Silver Award Journey
The Silver Award is one of the highest honors a Girl Scout Cadette can earn and helps for the next phase when I work on my Gold Award in high school. Since getting my Bronze Award, I've known that I want to continue Girl Scouts and reach my Gold Award. I started with a plan to work on inclusion in my school after coming back in person from the remote learning period and finding racial and LGBTQ+ tensions had drastically increased in my middle school. I came up with developing pins that students could put on their backpacks to show support for various groups. I even had a plan where all up front costs would be covered through cookie sales and how these could be sold. Unfortunately, after multiple instances of being sent to different people and months of trying to get approval I was turned down. I tried several other attempts to be creative in order to get these on campus but eventually had to give up because every alternative I came up with was not sustainab...