Stay tuned for more information.

Emily, Gold Award, 2024

Girl Scouts in STEM

Emily hopes to have a career in engineering and therefore decided to focus on STEM education for her project.  To do so, she joined the Techalongs FTC robotics team and work on enlarging their impact.  She was instrumental in expanding their footprint in the FIRST community and their successes in the 2023-2024 season.  

As a part of her work, she greatly expanded the team's outreach efforts, offering multiple badge and engineering workshops to Girl Scouts of all ages and organizing outreach events to publicize the both the team and FIRST robotics.

In the off-season, Emily designed a day camp program for over 100 girls who were introduced to basic robotics over the course of a week.  

Emily was awarded Gold for over 200 hours of work in August 2024.