2012
G I R L S CO U T G O L D AWA R D

Lydia Agopian
Alessandra Allen
Tiffany Au
Alyssa Audette
Onycha Banton
Milena Battaglia
Annemarie Beckmann
Kayla Bedeau
Jaslynn Bell
Diamond Bridges
Nicole Canaii
Lauren Carter
Tiffany Carter
Kiera Cavalleri
Victoria Choy
Alexia Codrington
Taylor Crawford
Stefania D'Andrea
Monisha Dadlani
Tyiesha DeJesus
Amber Edwards
Lucretia Edwards
Dominique Etienne
Alicia Fobbs
Mary Gallagher
Makeda Griffith
Maria Hatzipetros
Janae Headly
Destiny Henry
Shanell Henry
Anisa James
Imani James
Eileen Jin
Alyssia King
Katherine Kurre
Ivana Uen Wai Lee
Annie Lee
Rachel Malken
Christine Marten
Katherine Masters
Maya Matheson
Jillian May
Melissa McEvoy
Brittany Moore
Shannon Moore
Catherine Morrison
Chineke Njideka
Lesego Pearl Nkosi
Colleen O'Brien
Denise O'Leary
Josephine O'Malley
Kristen O'Sullivan
Natasha Rene
Letreece Rhodie
Danielle Sang
Victoria Santos
Sabrina Simpkins
Victoria Sinopoulos
April Tsang
Eleni Vallas
Abigail Vasquez
Priscilla Vazquez
Caterina Velazquez
Gabrielle Viso
Tinneesia White-Flores
Asha Wills
Sara Wojtowicz
Lauren Yesko

Troop 4435 – Queens
Troop 1350 –Bronx
Years in Scouting: 14
Her Interests:
Softball; Students Against
Drunk Driving Club; her afterschool jobs at Key
Food and CitiField
Her Plans After High School: To attend Siena
College in the fall and then medical school for a career as an OB/GYN
Her Project: Lydia conducted a yarn-andneedle drive to get materials to run knitting classes for youth, then donated the finished products to those less fortunate.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: To have an amazing time coming together with Girl Scouts from all over the country at Rock The Mall in
Washington D.C.
Years in Scouting: 9
Her Interests: Softball; knitting scarves that she never finishes; brainstorming ideas for her New York Times Bestseller
Her Plans After High School: To attend
Suffolk University, majoring in English with a double minor in German and psychology
Her Project: Alessandra conducted workshops for teen girls exposing the exploitation and discouragement social media pushes on young girls, while running activities to instill confidence in those same girls.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That Girl
Scouts makes as much a difference in the next 100 years as they have in the past 100.
“We’ve proven girls are strong; now let’s show them we mean business.”
Troop 4570 – Queens
Troop 4027 – Queens
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests:
Cross-country; yoga; bicycling; baking
Her Plans After High
School: To attend NYU
Stern School of Business in the fall.
Her Project: To inspire others to make healthy choices in their lives, Tiffany and her partner taught classes about learning to read nutrition labels; raising awareness about organic eating; and cooking simple, healthy meals to prevent diabetes and hypertension.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Scouting to remain a strong community where girls can develop life-long skills and friends.
Years in Scouting: 13
Her Interests: Karate; varsity badminton; volunteering at the animal shelter; Photography
Her Plans After High
School: To attend Queens College and travel around Asia.
Her Project: Alyssa collected toys, towels, blankets, and food for three animal shelters in
New York City and educated her community about the needs of animals in shelters.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That scouting will continue to be strong for at least 100 more years.

Troop 2018 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 6
Her Interests:
Community service clubs in her school; shopping; traveling; Archon National
Honor Society
Her Plans After High School: To attend a
4–year university, majoring in Nursing or
African-American Studies
Her Project: Onycha addressed the importance of intergenerational engagement in recreational activities. She held a board-game drive and recruited youth to play games with the residents of a community nursing home.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to grow exponentially across the world.
Juliette – Staten Island
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests:
Photography; videography; cinematography
Her Plans After High
School: To pursue a career in film and television production.
Her Project: Milena collected costumes and fabric to donate to the Staten Island
Children’s Museum. Her desire is to help children expand their imaginations by enabling them to think creatively and resourcefully through the medium of theater.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That the legacy of leadership and confidence will continue on for the next 100 years. Milena hopes that she can instill the wonderful and fulfilling experiences that she has had in scouting in her younger cousin’s brownie troop so that they can be the leaders of tomorrow.
Troop 2036 – Brooklyn
Troop 2203 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 13
Her Interests: Marching band; Self Image Club;
68th Precinct Community
Council.
Her Plans After High
School: To attend college and study accounting, and potentially pursue a career as an attorney.
Her Project: “In My Own Backyard” was a yearlong project designed to bring awareness to wildlife in Annemarie’s community, including feral cats, raccoons, and opossums.
She worked with a partner to create a pamphlet and a website as resources for her community, and to arrange several park cleanups and a complete park refurbishment.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That leaders continue to volunteer to create troops that help girls grow into young women and future leaders!
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests: Serving as president and dancer for
St. Augustine’s Vessels of
Praise; serving as the secretary of Goddess
(a young women’s empowerment group); interning at an OB/GYN office.
Her Plans After High School: To attend
Howard University in the fall and earn a
Bachelor’s degree in biology.
Her Project: Kayla’s project focused on diet and nutrition. She ran three workshops;two were interactive lectures on the long-term effects of poor diet and lack of exercise, and one was an exercise workshop.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That Girl
Scouts continues to empower women the same way she has been empowered as a Girl
Scout: gaining leadership skills, learning the importance of doing service for the community, and improving her ability to set realistic and achievable goals.

Troop 2018 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 8
Her Interests: High
School Leadership
Committee; reciting her poetry on the WBAI radio program, Perspective; participating in Off-Broadway student playwrights’ workshops
Her Plans After High School: To attend a university to study journalism and media arts.
Her Project: Jaslynn’s project focused on encouraging teens to think before making lifetime choices through education and awareness about teen pregnancy prevention.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That Girl
Scouts continues to uplift young girls into strong young women for years to come, as it has done for her.
Troop 2087 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 8
Her Interests: Softball; music; Honor roll
Her Plans After High
School: To attend college and study music, forensic anthropology, or child psychology.
Her Project: Diamond developed an early childhood tutoring and arts program for students in Pre-K through 1st grade.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to go on for 100 more years of keeping girls on a straight path to their future.
Troop 2087 – Brooklyn
Troop 4253 – Queens
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests: Yearbook committee; Leo Club; cheerleading; drawing
Her Plans After High
School: To attend Medgar
Evers College.
Her Project: Nicole created workshops focused on helping individuals victimized by bullying to cope and overcome it.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl
Scouts to go on for many more years and to continue helping Gold Awardees with their career choices.
Years in Scouting: 9
Her Interests: Managing the tennis team; playing violin, guitar, and piano; participating in the High School
Law Institute at NYU.
Her Plans After High School: To earn a bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and/or
Actuarial Science. Upon graduation she plans to begin her career as an actuary.
Her Project: Lauren was disturbed by the increasing problem of musical illiteracy due to underfunding of the arts. She chose to tackle this issue by setting up a series of workshops to teach youth about classical music.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That Girl
Scouts will continue to thrive and develop girls into respectable young women for generations to come.

Troop 4253 – Queens
Troop 2036 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 10
Her Interests: Stage craft; symphonic orchestra; school newspaper;
Thurgood Marshall Summer
Internship Program
Her Plans After High School: To attend
Bryant University.
Her Project: Tiffany worked with her sister
Lauren to share her passion for classical music with children by facilitating a series of workshops exposing them to composers, musical periods, and musical instruments, and giving them the opportunity to attend a concert at Carnegie Hall.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That Girl
Scouts will become recognized for more than just cookies and continue to grow in size for many years to come.
Years in Scouting: 13
Her Interests:
Extemporaneous speaking on the forensics team; marching band; NASA
Science Research
Mentoring Program; Metropolitan Equestrian
Team; being a New York Aquarium docent.
Her Plans After High School: Kiera is currently attending Sweet Briar College as a double major in mechanical engineering and religion.
Her Project: Kiera worked with her partner to make New Yorkers more aware of local wildlife by creating a pamphlet and distributing it to local political offices, and by organizing a series of park clean-ups.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That Girl
Scouting continues to provide girls and young women with opportunities to discover themselves and the world around them.
Troop 2696 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 9
Her Interests: Pre-occupational development with the Fresh Air Fund, dance, community service, and step team.
Her Plans After High School: To obtain a college degree and eventually a PhD in forensic science.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue to grow and support girls of all ages, and for every older girl to represent Girl
Scouts everywhere they go.
Troop 1350 – Bronx
Years in Scouting: 11
Her Interests: Swimming; track; Girl Scouts
Her Plans After High
School: To attend a
4-year university.
Her Project: Victoria’s aim was to increase the quality of life of seniors in nursing homes by organizing groups of youth to play games and do activities with the residents on a consistent basis.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That more and more girls will join and continue with
Girl Scouts.

Troop 2665 – Brooklyn
Troop 2665 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 6
Her Interests: Advanced art; dance; tutoring younger children;
National Honor Society
Her Plans After High
School: To major in architecture.
Her Project: Disturbed by the fact that at a very young age girls are brainwashed by the media into believing stereotypes about beauty, Alexia focused her project on combating low self-esteem in young girls through self-healing art. She led a series of workshops where each participant worked on art projects and listened to presentations on self-esteem improvement.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue to make a difference in the lives of girls worldwide.
Years in Scouting: 9
Her Interests: Girl
Scouts; soccer; Goddess
Club; PWC Impact Scholar
Her Plans After High
School: To attend
Hampton University where she was awarded the Academic Achievement Scholarship and to major in accounting.
Her Project: “Teens Exercise Your Right:
Occupy the Ballot,” reached new voters through peer outreach and providing voter education materials on voter registration and absentee balloting. She conducted voter registration drives and created a Public Service
Announcement (PSA) about voter registration that was posted on YouTube.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That girl scouts continues beyond another 100 years to inspire girls to grow, discover, and lead.
Troop 4215 – Queens
Troop 3047 – Manhattan
Years in Scouting: 9
Her Interests: Glee Club; writing for the school newspaper; National
Honor Society; Italian
National Honor Society
Her Plans After High School: To attend college to pursue a degree in english and psychology or english and humanitarian studies and eventually pursue a career as a writer.
Her Project: Stefania raised awareness and regarding soldiers’ needs, and the importance of giving back to our veterans. She held a collection of necessary items and sent them to soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: To wish for 100 more years! This organization has done so much to help girls improve the environment, the lives of the less fortunate, each other, and themselves. “I can only dream of girls to be so lucky to have the opportunity to become a
Girl Scout 100 years from now.”
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests: Volunteering at the American Museum of
Natural History and Galli
Theater; being a board member of the
Environmental Club; participating in National
Novel Writing Month; acting in school and community theatrical productions.
Her Plans After High School: To attend the
University of Southern California and obtain a
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting with a minor in film studies.
Her Project: Monisha produced a short documentary concerning environmentalism in New
York City through the eyes of teenagers. Her goal is to spread environmental awareness among teenagers, and she encourage them to take on environmentally healthy habits now so they can be passed on to future generations.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: To have more former Girl Scouts continue their scouting journeys as they grow older and find additional passions in their lives.

Troop 6148 – Bronx
Troop 2696 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 10
Her Interests: Vice president of school gospel choir; tae kwan do; starring as Tracy Turnblad in her school’s production of Hairspray.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college.
Her Project: Tyiesha, along with two of her sister Girl Scouts, organized Midnight Run, where she organized an event and collection of food and clothing for over 250 homeless people.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue to inspire and help girls to grow.
Years in Scouting: 5
Her Interests: Running track; performing in the church choir; performing gospel dance
Her Plans After High
School: To attend University of Albany as a pre-med student, and run track.
Her Project: Amber worked to educate children, teens, and adults about the significance of learning cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(CPR) and how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED).
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to have 100 more years. “What would the world do without Girl Scouts?”
Troop 2811 – Brooklyn
Troop 2811 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 11
Her Interests: Being a docent at the Prospect Park
Zoo; participant in the
Architecture, Construction and Engineering Mentoring
Program; student advisor for the Urban
Assembly Institute’s Robotics Team.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college to study architecture and math.
Her Project: Dominique encouraged people to recycle their old eyeglasses so that they can be used to help people around the world to see better. She also educated her community about various vision problems and the importance of regular eye exams. She collected over 270 pairs of eyeglasses.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That girls who become Girl Scouts will have respect for the
Promise and the Law and not just believe we are only about selling cookies. Girl Scouts is about helping the community and becoming a better person.
Years in Scouting: 10
Her Interests: Piano; being the top cookie seller in her troop; earning the
Bronze and Silver Awards.
Her Plans After High
School: To attend college to study sign language, and to one day teach sign language to parents of deaf children.
Her Project: Alicia worked at the Quaker
House preparing food and serving needy people, collecting and sorting clothing, and preparing and distributing food in the food pantry.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That we double the amount of Girl Scouts.

Troop 2018 – Queens
Troop 2018 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 13
Her Interests: Singing, writing, reading, and volunteering with the mentally handicapped.
Her Plans After High
School: To attend Stony Brook University and explore the fields of Health Science as well as begin my career as an English major.
Her Project: “ Media Savvy,” was conducted to inform girls of how distorted the media can be. It seeks to educate, inspire, and reform the way girls take in all different aspects of media in the 21st century.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That girls can find a way to respect themselves and their fellow women through empowerment in the business world and in their own person lives.
Years in Scouting: 8
Her Interests: Etiquette classes; swimming; tutoring
Her Plans After High
School: To attend college to study dance, and eventually join a dance company.
Her Project: Makeda created a dance program for children in daycare centers in her community. She was inspired by the knowledge that arts education programs are being cut from public schools in her community.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl
Scouts to keep teaching girls how important self-respect and helping others when needed is important.
Troop 2873 – Brooklyn
Troop 2087 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 10
Her Interests: Being a member of the Blue Key
Society; Greek language; junior varsity softball; dance; volunteering for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college.
Her Project: Maria arranged an art drive in her community to help support the art program of the Guild For Exceptional Children, so that children with disabilities can continue to pursue art and feel a sense of accomplishment.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That Girl
Scouts continues to offer young women the opportunity to better themselves and support their communities.
Years in Scouting: 9
Her Interests: Playing varsity lacrosse; participating in the NYU High
School Fellows Program; being a church youth representative and acolyte.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college and study biology while taking electives in political science.
Her Project: Janae targeted unhealthy eating habits and lack of exercise in children. She held three seminars in which she discussed food groups, healthy eating, serving size, and the importance of physical activity.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: To continue to provide girls with the tools and opportunities needed to break the glass ceiling.

Troop 2696 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 11
Her Interests: Modern dance; Lasallian Youth; playing the clarinet, tenor saxophone, and piano; student government.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college.
Her Project: Destiny created a block association on the block where her Girl Scout troop is located. She wanted to unify and improve the community.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to have a huge national event!
Troop 2203 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 11
Her Interests: Girl
Scouts; travelling; shopping; working in her school flower shop.
Her Plans After High
School: To attend a culinary arts school and become a chef.
Her Project: Shannell’s project raised awareness of Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). After losing a friend to SCA, she wanted to offer free
CPR/AED training and educate others about the importance of early detection and defibrillation.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue to teach girls the importance of service.
Troop 2018 – Brooklyn
Juliette – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 9
Her Interests: Singing;, dancing; drawing; reading.
Her Plans After High
School: To attend Morgan
State College and major in vocal music.
Her Project: Anisa’s project focused on promoting literacy amongst very young children.
After meeting 5- and 6-year-old children who could not read, she decided that this was the ideal age group to start with.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl
Scouts to continue to grow girls into wonderful women.
Years in Scouting: 8
Her Interests: Swim team; fashion club; the
Martha Graham Dance
Company.
Her Plans After High
School: To attend a performing arts college and major in dance.
Her Project: For her project, Imani gave free dance classes for community members of all ages. Attendees learned about choreography and basic dance techniques.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: To get the opportunity to meet other Girl Scout sisters from around the world.

Troop 4773 – Brooklyn
Troop 2696 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 8
Her Interests: Ultimate
Frisbee; badminton;
Christian Youth Fellowship
Club; decorating; volunteering.
Her Plans After High School: To make her parents proud, live life to the fullest, and work hard while having fun!
Her Project: Eileen chose to inspire more young people to read by reading books to young children at her local library and hosting a children’s book drive for patients at local hospitals.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That more and more girls will discover the opportunity of being a Girl Scout. A girl can find true friends, her potential as a person and a leader of this world, and most of all, herself, by taking the
Girl Scout journey.
Years in Scouting: 9
Her Interests: Being a peer mediator; honor roll; participating in the Legal
Outreach program; cheerleading; softball;
Double Dutch Club.
Her Plans After High School: To attend
Boston University or Penn State University and eventually attend law school.
Her Project: Alyssia created a neighborhood block association to help her community come together, have a good time, deal with community issues, and bring the youth and senior citizens together.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For a record number of girls to receive their Gold
Award, and make our founder Juliette Low, very proud.
Troop 4027 – Queens
Troop 4570 – Queens
Years in Scouting: 13
Her Interests: Serving as editor-in-chief of her school newspaper; being a cheerleading coach; reading; writing; enjoying the great outdoors.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college and double major in environmental and marine sciences, and in communications with a track in journalism.
Her Project: Katherine organized a park clean-up and trail restoration day in which a team of volunteers worked to beautify the pond area of PFC Lawrence Strack Memorial
Pond. She also built a floating turtle island for turtles to sunbathe on.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue on for another century of inspiring girls to reach for their dreams.
Years in Scouting: 10
Her Interests: Girls
Varsity Volleyball; Girl
Scouts; Lunar New Year
Production Club
Her Plans After High
School: Annie plans to attend St. John’s
University’s pharmacy program.
Her Project: To raise awareness about the environment, Annie gave workshops to children on creating art from recycled materials at local libraries, and gave informational presentations to teens and adults about Wasteto-Energy (WTE) technologies.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That more Girl
Scouts recognize their obligation to protect the environment and “go green.”

Troop 4570 – Queens
Years in Scouting: 10
Her Interests: Playing the piano; working as a
Chinese school teacher’s assistant; participating in her school’s Lunar New
Year Production Club.
Her Plans After High School: To attend
Babson College in the fall.
Her Project: Along with her partner, Ivana set up various programs at the local community center on healthy eating and nutritional planning. Licensed dieticians gave presentations to promote the importance of healthy eating.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For everyone to prosper and to spread the word of the importance of sisterhood.
Troop 4121 – Queens
Years in Scouting: 10
Her Interests: Vocal music; playing the French horn; fencing team; serving as vice president of the debate team; tutoring in math and science at LaGuardia High School.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college and continue to be active in her community through volunteer service.
Her Project: Rachel started the “Teen
Community Connection” project as a way for teens, particularly those involved in the arts, to volunteer by performing at senior centers in her community. Rachel scheduled and planned shows, recruited performers, and directed the shows. To reach a larger audience of volunteers, she created the “Teen Community Connection” website, inviting others to join via Facebook groups and Twitter.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue to raise girls who develop into strong leaders who make an impact on their communities.
Juliette – Staten Island
Years in Scouting: 9
Her Interests:
Volunteering for Habitat for Humanity and the
Transplant Support
Organization of Staten
Island; playing violin; participating in stage crew.
Her Plans After High School: To attend Drew
University in the fall as a member of the civic scholars program.
Her Project: Due to the economic downturn, the number of Staten Islanders that go hungry every year has increased. Christine wanted to help these people by creating a food pantry.
She also wanted to make the community more aware of the issue by involving them in making food donations and having them volunteer.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That the Girl
Scout organization will continue to grow and help girls transform into independent and selfconfident leaders.
Troop 2766 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 13
Her Interests:
Participating in marching band; Thespian National
Honor Society; Tri-M
Music Honor Society; choir; community theater.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college to study vocal performance.
Her Project: Katherine went to local churches and schools to bring awareness to the issue of poverty in local communities, and collected over 250 new and used winter coats that were donated to the Interfaith Nutrition Network.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For scouting to be around for another 100 years so that thousands more girls can benefit from all that scouting has to offer.

Troop 2696 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 8.5
Her Interests: Singing; dancing; acting; musical theater; writing poetry.
Her Plans After High
School: To go to college and eventually go to medical school to become a doctor.
Her Project: To get young people thinking about the potential future careers available to them through hard work and determination, she held a
“Recipe for Success” event, where a multitude of career speakers discussed their careers and how they have accomplished their goals.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: Maya hopes that
Girl Scouts will continue to be fresh and new to each new generation of girls. She believes that there will be many young girls who will need direction and good role models, and if Girl
Scouts can maintain a strong legacy while remaining current, they will provide this for the next generation.
Troop 4888 – Queens
Years in Scouting: 13
Her Interests:
Being co-captain of the girls’ track team at her school; baking; achieving all 3 of the highest awards in Girl Scouts.
Her Plans After High School: To attend the
Honors Program at the University of Scranton on a merit scholarship in the fall, and to major in environmental science.
Her Project: Jillian addressed the issue of low self-esteem in girls as a result of the media.
She developed a program to rebuild girls’ confidence and encourage girls to choose positive influences and make decisions that overpower negative messages and influences.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For the younger girls in scouting to build as many memories as she has in her 13 years as a
Girl Scout.
Troop 1350 – Bronx
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests: Volunteering as a Sunday school teacher and youth group leader at her church; JV cheerleading and softball; Tae Kwon Do;
Girl Scout activities like being a CIT at Camp Kaufmann and a delegate for the Girl Scout National Convention.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college to pursue a career in Parks and Recreation so that she can run Girl Scout Camp one day.
Her Project: Melissa’s project started out as a
“Need To Read” literacy event for underprivileged children, and took a drastic change when she was researching a global link to her project in
Tanzania. She learned that 19 girls per minute were being sold as child brides in Africa so that their families could eat, so she decided that she needed to raise awareness to stop child marriages throughout the world through social media and print.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That even more women volunteer as Girl Scout Leaders and give more girls the opportunity to be a part of an amazing opportunity that has given her countless benefits. She vows to be a Leader soon!
Troop 2530 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 8
Her Interests: Being a part of Mid-Bedford Leos; making handbags from recycled jeans; cooking.
Her Plans After High
School: To attend Spellman College and focus on her goal of becoming a medical doctor or respiratory therapist.
Her Project: Brittany raised awareness around the need for eyeglasses in low-income communities, and held a drive for the Helen
Keller Foundation to distribute recycled eyeglasses to those who need them most.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That more girls join Girl Scouts and are interested in what the movement is all about.

Troop 2177 – Brooklyn
Troop 3047 – Manhattan
Years in Scouting: 10
Her Interests: Tennis; swimming; gardening; stamp collecting; reading.
She has also never missed a Girl Scout meeting in 10 years and has been going to Camp Kaufmann for 7 years.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college and focus on zoology or biology and take part in writing opportunities. She also hopes to join a college swim team and/or tennis team.
Her Project: Shannon was disturbed by the statistics of pet overpopulation and learned that the numbers of unwanted animals could be decreased by spaying and neutering more animals.
She held an awareness campaign and hosted the
ASPCA spay/neuter van, resulting in the spaying and neutering of 40 animals.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That Girl Scouts will continue to grow, especially in her community, so that the 200th anniversary will be even better than this one!
Years in Scouting: 9
Her Interests: Serving as the founder and leader of an immersion program for incoming students at her school; volleyball; being a foodie; serving as the Girl Scouts of Greater New
York 2011 Future Woman of Distinction.
Her Plans After High School: To attend
Princeton University in the fall as an engineering major.
Her Project: SAP: Sugar Awareness Project is an animated public service announcement video targeted at children and young teens about avoiding sugary drinks and choosing more healthful alternatives. She has presented the video to groups of children and young teens, young adults, and parents. It is available on
YouTube and on DVD at the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For more older girls to join and stay in Girl Scouts. With a greater number of older Girl Scouts, the community would benefit from more Gold Award Take
Action Projects and more girls acquiring leadership skills and experience.
Troop 2665 – Brooklyn
Troop 2665 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests: Community service with NOLA – helping to re-build homes in New
Orleans; attending the
National Youth Leadership
Conference; participating in the Middlebury-
Monterrey Language Academy; creating a book bag and school supply drive.
Her Plans After High School: To attend Pitzer
College in Claremont, California.
Her Project: Chineke created a group centered upon creating and sustaining healthy and strong relationships among girls at the Brooklyn Friends
Upper School. By creating a safe space for the empowerment of young women in her school community, she increased communication, education, and stressed the importance of helping each other up instead of holding each other down.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue enhancing the lives of girls in a positive and strengthening way.
Years in Scouting: 3
Her Interests: Volleyball; church youth choir;
National Honor Society; chess club; reading.
Her Plans After High
School: To attend a top college, go to law school, and become an entrepreneur.
Her Project: “Living My Life FREE!” is a program
Pearl developed to help young girls at
Soshangaan Primary School in her hometown of Pretoria, South Africa grasp their full potential.
She did this primarily through math, science, and english education, and by teaching the girls to play volleyball (a new sport for them) and life application skills.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: Pearl wishes only the best for Girl Scouts for all of the work it has done and continues to do locally, nationally, and globally.

Troop 4501 – Queens
Troop 6148 – Bronx
Years in Scouting: 13
Her Interests: Being a hospitality volunteer at
New York Hospital; serving as secretary of homeroom on student council; volunteering as a catechist and CCD teacher; taking part in the
Irish Club.
Her Plans After High School: To attend
Adelphi or St. John’s and major in speech pathology or education.
Her Project: Colleen collected disinfectant products, clothing, writing utensils, and duffel bags for Debre Berhan Zonai hospital in
Ethiopia. She also educated her community on the needs of the hospital. There are only
120 beds for 2.4 million patients, many stricken with HIV/AIDS.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That more girls will take advantage of all of the opportunities
Girl Scouts has to offer, empowering girls and molding bright futures for young women.
Years in Scouting: 9
Her Interests: Being a musician who plays piano, cello, mandolin, and bass, reading; taking part in the
Internet community
“Nerdfighters of New York”
Her Plans After High School: To attend college and study biology.
Her Project: For her Gold Award project,
Denise focused on organizing others to feed homeless people in her community. By joining her friends together along with her two partners on this project, she exceeded her goal of feeing 250 homeless people.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue to train girls to do their best with courage, confidence, and character for the next hundreds, even thousands, of years to come.
Troop 4215 – Queens
Troop 4121 – Queens
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests: Bowling; singing; writing; reading; volunteering at school and in her parish.
Her Plans After High
School: To attend Emerson College in Boston and pursue a career as an author and a guidance counselor.
Her Project: Josephine held a blood drive aimed at young people who were first-time donors, to encourage them to be longterm donors.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue to grow and expand and provide girls with opportunities to experience their dream careers.
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests: Irish step dancing; swimming; serving as a member of the Ranger Reservation
Corporation and the
American Red Cross club.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college.
Her Project: Kristen worked to brighten the days and quality of life for the elderly, disadvantaged, and homebound in her community.
She put together gifts , visited people in their homes, and worked at a food bank.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That all girls have the opportunity to go camping, make new friends, and spread the message of
Girl Scouting.

Troop 2203 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests: Traveling;
Girl Scouting; Sunday
School.
Her Plans After High
School: To attend college to pursue a career in the fashion industry.
Her Project: Natasha educated the community about the needs of underprivileged children in an elementary school in St. Lucia after learning about how many students stop attending school because they do not have shoes. She rallied her community to take action and collect shoes for these children so that they can further their education.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For each Girl
Scout to make her community a better place.
Troop 2530 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 11
Her Interests: Being a member of the Mid-
Bedford Heights Leos club and a cast member of The
Possibility Project; singing in the Gospel for Teens choir.
Her Plans After High School: To attend a 4year college and major in social work and minor in early childhood development.
Her Project: Letreece’s project aimed at bridging the gap between the youth and elderly in her community through the arts.
Youth and elderly talked and shared stories while creating art together.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That more older girls remain in Girl Scouts. Girls that remain are empowered and become the leaders of tomorrow.
Troop 2018 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 7
Her Interests: Working in her school’s anti-bullying program; running on her high school track team.
Her Plans After High
School: Danielle hopes to attend Yale
University and eventually medical school.
Her Project: Danielle’s project addressed self-esteem and positive social interaction between girls ages 3-12. She provided manners and etiquette workshops which culminated in a “self-esteem tea party.” She achieved her goal of helping girls to realize their full potential while having fun.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue to grow and encourage other girls, just like Girl Scouting has encouraged her.
Troop 4121 – Queens
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests: Playing volleyball; arts and crafts; participating in an afterschool writing program and a park program.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college and then medical school to become a pediatrician.
Her Project: Victoria was inspired to change the bad reputation teenagers had in her community in regards to helping and caring for elderly and homebound people. She organized other youth to work with the elderly and homebound to change the community’s views, and let them know that teens care.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: To continue
Girl Scout traditions for at least another
100 years.

Troop 2018 – Brooklyn
Troop 2873 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests: Student government, YWCA, mentoring, knitting, dancing, and Girl Scouts.
Her Plans After High
School: To attend college and become a singer or a computer engineer.
Her Project: Sabrina held awareness workshops around the impact of eating out on obesity. She educated her community on how to prepare healthy meals at home, and how to select restaurants that have healthier dining options.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue to grow young women of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.
Years in Scouting: 10
Her Interests:
Participating in the archdiocesan youth choir,
Hellenic club, and school art squad.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college and pursue a career in Education.
Her Project: Victoria decided to help kids who were in need close to home in NYC. After discovering that a high percentage of the students at PS 114X in the Bronx were living in homeless shelters, she organized her community to provide these students with good winter clothing.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue to create positive environments and programming for girls locally and globally.
Troop 4772 – Queens
Troop 2873 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 7
Her Interests: Playing tennis; telling funny stories; completing all three highest awards.
Her Plans After High
School: To attend Massachusetts Institute of
Technology for science engineering. She hopes to pursue a career as an astrophysicist and work in an observatory.
Her Project: April collected school supplies and donated them to a center where teachers and students who cannot afford them can get free supplies.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to let the experience of Girl Scouts and the sisters she meets there stay with each girl forever.
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests:
Participating in activities at Holy Cross Greek
Orthodox Church; student teaching at
Holy Cross Parochial School.
Her Plans After High School: Eleni currently attends St. Francis College as a freshman majoring in communications. She plans to go on to obtain her master’s degree after achieving her bachelor’s degree.
Her Project: Eleni collected food for the
Bowery Mission. The Bowery Mission provides shelter and feeds hungry and needy people.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue for many more years.

Troop 1350 – Bronx
Years in Scouting: 11
Her Interests:
Compassion Club;
Metropolitan Club; helping out with Girl Scout troop 1351.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college.
Her Project: After being inspired by all of the current media attention surrounding bullying,
Abigail designed anti-bullying workshops for kids in grades 4-8, at St. Theresa’s School.
Through the activities children learned about the different types of bullying and bullying prevention and intervention.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to help as many girls change the world as they can.
Troop 1350 – Bronx
Years in Scouting: 7
Her Interests:
Participating as a chorus member and dancer in her school play and the
College Bound Achievers
College Prep course; track team.
Her Plans After High School: To attend a 4year university and pursue a degree in broadcast journalism.
Her Project: Priscilla organized a community health fair to educate participants on the importance of good health and disease prevention and awareness. She also offered opportunities for people to stay fit and eat healthy by providing a Zumba session and tasty and healthy food samples.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That more people will get the message of how big an impact Girl Scouts can have on a girl’s life, and that there is way more to the movement than cookies!
Troop 6148 – Bronx
Years in Scouting: 9
Her Interests: Marching band, jazz band, and concert band; serving as a senator on student government; photography club; playing sports like soccer.
Her Plans After High School: To attend college and study law, criminology, and forensics.
She would like to become a police officer and eventually a homicide detective.
Her Project: For her Gold Award project,
Caterina focused on organizing others to feed homeless people in her community. By joining her friends together along with her two partners on this project, she exceeded her goal of feeing 250 homeless people.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl
Scouts to continue to build strong and independent women.
Troop 2218 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 6
Her Interests: Dance school; track and field; peer mediation; shopping.
Her Plans After High
School: To continue as a dancer and attend either Juilliard, UCLA,
Lincoln University, or Duke University to pursue a degree in forensic science and the arts.
Her Project: Tinneesia’s love of dance inspired her to focus on the importance of physical and mental fitness. She educated her community on the benefits of exercise and fitness.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue to build a strong sisterhood among girls.

Troop 2696 – Brooklyn
Years in Scouting: 12
Her Interests: Lacrosse; swimming; playing the clarinet; editing her high school literary magazine; being an honor roll student and a top cookie seller for her troop.
Her Plans After High School: To attend a university and pursue a science or medicine related degree.
Her Project: Asha decided to address the lack of enthusiasm around higher education in her community by taking a multi-faceted approach. Asha developed a mentoring program joining community leaders in her church and children in the community, got four non-Girl Scout girls to enroll in the
Girl Scout Scholars Program to learn about the potentials of higher education, and personally developed a tutoring curriculum for one 2nd grader who after meeting with Asha weekly was nominated for
“Most Improved Student” in her district.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouting to continue to be instrumental in empowering young girls all over the world to be courageous and confident leaders.
Troop 1350 – Westchester
Years in Scouting: 11
Her Interests: Singing; acting; musical theater; being a part of the
Honors Program.
Her Plans After High
School: To be accepted into the Swanson
Engineering School at the University of Pittsburgh to study chemical engineering, and eventually obtain a master’s degree in cosmetic engineering.
Her Project: Sara provided information to the general public and to teenage girls in particular about the severity and incidence of teenage rape and incest and ways for girls to protect themselves. She created an informational Facebook page, and held a presentation dinner on the important work that the organization RAINN (Rape
Abuse Incest National Network) is doing.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: To continue to promote leadership in young women.
Troop 4358 – Queens
Troop 5393 – Staten Island
Years in Scouting: 6
Her Interests: Varsity tennis and track; National
Honor Society; serving as the Hugh O’Brien Youth
Leadership Representative; attending Camp GOALS aboard the Intrepid; attending Youth About Business at
Columbia University.
Her Plans After High School: To attend a fouryear college and pursue a career in law.
Her Project: Lauren’s project was two-fold; she addressed the historical importance of documenting the first-hand accounts of World War II
Veterans. Videotaping her interviews with veterans who reside at the Atria Senior Living
Residence in Kew Gardens, NY, Lauren generated hours of footage of soldiers’ stories, some of which will be included in the Library of Congress’
Veterans History Project. She also held a blood drive to help meet the need for blood in her local community.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: That more girls will join Girl Scouts and take on leadership roles in their local communities.
Years in Scouting: 9
Her Interests: Member of
Joseph Hill Academy
Singers, Junior Legion of
Mary and the National
Honor Society for Language.
Her Plans After High School: To go to college and work in the entertainment field.
Her Project: To help unwed mothers, Gabrielle spearheaded a campaign to donate baby items to the Cross Road Foundation.
Her 100th Anniversary Wish: For Girl Scouts to continue for another 100 years