Note: If you are recognizing Gold Awardees from more one than one city, please cluster the girls by the city where they live or go to school, and send separate releases, depending on the coverage area of your local newspapers.
If you are announcing a single recipient, please edit the headline and paragraphs below as appropriate.
This release can be emailed to your local media (contact info can be found for OC Register newspapers on www.ocregister.com
– Contact Us). Use the headline as the subject line in your email. If you need assistance, please contact Emilie Perkins, Girl Scouts of Orange County Communications Director at eperkins@girlscoutsoc.org
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MEDIA CONTACT:
Emilie Perkins
Communications Manager
Girl Scouts of Orange County
949-461-8826 (office)
714-747-5854 (cell) eperkins@GirlScoutsOC.org
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CITY, STATE. (DATE) – (Number of girls receiving award) (name of city) Girl Scouts in Troop/s (#) recently earned the prestigious Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest national award a Girl Scout can earn. In earning the award, (names of girls) demonstrated outstanding leadership, organizational and networking skills. A special ceremony was held in (month) to recognize the (city) Gold Award recipients.
(Use an interesting fact and/or quote here from the leader/advisor that illustrating that the girls have gained leadership skills and have become committed to serving their communities. For example:
The girls have been together since 1999 with the same leader, Margie Clark. “I’ve been blessed to watch the girls grow from giggling Brownies to wonderful young women,” says Clark. “They have grown in their leadership skills and become committed in service to our community and the world around them.”)
It’s not easy to earn Girl Scouting’s highest leadership award. There is no shortcut; completing the award’s multiple requirements takes several years to complete, and the final requirement is a significant service project with lasting impact. The Girl Scout Gold Award is a nationally recognized symbol of leadership, and recipients are given greater consideration for acceptance and scholarships to top colleges and universities and advanced military service ranking. In 2013, 149 Orange County Girl Scouts earned their Gold Award.
This represents 7% of eligible girls, which is higher than the national average.
(Put girls’ names, schools and brief description of their final Gold Award projects here. For example:

Kaycee Johnsen , a senior at Marina High School, has personally seen the effects and hardships caused by cancer, and she wanted to help children undergoing treatment. For her Gold Award service project,
Kaycee collected art supplies and made 120 care packages which she distributed to pediatric cancer patients at CHOC Hospital. Kaycee also educated groups of younger girls about preventing skin cancer.
Brooke Gehris , a senior at Marina High School, loves nature. During one of her many visits to Bolsa Chica
Conservancy, Brooke observed how nonnative plants were overrunning the native grasses, and she wanted to help preserve the area. For her service project, Brooke grew 100 pots of blue-eyed and purple-eyed grass and planted them at the nature center. Visitors and area re sidents will enjoy the result of Brooke’s work for many years to come.
“I am honored to congratulate these outstanding girls,” says Nancy Nygren, CEO of Girl Scouts of Orange
County. “Girl Scouts who earn the Gold Award are young women of extraordinary achievement. They are wellprepared to become our community, business and civic leaders one day.”
About Girl Scouts of Orange County
Girl Scouts is the preeminent leadership development organization for girls and the leading authority on girls' healthy development. Girl Scouts has been building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place for 100 years. In Orange County, more than 22,000 Girl Scouts from every social and economic background are developing values, skills and abilities for success in the 21 st century.
According to a recent study conducted by the Girl Scout Research Institute in conjunction with an independent research firm, women who were Girl Scouts as children display significantly more positive life outcomes than non-Girl Scout alumnae. Girl Scout alumnae have higher perceptions of self, higher rates of volunteerism and civic engagement, higher rates of college education and higher household incomes than non-alumnae. To join, volunteer, reconnect with or donate to Girl Scouts, call (949) 461-8800 or visit www.GirlScoutsOC.org
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