Two Receive Girl Scout’s Highest Honor

On June 29th, Senior Girl Scout’s Aarani Arulmoli and Chelsea Bill, members of troop 859 (a.k.a. “Odyssey”), will be presented with Girl Scouting’s highest honor, the Girl Scout Gold Award. The Gold Award is the counterpart to the Boy Scout’s Eagle Award and involves leadership development, career exploration, personal development and goal setting, culminating in a significant project of no less than 65 hours, to benefit their community.

Only 4% of young women in Girl Scouting will achieve this lofty goal, but the average for the Girl Scout Council of Orange County is closer to 11%. In its 14 years as a troop serving high school members from virtually every high school in Huntington Beach, nearly 25% of the nearly 260 members served by “Odyssey” have received this high accolade. It’s not surprising that these achievers have also been accepted to such major universities as: Cal Berkeley, Yale, Harvard, UCLA, USC, New York University, Cal State Long Beach, University of Wisconsin and many others.

Congratulations ladies, on reaching for the Gold and making your community proud in the process.