4 Sewickley Girl Scouts earn Silver Awards
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Four Sewickley Girl Scouts from local Glen Oaks Troop 52671 recently earned their Silver Awards. All are currently ninth graders at Quaker Valley High School.
The Girl Scout Silver Award is the second-highest achievement in Girl Scouting overall and the highest award at the Cadette level. Western Pennsylvania Silver Award Girl Scouts design and implement projects to benefit their communities and create an impact that will continue to last beyond their involvement.
Mackenzie Felouzis and Violet Muders developed program materials to raise awareness about food insecurity in their community. They worked in the Fern Hollow Nature Center vegetable garden, cultivating, harvesting and donating food to the local food bank. They helped summer camp participants and other nature center visitors learn about gardening for food and birds of Pennsylvania through educational games, books, models, puppets and more. They built two educational kits to teach about growing plants for food and how birds help in the garden, which they displayed at locations including the Sewickley Public Library, Fern Hollow Music Fest and Girl Scout Recruitment Night. Violet and Mackenzie donated the completed kits to Fern Hollow so they may be used to educate visitors in the years to come.
Reagan Eichert developed a Vacation Bible School for the church she attends. She chose the project after the pastor of her church passed away during covid. She incorporated crafts, lessons, games and music for the children who attended. The curriculum Reagan developed and all the materials were donated to the church at the end of the program so they may use it in the future.
Ivy Armbrust used her expertise in raising goats to develop a goat yoga program for her community. Her goal was to help young people lower their stress, alleviate anxiety and improve their health while having fun learning about goats and yoga. She coordinated goat yoga sessions at her family’s farm, where participants could interact with the goats while doing yoga exercises. Ivy also taught participants about goat care and what it takes to raise them.