Tessa Burrell earns Girl Scouts’ highest award

Sun­bury res­i­dent Tessa Bur­rell recently received the Girl Scout Gold Award for her ser­vice project enti­tled “Pre­vail­ing Moxie Ther­a­peu­tic Rid­ing Cen­ter Sta­ble Ren­o­va­tion”. The pur­pose of her project was to ren­o­vate the horse sta­bles at Pre­vail­ing Moxie Ther­a­peu­tic Rid­ing Cen­ter, a non-profit orga­ni­za­tion formed to improve human lives through con­nec­tions with horses. She accom­plished her project by paint­ing the sta­bles for the horses, cre­at­ing a pro­file for each horse, reor­ga­niz­ing the stor­age area and label­ing all items inside the area. Her project has pro­vided a bet­ter sta­ble envi­ron­ment where stu­dents can be more relaxed and focused.

Bur­rell attends Big Wal­nut High School. She is the daugh­ter of Richard and Jeanna Burrell.

The Girl Scout Gold Award is the high­est award a Girl Scout Senior (girls in grades 9–10) or Girl Scout Ambas­sador (girls in grades 11–12) can earn, and sym­bol­izes excep­tional achieve­ment in lead­er­ship devel­op­ment, career explo­ration and com­mu­nity service.

The Gold Award project is the cul­mi­na­tion of all the work a girl puts in to ful­fill­ing a need within her com­mu­nity. Gold Award projects, whether local or global, cre­ate sus­tain­able social change and make the world a bet­ter place. The project is more than a good ser­vice; it encom­passes a min­i­mum of 80 hours of orga­ni­za­tional lead­er­ship, crit­i­cal think­ing, mar­ket­ing and net­work­ing skills.

Founded in 1912, Girl Scouts of the USA is the pre­mier lead­er­ship devel­op­ment pro­gram for all girls from kinder­garten through grade 12. Girl Scout­ing builds girls of courage, con­fi­dence and char­ac­ter, who make the world a bet­ter place. Through activ­i­ties in sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy, busi­ness and eco­nomic lit­er­acy, and out­door and envi­ron­men­tal aware­ness, Girl Scout­ing pro­vides girls with oppor­tu­ni­ties for fun and friend­ship, while fos­ter­ing the devel­op­ment of lead­er­ship skills and self-esteem.

Through­out 2012, Girl Scouts of the USA con­tin­ues to observe their 100th anniver­sary. Many com­mu­nity and national events and cel­e­bra­tions are planned in which every Girl Scout may participate.

Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heart­land Coun­cil, head­quar­tered in Colum­bus, serves more than 30,000 girls and more than 9,000 adult mem­bers and vol­un­teers in 30 coun­ties: Adams, Ash­land, Coshoc­ton, Craw­ford, Delaware, Fair­field, Fayette, Franklin, Gal­lia, Guernsey, High­land, Hock­ing, Holmes, Jack­son, Knox, Lick­ing, Madi­son, Mar­ion, Mor­row, Musk­ingum, Perry, Pick­away, Pike, Rich­land, Ross, Scioto, Union, Vin­ton, Wayne and Wyandot.

For more infor­ma­tion on how to join Girl Scouts, vol­un­teer, or donate to Girl Scouts, call 800–621-7042 or visit < www.gsoh.org >.

Posted by Gary Henery on Jun 20 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.