Posted 9:28 pm Friday, May 15, 2009
Tyler Girls Honored With Gold Award
Three young women, all of Tyler, will receive their Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas Gold Award at 6 p.m. on Saturday at Green Acres Baptist Church.
The girls are longtime members of Troop No. 1 and will receive their pins from their parents and from their Girl Scout leader Karin Coates.
Amie Coates, daughter of Kevin and Karin Coates of Tyler, and the granddaughter of Richard and Suz-anne Coates of Stephenville and Kenneth and Faye Thomas of Doc-tors Inlet, Fla., is a 13-year member of Girl Scouts. She is a member of Highland Presbyterian Church.
A 10-year participant, Amie attended or volunteered as a youth worker at the Girl Scout Summer Sensation Day Camp. As a Senior Group Leader, she planned and taught camp badges and activities. She earned 40 Brownie Try-Its, 39 Junior Badges, and 25 Cadette and Senior Interest Projects. In addition, Amie earned the Junior and Cadette Leadership Awards. She has received the Community Service bar and the Cadette Girl Scout Community Service bar. Selected as a Senior Patrol Leader, Amie mentored a group of middle school scouts on an eight-day Cadette Girl Scout excursion to West Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. Amie also planned and led an activity station for younger scouts at the 2008 GSNETX Service Unit 366 Fall Campout.
An award winner, Amie is involved in the Grace Community High School Drama Department, track team (manager) and award-winning drum line. She will graduate this month and plans to major in Family and Consumer Sciences at Tyler Junior College or The University of Texas at Tyler in the fall.
For her Gold Award Project, Amie held a carnival for younger children at Green Acres Baptist church. With the proceeds: she purchased, decorated and filled each bag with necessities for children at The East Texas Crisis Center in Tyler. With the help of many local businesses and Tyler Junior College she also purchased underwear in many different sizes for both children and women, and games and toys for the Crisis Center.
Katelynn Badger, daughter of Mike and Kitty Badger of Tyler, and the granddaughter of John and Kathy Barber of Dallas, C. D. Badger of Dallas, Ray and Sandy Belzeski of Rockport, the late Pay Hoyt of Houston, Sally Hoyt and the late Frank Hoyt of Houston, is a 12-year member of Girl Scouts.
A member of Pollard United Methodist Church, Katelynn has been a member of the church youth group for seven years, the youth choir for three years and her youth handbell choir for two years.
An eight-year participant, Katelynn attended or volunteered as a youth worker at the Girl Scout Summer Sensation Day Camp. As a Senior Group Leader, she planned and taught camp badges and activities. She earned 32 Brownie Try-Its, 41 Junior Badges, and 22 Cadette and Senior Interest Projects. In addition, Katelynn earned the Junior and Cadette Leadership Awards, two community service bars, and the Cadette and Senior Challenge Awards. Selected as a Senior Patrol Leader, Katelynn mentored a group of middle school scouts on an eight-day Cadette Girl Scout excursion to West Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. Katelynn also planned and led an activity station for younger scouts at the 2008 GSNETX Service Unit 366 Fall Campout.
Katelynn is an award-winning member of Good Vibrations, a vocal pop ensemble at Robert E. Lee High School, and the Chorale Varsity Choir at Lee. She is also a four year REL Cross Country team member.
Currently ranked fourth in her class, Katelynn will be a 2009 Robert E. Lee graduate. A two year member of the National Honor Society, she is also a three year member of the Mu Alpha Theta Mathematics Honor Society. She was a Red Raider Roundup Freshmen Orientation Leader for two years.
Katelynn plans to major in Marketing at Texas Christian University in the fall. She will be a member of the John V. Roach Honors College and will be traveling to London for a week this summer with other Honors students and TCU faculty. She is a TCU Dean's Scholarship recipient.
For her Gold Award Project, Katelynn obtained donations of fleece material from Northeast Texas Girl Scouts, Tyler Junior College biology students, Troup Middle School Community Service Club members, friends and family. She taught Girl Scouts, Boys and Girls Club members, Troup Middle school students, and family how to make blankets donated to Project Linus. More than 95 girls attended the two workshops. In addition to making blankets at the workshops, the girls had fun listening to music, winning door prizes, and making blankets for their baby dolls. The girls learned more about Project Linus from Angela Norwood, the Tyler Project Linus Chapter Coordinator. More than 500 blankets were made and delivered to two local hospitals. Katelynn was selected as a Betty Richardson Girl Scout Gold Award Scholarship recipient.
Brittany Nicole Lozano, daughter of Ronnie and Lorraine Lozano of Tyler is a 13-year member of Girl Scouts.
Brittany attended or volunteered as a youth worker at the Girl Scout Sum
mer Sensation Day Camp for every year of her Girl Scout participation. As a Senior Group Leader, she plan-ned, supplied and taught science and art related badges and activities. Brit-tany earned every Brownie Try-It, fift-y-seven Junior Bad-ges, and more than 22 Cadette and Senior Interest Projects. In addition, she earned the Junior and Cadette Leadership Awards, as well as a community service bar for her contributions to Girl Scouting. She was selected to participate in an eight day Girl Scout excursion to West Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado during the summer of 2007.
For her Gold Award Project, Brittany contributed to the literary resources available in the community by leading a council-wide program: an involved book drive, which yielded more than four thousand books.
The products of her effort were given to the Tyler Literacy Council, the Texas Inmates Families' Association (TIFA's) Storybook Program, and the Tyler Public Library. Two distribution sessions were held with the Tyler Literacy Council through which several hundred people in the community benefited.
The 4,000 books gathered made a significant impact throughout the community. Brittany was selected as a Betty Richardson Girl Scout Gold Award Scholarship recipient.
A member of Marvin Methodist Church, Brittany has been a youth choir and handbell choir member and has served as a church acolyte.
A participant with the Tyler Junior College Swim Program, Brittany has volunteered as an American Red Cross swim instructor.
She also has participated in gymnastics, contemporary and ballroom dance competitively and is an award-winning competitor in UIL Tyler Solo & Ensemble competitions and has participated in the Tyler Youth Orchestra and the East Texas Symphony Orchestra Side by Side Program.
Brittany is a 2009 Keystone National High School Home School graduate who maintained a 3.92 grade point average throughout her high school career. She was inducted into the Delta Epsilon Tau International Honor Society in 2006, and became a 2007 member of the National Society of High School Scholars after being recognized by her SAT percentile ranking.
An early admission student at Tyler Junior College, Brittany has earned nine hours of college credit. She plans to major in a technology-based discipline at Baylor University in the fall, where she received the President's Gold Scholarship.
The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award in Girl Scouting and recognizes the leadership, effort and impact girls in grades 9 to 12 have had on their communities.
The current steps require each girl eto earn the Girl Scout Gold Leadership Award, which requires her to complete three Interest Project Awards, the Studio 2B Focus Book and 30 leadership hours; the Girl Scout Gold Career Award which requires 40 hours of career-related activities; the Girl Scout 4Bs Challenge Award which requires 25 hours of developing community service projects; and a Gold Award Project which requires a minimum of 65 hours of leadership and benefits the community.
In addition, all three girls will be receiving their "God and Life," a religious award from their parents and their religious advisor Marsha Layton of Whitehouse.
The "God and Life" curriculum is the final program in the God and Country series. The girls have earned all four levels of this program as they have progressed through the Girl Scout Program.
