Gold Award

Emily has chosen FTC Robotics as the focus of her Girl Scout Gold Award, which is the highest award available in Girl Scouting. For her project, she is seeking to increase participation within FIRST among Girl Scouts, increasing membership in the Techalongs but also working towards establishing a second Girl Scout team in the west valley, with a long-term goal of also starting FLL teams to feed into the Girl Scout FTC teams.

In the meantime, she is working on a series of nine robotics workshops designed to engage girls in grades 4 and 5, with the goal of inviting interested girls to join the Techalongs when they are of age. Finally, she is developing a robotics rotation that will be a part of Pima neighborhood's annual day camp, exposing approximately 120 girls to FIRST each summer.

Her anticipated completion date for over 180 hours of work is March 2025.