Gold Award Girl Scout Rylan Lindley Promotes Children's Literacy Through the Arts for Mount Pulaski Public Library

 

[March 28, 2021]   Girl Scouts of Central Illinois congratulates Rylan Lindley for becoming a Gold Award Girl Scout, a designation she earned by encouraging kids to visit the library and stay connected with books and having a creative outlet, especially since our schools have adapted to iPads rather than all textbooks. Rylan created a piece of art that is family friendly, and will be enjoyed.

The Gold Award is the mark of the truly remarkable-earned by a high school Girl Scout who works to address an issue she's passionate about in a way that produces meaningful and lasting change. Whether it's on a local, national, or global level, Gold Award Girl Scouts provide innovative solutions to significant challenges.

"Gold Award Girl Scouts don't just change the world for the better, they change it for good-and Rylan embodies everything this achievement stands for," said Pam Kovacevich, chief executive officer of Girl Scouts of Central Illinois. "Rylan addressed an issue that's important to her­ encouraging kids to visit the library and stay connected with books and having a creative outlet, -for her Gold Award, and we congratulate her on this momentous accomplishment."

About Girl Scouts
Founded in 1912, Girl Scouts of the USA is the preeminent leadership development organization for girls with 2.6 million girl and adult members worldwide. Girl Scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. Girl Scouts of Central Illinois serves over 13,000 girls and 4,000 adult members in 38 counties throughout central Illinois. For more information, visit www.getyourgirpower.org or call your local Girl Scout Service Center at 888-623-1237.

About the Girl Scout Gold Award
Gold Award Girl Scouts have been changing the world for the better since 1916. Today's Gold Award Girl Scout demonstrates extraordinary leadership by guiding a group of volunteers in developing a sustainable and measurable solution to a local, national, or global challenge. Girls in grades 9-12 who pursue their Gold Award projects commit to at least 80 hours of planning, fund raising, supervising and constructing their Gold Award project. Often the culmination of a lifetime of Girl Scouting, past Girl Scout Gold Award projects have included water conversation initiatives, helping reduce youth anxiety disorders by bringing awareness and resources to identify these vulnerabilities in teens, creating a STEAM lab for rural school district students who had little access to these much needed resources and helping to rescue nesting bluebirds by developing a conservation reserve to help insure their longevity. The Gold Award elevates the

Girl Scouts college admission application including increased opportunities for scholarships as well as provides for the opportunity to join the military at a higher rank than her non Girl Scout peers.

[Text provided by Sarah Cooper]